Month: January 2012

When Gustavus Adolphus College received a $1 million grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) in the fall of 2008, one of the proposed initiatives was to intentionally provide more scientific research opportunities for first-year students. The departments of biology and chemistry have achieved that goal by offering unique research-based courses during the College’s…

Stephan Koplowitz, an award-winning director and choreographer internationally known for his work on the concert stage and for creating original site-specific multi-media works, will be in residence at Gustavus Adolphus College periodically during the next three months.

Approximately 29 hours after boarding a bus near the Schaefer Fine Arts Center, the Gustavus Symphony Orchestra (GSO) arrived in South Africa in the evening on Sunday, Jan. 22. The GSO is in South Africa for a 13-day tour where they will play a total of six concerts in the cities of Cape Town and…

The Gustavus Adolphus College Department of Theatre & Dance is putting long hours in during the month of January as they prepare to present Stephen Sondheim’s controversial musical Assassins.

Gustavus students build close relationships with their professors during their four years on the hill and those relationships often lead to students and faculty members collaborating on cutting-edge research and scholarly work. The Gustavus Physics Department is one of the leaders in this area thanks in part to state-of-the-art equipment and research laboratories.

After only a year at Gustavus Adophus College, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies Program Director Angelique Dwyer has founded an influential program that is aimed at bridging the gap between the Latino community of St. Peter and the College.

The Gustavus Adolphus College forensics team made a 20-hour bus ride from St. Peter to Austin, Texas pay off as they finished in third place in the team standings at the prestigious Hell Froze Over (HFO) Swing at the University of Texas at Austin Jan. 14-15.

Gustavus Adolphus College will host the 17th annual student-led Building Bridges Conference on Saturday, March 10. This year’s conference, “Unresolved Conflict: Remember Our Forgotten History,” will place a spotlight on the impact of colonization on Native American Indian history and culture in both the past and present.

In honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, the Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies Program at Gustavus Adolphus College will sponsor a free screening of the award-winning documentary Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin on Tuesday, Jan. 17.

Taylor Branch, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author who will deliver the 2012 Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Lecture at Gustavus Adolphus College on Monday, Jan. 16, will appear on two Twin Cities radio stations in the next several days.