Author: Matt Thomas ’00

With election day (Nov. 4) quickly approaching, Gustavus Adolphus College will host a public conversation between Minnesota House District 19A candidates Clark Johnson and Kim Spears at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 30, in the Three Crowns Room, located in the C. Charles Jackson Campus Center. The event is free to attend and open to the…

Dr. James Kakalios is not your average physicist and his public lectures are anything but average. Kakalios will visit Gustavus Adolphus College on Wednesday, Oct. 29 to deliver his popular lecture, “The Physics of Superhero Comics” at 7:30 p.m. in Wallenberg Auditorium. The talk is free and open to the public.

Gustavus students Lars Ericson, McKenna Jones, Jessica Ries, and Emilie Scott are currently student-teaching in Sotogrande, Spain at the Sotogrande International School. The opportunity to travel abroad and fulfill student-teaching requirements has been popular among education majors.

Dr. Stephen Zunes, one of the country’s leading scholars on U.S. Middle East policy and of strategic nonviolent action, will deliver Gustavus Adolphus College’s annual Raoul Wallenberg Memorial Lecture at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 28 in the Nobel Hall of Science’s Wallenberg Auditorium.

Gustavus Adolphus College has been awarded a three-year, $100,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The College plans to use the funding to support the development of January term courses for students in their second year.

Gustavus Adolphus College Professor of English Joyce Sutphen was a guest on Garrison Keillor’s live radio variety show, A Prairie Home Companion, on Saturday, Oct. 18. Keillor recited Sutphen’s poem “Girl on a Tractor”, while Sutphen read several of her poems including “Autumn Again”, “My Legendary Father”, “A Dream of Empty Fields”, and “Say It”.

The Gustavus Adolphus College football team is off to a 6-0 start for the first time since 1987–the last year that the program won the MIAC title. The team’s schedule gets significantly tougher starting this Saturday when the Gusties will host No. 22 ranked St. John’s at 1 p.m. at Hollingsworth Field.

With the 50th Nobel Conference now in the history books, Gustavus Adolphus College now looks ahead to the 51st Nobel Conference, which will be titled “Addiction: Exploring the Science and Experience of an Equal Opportunity Condition,” and will take place Oct. 6-7, 2015.

The Nobel Conference gives Gustavus Adolphus College students unique access to some of the most renowned scientists in the world. While all Gustavus students have the luxury of attending the Conference during their four years, a select handful of students get the opportunity to serve as student hosts for one of the speakers while they…

September was a busy month at Gustavus Adolphus College as events included Freshmen Move-in Day, Fair Trade Fashion Show, Involvement Fair, Reading in Common Lecture, Nobel Conference Preview Event, Special Olympics Flag Football, Homecoming Window Painting, and a new exhibit in the Hillstrom Museum of Art. You can relive all of these September moments by…