Author: Matt Thomas ’00

Gustavus Adolphus College Chaplain Rachel Larson will speak at the annual George Hall Lecture at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 15 in the President’s Dining Room. Larson’s talk is titled “Ministry: A Sacred Spiral,” and is free and open to the public.

A section of the Linnaeus Arboretum at Gustavus Adolphus College will be dedicated and named the Charles & Harriet Mason Deciduous Woods at a public ceremony at 5 p.m. Friday, May 11, in honor of longtime Gustavus employees and Arboretum supporters Charles and Harriet Mason.

Elizabeth Baer, professor of English and African Studies at Gustavus Adolphus College, received the 2012 Faculty Scholarly Achievement Award on May 5 at the College’s Honors Day Convocation.

Five students and two student-led events will be recognized Wednesday, May 9 at the annual Paul Magnuson Student Leadership and Service Awards Program at Gustavus Adolphus College. The awards reception will take place from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Heritage Banquet Room in the C. Charles Jackson Campus Center.

The Swedish Council of America has named Gustavus Adolphus College junior Dawn Comstock as the winner of the Glenn T. Seaborg Science Award for 2012. The award will allow Comstock to travel to Sweden in December and attend the Stockholm International Youth Science Seminar as well as several events during Nobel Prize Week.

The Mankato Clinic Foundation has awarded Gustavus Adolphus College a $5,000 grant to support the development and implementation of an innovative peer-group wellbeing coaching initiative at the College. The initiative is a key component of a new comprehensive campus-wide Wellbeing Initiative that the College plans to implement beginning in the Fall of 2012.

Gustavus Adolphus College will hold its fifth annual Celebration of Creative Inquiry from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, May 4 in the banquet rooms of the C. Charles Jackson Campus Center. This campus-wide forum is a way for students to publicly share their research and scholarship from the current academic year.

Take a moment to watch this video, produced by Kyia Knutson ’12, to reflect back on some of the things that happened on campus during the month of April.

Gustavus Adolphus College sophomore Megan Wika ’14 has been awarded a scholarship from the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD)/German Academic Exchange Service that will allow her to study in Freiburg, Germany next fall through the IES Environmental Studies and Sustainability Program.