Author: Matt Thomas ’00

An eclectic and impressive group of professional singers and dancers will appear at Gustavus on Sunday, Feb. 26 to help the College celebrate its first Brazilian Carnival event. Sponsored by the Organization of Latin American and Spanish Cultures (OLAS), this free event which is open to the public will take place between 6-9:30 p.m. in…

Gustavus Adolphus College junior Ally Voss was recently notified that she is the recipient of a Critical Language Scholarship for the summer of 2012. A program of the United States Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, the program offers intensive summer language institutes overseas in 13 critical need foreign languages.

Building on the success of the College’s Summer Speech Institute, Gustavus Adolphus College will expand its summer academic camp offerings, beginning in the summer of 2012. Summer programs will be offered in the areas of music, nursing, spoken word and poetry, and speech and debate.

The Gustavus Adolphus College forensics team won its fourth Minnesota Collegiate Forensics Association state championship on Sunday, Feb. 19 at Bethel University in Arden Hills, Minn. The Gusties won the overall team sweepstakes by totaling 494 points to beat its closest competitor by 161 points.

The Gustavus Adolphus College women’s swimming and diving team captured its third consecutive MIAC Championship over the weekend by compiling 687 points during the three-day event at the University of Minnesota Aquatic Center.

The Gustavus women’s basketball team will host its Play 4Kay Breast Cancer Awareness game Saturday, Feb. 18 at 1 p.m. against Bethel University. Funds from tickets purchased by those wearing pink will be donated to the Kay Yow Cancer Fund.

The Hillstrom Museum of Art at Gustavus Adolphus College will open two concurrent exhibitions on Monday, Feb. 20, including Reflections & Undercurrents: Ernest Roth and Printmaking in Venice, 1900-1940, and Now and Then: Works by Studio Art Faculty, Past and Present. They will remain on view through April 22 and are free and open to…

Dozens of Gustavus Adolphus College students spent the weekend of Feb. 11-12 volunteering and helping to raise money for Special Olympics Minnesota.

Gustavus Adolphus College will welcome Minnesota author and poet Angela Shannon to campus for a poetry reading on Thursday, Feb. 23. Shannon will read from her selection of poems between 7-9 p.m. in the Melva Lind Interpretive Center.