Author: Matt Thomas ’00

The Wellbeing Initiative at Gustavus Adolphus College has received two separate grants totaling $6,500 to help fund its new resilience program, “Bounce.” The Mankato Clinic Foundation awarded the program $4,000, while the Mansergh-Stuessy Fund for College Innovation provided an additional $2,500.

The Hillstrom Museum of Art at Gustavus Adolphus College will present three new exhibitions beginning on Monday, Feb. 16. Imagined Worlds, Large and Small: the Photographs of Sarah Hobbs and Lori Nix, will be on view through April 19, concurrently with two additional exhibitions, In Memory of Richard L. Hillstrom, 1915-2014, and FOCUS IN/ON: Everett…

Gustavus Adolphus College will host its second Hispanic Film Festival over the course of six weeks during February and March. Screenings will take place at 7 p.m. in Wallenberg Auditorium on six successive Mondays beginning on Feb. 16 and concluding on March 23. All six screenings are free and open to the public. The schedule…

Imagine waking up every morning and going to work surrounded by some of the foremost scientists and researchers in the world. That is the situation Gustavus Adolphus College alumnus Ian Keesey ’04 finds himself in as a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology (MPI-CE) in Jena, Germany.

The 20th annual Building Bridges Conference at Gustavus Adolphus College will be held on Saturday, March 7, and is titled “Hidden in Plain Sight: Recognizing and Rejecting Rape Culture.” Keynote speakers for this year’s conference include Jessica Valenti and Zerlina Maxwell.

Steve Wilkinson, longtime men’s tennis coach at Gustavus Adolphus College and founder of Tennis and Life Camps, passed away on Wednesday, January 21 at the age of 73 after courageously living with cancer for nearly seven years. Wilkinson spent 39 years (1971-2009) at the helm of the Gustavus men’s tennis program. His teams compiled 929…

U.S. News and World Report recently used exclusive data to analyze how successful colleges and universities are at graduating low-income students. Gustavus was highlighted in the article as one of 29 “Top Performers”—schools where Pell Grant students are graduating at or close to the same rate as the overall student body.