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  • Commencement Exercises May 27 at Gustavus

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    At 2 p.m. Sunday, May 27, 595 seniors will receive their bachelor of arts degrees from Gustavus Adolphus College during commencement exercises at Hollingsworth Field. In the case of inclement weather, the ceremonies will be moved indoors to Lund Center for Physical Education and Health.

  • Chinese Academician to Visit Gustavus

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    Professor Edmund Kwok, Ph.D., Executive Vice-President of United International College (UIC) in Zhuhai, China, will visit Gustavus Adolphus College on May 20-21. Kwok and his wife Christine will visit six Minnesota private colleges in all as a follow-up to a visit to China in 2005 by a Minnesota Private Colleges Council (MPCC) group that included…

  • Gustavus to Offer Summer Speech Institute

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    Gustavus Adolphus College and its nationally recognized speech team have announced they will offer their first Summer Speech Institute for high school students August 5-10.

  • Gustavus Professor Selected to Attend Seminar

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    Gustavus Adolphus College Assistant Professor of Religion Thia Cooper has been selected from a national applicant pool to attend one of 27 summer study opportunities supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). The NEH is a federal agency that each summer supports seminars and institutes at colleges and universities so that teachers can…

  • Rare Corpse Flower Draws More than 7,000 Visitors

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    A Titan Arum or Amorphophallus titanum, otherwise known as a Corpse Flower, drew more than 7,000 visitors to the Gustavus Adolphus College Department of Biology’s greenhouse during a four day period.

  • Gustavus Professor Named Associate Provost at Cornish College of the Arts

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    Gustavus Adolphus College Associate Professor of German Jenifer Ward has been named Associate Provost at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, Wash. Ward leaves Gustavus after joining the faculty in 1995. She will begin her new duties at Cornish on July 15.

  • Braun Accepts Position at Augustana College

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    Gustavus Adolphus College Associate Dean Mark Braun has been appointed Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the College at Augustana College in Sioux Falls, S.D. Braun will begin his new duties on August 1.

  • Gustavus Chooses Reading in Common Book

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    Gustavus Adolphus College has selected Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder as its Reading in Common book for 2007-08. A non-fiction narrative, the book follows Farmer from his work at Harvard University to work across the globe in Haiti, Russia, and other…

  • Gustavus Alumna Receives Prestigious Fellowship

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    Gustavus alumna Kelly Younge was recently awarded a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship. Younge graduated from Gustavus in 2005 with a bachelor’s degree in physics, and is currently in the doctoral program in physics at the University of Michigan.

  • Gustavus Theatre presents the <i>Tempest</i>

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    Gustavus Adolphus College’s Theatre and Dance Department will present the Tempest from May 9-12. The production coincides with the 75th anniversary of theatre at the college, along with a farewell to Professor of Theatre and Dance Dr. Rob Gardner, who is retiring from full-time teaching at the college this year.