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Gustavus Adolphus College President Rebecca Bergman Announces Retirement
President Rebecca M. Bergman will remain with Gustavus Adolphus through the 2024-25 academic year. Gustavus Adolphus College President Rebecca M. Bergman announced today that she plans to retire in summer 2025 after leading the liberal arts college in Saint Peter, Minnesota, for 11 years. “The opportunity to serve the Gustavus community has been the highest […]
Gustavus BMB Major Earns Prestigious Accreditation
Gustavus is one of only nine colleges in Minnesota to receive the ASBMB distinction. The Gustavus Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (BMB) Program recently learned that it has been accredited by the American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB), the field’s professional organization. ASBMB accreditation is a national distinction, rarely bestowed, that will be recognized […]
Christmas in Christ Chapel Marks 50 Years at Gustavus
Written by Alex Ogle ‘27 As the season turns toward winter and the days grow shorter, hundreds of Gustavus students, faculty, and staff work tirelessly to gift the world the remarkable celebration of Christmas in Christ Chapel. This has become a widely loved tradition that has been bringing the community together for half of a […]
Gustie Summer Employment Secrets: Stay Flexible
Elliot Steeves '24 ended up learning a whole lot about a whole new area. Summer is often an occasion for college students to try and nudge their way into a career path. Biology students conduct on-campus research, while music students begin to work on teaching projects. And because of this time, and what it means […]
Gustavus To Celebrate Annual Festival of St. Lucia
One sophomore woman will be crowned St. Lucia in the 82nd annual celebration.
Gustavus recognized for student voter participation
Building upon the school’s impressive track record of robust student voter participation, Gustavus has been recognized as one of 394 colleges nationwide recognized for its efforts to increase nonpartisan democratic engagement in the 2022 elections. The national ALL IN Most Engaged Campuses for College Student Voting campaign helps colleges and universities make intentional efforts to increase student […]
Gustavus Gears Up for Christmas in Christ Chapel
As the first snows of the year surround us, the Gustavus campus is lively with preparations for this year’s Christmas in Christ Chapel. While students, faculty, and staff put in the countless hours of rehearsal that this service requires – as they have for nearly 50 years – this is a time to reflect on […]
Gusties Raise $500K for First-Generation Students in One Evening
First-generation Gusties Brenna Germscheid ’23, Anahi Rubalcava Ortiz ’23, and Cristina Sirbu ’24 with Gus In a welcome return to in-person philanthropy, A Royal Affair—the Gustie Gala raised more than $500,000 on Saturday, Nov. 12 to support scholarships for first-generation Gustavus students, and another $150,000 for the Gustavus Library Associates (GLA) Endowment Fund. The Folke […]
Meet Kong Yang ’23, Japanese Studies Major and Army Serviceman
Kong Yang on reconnaissance duty in Somalia, 2020. When Kong Yang was a high school senior in Maplewood, he began to think about ways to pay for college. Born in Thailand, he came to the Twin Cities with his family as a child and became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2016. Around that time, his […]
Summer Research Kicks Off at Gustavus
This year, over 60 Gusties are conducting summer research projects, collaborating with top-tier professors in a small liberal arts environment.