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  • Senior Delaney Sweet Selected as 2016 Commencement Speaker

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    JJ Akin ’11

    Senior English major Delaney Sweet has been chosen to serve as the commencement speaker on Sunday, May 29, when the Class of 2016 graduates at Hollingsworth Field.

  • Shine: Eric Dugdale

    Shine: Eric Dugdale

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    (Shine profiles celebrate members of the Gustavus community who are shining examples of one of the Gustavus core values.) How do we learn empathy? The short answer is from trying to understand the feelings of others. The long answer is worth a lifetime of reflection. Few would answer, “from the Greek tragedies.” But classics professor…

  • Happy Graduation, From the Top of Old Main

    Happy Graduation, From the Top of Old Main

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    “The young people that found and shall find inexhaustible treasures here, shall exhort their friends to come, seek, and find what they need for a happy life.”—Lars Lundgren, class of 1890 Somewhere in Gustavus history, prior to 1920, it is May and it is 12:30 p.m. Commencement will begin soon. For the graduating seniors of…

  • Shine: Siri Erickson

    Shine: Siri Erickson

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    (Shine profiles celebrate members of the Gustavus community who are shining examples of one of the Gustavus core values.) “I was going to be a scientist.” But when Gustavus chaplain Siri Erickson took an undergraduate course at Carleton College titled “Women in Religion” with Sister Rosemary Rader, a Benedictine nun, everything changed. She ended up…

  • Dwight Stoll Receives 2016 Faculty Scholarly Achievement Award

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    JJ Akin ’11

    Gustavus Associate Professor of Chemistry Dwight Stoll has been named the recipient of the 2016 Faculty Scholarly Achievement Award. The award was presented at the College’s annual Honor’s Day Convocation on Saturday, May 7.

  • Karl Satterlund ’19 Awarded Swedish Language Scholarship

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    JJ Akin ’11

    Gustavus first-year student Karl Satterlund was recently awarded a Swedish Language Scholarship by the Swedish Council of America (SCA). The award will help Satterlund study in Sweden for a semester next spring.

  • Where Minnesota Gusties Work

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    Healthcare, education, government, finance, big brands—we’re there. Gusties are everywhere. But we are in some places more than others. One of those places is Minnesota (obviously). Minnesota Gusties are working hard to make Minnesota’s economy one of the healthiest in the nation. As a state, Minnesota has more Fortune 500 companies per capita than any other, so…

  • Rev. John D. Hogenson ’81 Receives GACAC Covenant Award

    Rev. John D. Hogenson ’81 Receives GACAC Covenant Award

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    JJ Akin ’11

    The award was presented at the annual business meeting of the Gustavus Association of Congregations.

  • Remembering Ellery Peterson ’49

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    Ellery Olof Peterson ’49, a professor emeritus of accounting who taught at Gustavus for 35 years, passed away on November 18, 2015. Peterson had a long history of service and giving to the College beyond his professorship. He set up a scholarship endowment with his first wife, Aileen, and worked with alumni to set up endowments.…

  • Mary Joos Wins Swenson-Bunn Teaching Award

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    JJ Akin ’11

    Mary Joos, program director and clinical education coordinator of the Gustavus Adolphus College Athletic Training Program, has been awarded the 2016 Swenson-Bunn Memorial Award for Teaching Excellence.