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  • SHINE: “Gustavus doesn’t let you passively experience it.”

    SHINE: “Gustavus doesn’t let you passively experience it.”

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    This Gustie alum lived her liberal arts dream. Now she spreads the good word to prospective students and families.

  • SHINE: She was the first. Her students will follow.

    SHINE: She was the first. Her students will follow.

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    sydneynoel

    How a Gustavus professor—and first-gen college student—inspires other Gusties.

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Shine: Kendra Frey

    Shine: Kendra Frey

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    (Shine profiles celebrate members of the Gustavus community who are shining examples of one of the Gustavus core values.) Music and science. Concertmaster in the symphony orchestra. Genetic tagger of yeast proteins using fluorescent markers. Soloist in the Gustavus Symphony Orchestra’s season finale. Seven semesters of Russian. “I’m conversational,” she says. It seems impossible that an undergrad…