Blogs at Gustavus
Josh Owens Earns All-America Honors With Third Place Finish At NCAA Championships In Pole Vault
La Crosse, Wis. – Gustavus track and field athlete Josh Owens (Sr., Brooklyn Park, Minn.) placed third in the pole vault competition at the 2013 NCAA Men’s Track and Field Championships held on the campus of UW-La Crosse on Thursday afternoon. Owens capped off his senior spring with a vault of 16-feet 2.25-inches to earn All-America [...]
Donkena, Smith-Dennis Advance To Quarterfinals In 2013 NCAA Men’s Tennis Doubles Championship
Kalamazoo, Mich. – The Gustavus men’s tennis duo of Amrik Donkena (Sr., Rochester, Minn.) and Mya Smith-Dennis (Jr., Savage, Minn.) advanced to the quarterfinal round of the 2013 NCAA Men’s Tennis Doubles Championship after a convincing 6-2, 6-3 win over Tanner Brown and Erik Lim of Johns Hopkins University. The tandem will play again Friday, [...]
Ally Voss Awarded NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship
Indianapolis - The National Collegiate Athletic Association announced its 2013 winter sports postgraduate scholarship winners earlier this week. Among the list of 29 male and 29 female winter sports student-athletes was Gustavus senior track and field competitor Allyson Voss (Wausau, Wis.). “It was such an honor for me to receive a nomination from Gustavus for [...]
Philosophers played a very clean game
Moreover, everyone on the philosophy team is an actual philosophy major. We’re just sayin’. And our shirts were fantastic. But, okay, it’s true. We lost. Yes, after five years of easy, breezy victories, the philosophy department was routed by classics today, 7-2. I like to think it was the fact that the game moved indoors. [...]
Jason Haaheim ’01: Conquering Music and Science
After graduating from Gustavus in 2001 with a double major in honors music and physics, Jason Haaheim didn't stop learning and he didn't stop pursuing his dreams. After earning a master's degree and spending 10 successful years as a scientist, Haaheim is now the Principal Timpanist of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra in New York.
Josh Owens And Ally Voss Set To Compete At NCAA Championships
St. Peter, Minn. - A pair of Gustavus Adolphus student-athletes are set to compete in the 2013 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships being held May 23-25 at Roger Harring Stadium at Veterans Memorial Field Sports Complex on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. Senior Josh Owens (Brooklyn Park, Minn.) and senior Allyson [...]
Scott and Rosa Glade Arnold ’00 ’99
Gus James Arnold was born on March 25, 2013 to Scott Arnold ’00 and Rosa Glade Arnold ’99.
New and Improved Catalog Searching
We’ve switched to a new version of our cataloging interface MnPALS Plus. Searching for books, music, videos & more is now better than before. Here are just some of the new features you may notice with new version: Narrow results by clicking on format, author, topic, genre, region and more! Search by call number to [...]
MCS Club Presents Wordles
At the department’s picnic, students Helen Wauck and Nate Jenson presented three framed “wordles” on behalf of the MCS Club to department members who will soon be leaving. These cluster together words often used to describe administrative assistant Linda Hewitt, who will be retiring in September, and professors Karl Knight and Choong-Soo Lee, who at [...]
Laurel Boman ’14: Excelling in Classics Department
Gustavus junior Laurel Boman has found a home in the College's Classics Department and was recently awarded a Manson A. Stewart Scholarship. Her story reveals how challenging and rewarding a major in the humanities can be for Gustavus students.