Gustavus Blogs

Year: 2020

  • Tradition of Excellence: Women’s Tennis Wins 1990 National Championship

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    siewert

    In the absence of sports for the remainder of the 2019-20 academic year, Gustavus sports information will provide a series of stories to take a look back at great moments in Golden Gustie athletics history, celebrating its proud tradition of excellence.

  • Senior Spotlight: Megan Witte

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    mklein3

    The “Senior Spotlight” series honors graduating fine arts majors for their contributions to the Gustavus community.  Megan Witte is a dance honors major and theatre minor from Cloquet, Minn. Next fall her main job will be teaching at Shooting Stars Dance working with the performing arts company as an instructor and choreographer. Visiting Assistant Professor…

  • Becky Fremo, 2020 Swenson-Bunn Memorial Award for Teaching Winner

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    snowell

    Becky Fremo (English) was selected as the 2020 recipient of the Swenson-Bunn Memorial Award for Teaching. The award honors the memory of two Gustavus students and members of the Student Senate, Greg Swenson and Holly Bunn, who were killed in a car accident in 1989. Presented each year at Honors Day, this is the only…

  • Sustainability Interns Moving Forward

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    ameyerho

    Campus initiatives and organizing at all levels look very different with the onset of COVID-19. Although we interns have found ourselves distanced by physical space, our commitment to Gustavus sustainability efforts has proven to be a uniting force during these new, strange times. We have continued our weekly meetings, and although our projects and actions…

  • Daily Update: May 1, 2020

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    President Bergman emailed students and parents with updates and resources for last few weeks of spring semester. Virtual Honors Convocation is scheduled for Saturday, May 2. at 10 a.m.

  • Spring Semester Updates and Resources

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    TO: Gustavus Students FROM: President Bergman SUBJECT: Updates and Resources DATE: May 1, 2020 Dear Gusties, We have made it to May! The class tulip meadow is blossoming in the Linnaeus Arboretum and the crabapple trees outside Old Main promise to bloom shortly. With three weeks of online learning remaining, I know this is a…

  • Senior Spotlight: Jayden Luikens

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    mklein3

    The “Senior Spotlight” series honors graduating fine arts majors for their contributions to the Gustavus community. Jayden Luikens is a theatre honors major from Savage, Minn. Jayden graduated after fall semester and is currently working to expand his business creating handcrafted props while working as a manager at The Men’s Warehouse. Continuing Assistant Professor in…

  • Three Gusties Recognized as ITA Men’s Tennis All-America

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    siewert

    The 2020 ITA Division III Men’s All-Americans were named after a shortened season due to the COVID-19 pandemic with three Gustavus men’s tennis student-athletes receiving recognition – Daniel Fouchier (Fy., Nootdorp, Netherlands) and Michael O’Neil (Sr., Edina) in doubles, and Indraneel Raut (So., Oshkosh, Wis.) in singles. 

  • Senior Spotlight: Lily Anderson, Eric Carpenter, Connor Sandok

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    siewert

    The Gustavus athletics department will hear from spring sport senior student-athletes throughout the remainder of the semester, honoring those who are unable to participate in their final season of college athletics.

  • Google Meet – What’s New?

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    mdunning

    Since many of us at Gustavus have been using Google Hangouts Meet to meet virtually with our students, coworkers and family, let’s talk about SIX new features that have come out! Google Hangouts Meet dropped the “Hangouts” making it simply GOOGLE MEET! YAY — Enough said! New controls for Gustavus Google Meet accounts The meeting…