Gustavus Blogs

Month: March 2022

  • Women’s Hockey Advances to NCAA Semifinals, Wins 5-3 at UW-River Falls

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    Gustavus women’s hockey erased two deficits Saturday to upset No. 2-ranked UW-River Falls 5-3 in an NCAA quarterfinal game. The Gusties, now 24-3-2 overall, advance to the national semifinals where they will take on Plattsburgh State next weekend. 

  • Two Gusties Earn Critical Language Scholarship

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    Caroline Southworth ‘24 and Dalton Dahle ‘22 have both been awarded the U.S. Department of State’s Critical Language Scholarship.

  • Nelson, Donnelly Qualify for Finals at NCAA Indoor Championships

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    Gustavus women’s track athletes Birgen Nelson (So., Edina) and Elizabeth Donnelly (Sr., Langely, Wash.) both qualified for finals in their respective preliminary races on Friday at the NCAA Division III Indoor Track & Field Championships. 

  • Schoenrock, Vrieze Earn MIAC Elite 22 Awards

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    The Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) recognized some of its best and brightest winter sport student-athletes on Thursday with the announcement of the Elite 22 Awards. Two Gustavus student-athletes received the award as Betsy Schoenrock (Jr., New Richland) is the women’s basketball recipient and Kayla Vrieze (Sr., Eagan) is the women’s hockey recipient.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Mimi Gerstbauer and Denis Crnkovi?

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    Mimi Gerstbauer (Political Science) and Denis Crnkovi? (Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures) were interviewed for a recent Mankato Free Press piece about the local impacts of the war in Ukraine.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Marta Podesmka-Mikluch

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    Marta Podesmka-Mikluch (Economics and Management) appeared in a KEYC News segment about how the Russia-Ukraine conflict and embargoes are impacting gas and oil prices.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Yurie Hong

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    Yurie Hong (Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies) delivered an invited lecture entitled “Birthing Ideas in Ancient Greece and the Modern World: A Personal and Professional Story” at Pomona College in February. She delivered a revised version of this lecture at the University of Washington, Seattle on March 4 and led a graduate workshop on the…

  • Baseball vs. Wartburg Moved to Sunday in Saint Peter

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    The Gustavus baseball team’s non-conference doubleheader scheduled for 1 p.m. Saturday at Wartburg College has been moved to 1 p.m. Sunday at the Gustie Baseball Field due to unplayable field conditions at Wartburg.

  • Campus Safety Report (3/11/22)

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    Gustavian Weekly

    Thursday, March 3, 2022 Campus Safety gave a medical escort for a student, per Health Services’ request, to Urgent Care Friday, March 4, 2022 Campus Safety responded to a fire in a dumpster in the Rundstrom parking lot. Campus Safety extinguished the dumpster fire. Sunday, March 6, 2022 Campus Safety responded to a maintenance issue…

  • Gustavus updates masking rules

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    Gustavian Weekly

    Mel Pardock and Kendra Smaby – Staff Writers Masking has been an almost omnipresent feature of our lives for the last two years. As vaccines became available, restrictions lightened up over Summer 2021 and we were given a taste of what a post COVID-19 world could look like, but with the onset of the Delta variant we…