Gustavus Blogs

Month: May 2022

  • Men’s Tennis Blanks North Central, Advances to NCAA Region Championship

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    The Gustavus men’s tennis team beat North Central (Ill.) 5-0 Friday in the second round of the NCAA tournament, improving to 25-10 on the season.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Kathleen Keller

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    Kathleen Keller (History) published a book review in H-France Review of the book Marianne is Watching: Intelligence, Counterintelligence, and the Origins of the French Surveillance State by Deborah Bauer. H-France Review is “the premier review program for newly published books on Francophone history and culture in the Anglophone world.”

  • Faculty Spotlight: Jill Locke

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    Jill Locke (Political Science) was interviewed on WCCO Radio by Jearlyn Steele on Sunday, May 8, about the recent Supreme Court leak regarding Roe v. Wade. The interview is available online.

  • Baseball Thumps Saint John’s in MIAC Playoff Opener

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    The Gustavus baseball team continued its hot streak at the plate Thursday in the opening round of the MIAC playoffs, beating Saint John’s 17-7 to advance in the winner’s bracket.

  • Four Gustie Golfers Earn All-Region Honors

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    Four Gustavus golfers earned All-Region honors this week. Emily Kratz (Sr., Edina) was named WCGA All-Region 3, while Jacob Pedersen (Sr., Minnetonka), Max Ullan (Sr., Blaine), and Wyatt Wasko (Jr., Lake Elmo) were named PING All-Region 6. 

  • Nobel Conference speaker Priscilla Lui

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    Dr. Priscilla Lui is Assistant Professor of Psychology at Southern Methodist University. Her lecture at the conference will be “Scientific understanding of racism and discrimination experiences: A path toward mental health equity.” Young people are exhibiting symptoms of depression at alarmingly high rates, and responding to them with maladaptive coping mechanisms such as substance abuse…

  • Men’s Golf Finishes 24th at NCAA Championships

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    The Gustavus men’s golf team shot a 314 (+30) in the second round of the NCAA Division III Championships on Wednesday at Mission Inn Resort and Club’s Las Colinas Course.

  • The 2022 Gustie Cup

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    by Claire Drapeau The Gustie Entrepreneur Cup is a student competition that is judged based on the development of an innovative idea and the ability to create a business around that idea. For the Cup, students identify real problems and opportunities, find realistic solutions, use data, and integrate important research to develop a business model.…

  • Cooper Wins Faculty Scholarly Accomplishment Award

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    jakin

    The 2022 award was presented at the annual Honors Day Convocation on Saturday, May 7.

  • Everything is Not What it Seems: Accidental Viewpoints

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    Written by Emma Barrett, Mariah Chalamila, Sam Dorgan, and Trina Toeben   What is an accidental viewpoint? Sometimes the visual field can be fooled by an accidental viewpoint, or optical illusion. An accidental viewpoint is a viewing position that produces a regular image that is not actually present in the real world (example: the sides…