Gustavus Blogs

Month: September 2023

  • Friends of the Library featured in the Gustavus Quarterly – Spring 2023

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    ENSURING A SPACE FOR DISCOVERY AND CONNECTION For nearly 50 years, Gustavus Library Associates—Friends of the Library have helped make Folke Bernadotte Memorial Library an essential part of the Gustavus student experience. Longtime board member Susan Engelsma Wilcox ’73 and current president Ava Goepfert ’14 discuss the work of GLA. 32-33-GLAgivingPages-Spring2023-Quarterly-small_32-33

  • Festival of St. Lucia – December 7, 2023

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    dlamb

    Festival of St. Lucia at Gustavus Thursday, December 7, 2023 10 a.m. Chapel 11 a.m. Friends of the Library – Gustavus Library Associates Luncheon (Swedish Smorgasbord) Luncheon Speaker: Meghan Krause  “Creating your Purpose-Powered Life” Reservations are required as table seating is assigned. Tickets are $30 and are available at gustavustickets.com on Wednesday, November 1st at…

  • Student Senate Applications 2023-2024

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    Your Gustavus Student Senate is seeking applications for Student Senators! Elected representatives serve as full voting members of the Student Senate, where they discuss important issues facing the student body and decide how to use an annual budget of over $300,000 for student organizations and projects, while improving their leadership and career competencies!  If you are interested in this opportunity,…

  • A Gustie Dives Into Global Citizenship and Diplomacy

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    A significant part of the Gustavus vision statement prepares and implores our students to “act on the great challenges of our time.” Abby Joy Neptun ’24 spent summer 2023 doing just that. The Communication Studies major and Political Science minor was a program assistant for World Chicago, a 70-year-old nonprofit organization funded by the U.S.…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Kathy Lund Dean

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    Kathy Lund Dean (Business and Economics) published the article “Building a Community of Practice: Insights From Vicarious Learning and Crowdsourcing” in the journal Management Teaching Review. Co-authored with members of her own experiential teaching community of practice, the article shares practical tips for integrating others’ insights into our own teaching activities. Also, in June, Lund…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Erik Gulbranson

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    snowell

    Erik Gulbranson (Environment, Geography, and Earth Sciences) recently co-authored a manuscript entitled “A lithostratigraphic reappraisal of a Permian-Triassic fluvial succession at Allan Hills (Antarctica) and implications for the terrestrial end-Permian extinction event” in the journal Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Glenn Kranking

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    Glenn Kranking (History and Scandinavian Studies) was a lecturer and expert on the Great European Journey through the Rhine River Valley and Switzerland with Smithsonian Journeys.

  • Sam Mendoza ’14

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    This Outdoors Enthusiast Learned To Love The Arboretum As a Student. He Has Returned To Help The Community Love It Too. If campus were a gigantic house, the Arb would be its front porch. That’s what Mendoza believes. “It’s that space between public and private. It’s the perfect area to welcome people from the Saint…

  • Gustavus Begins its 162nd Academic Year

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    sash

    It was a sunny day to consider light in the world as Opening Convocation kicked off the College’s 162nd academic year.

  • Staying in shape at Gustavus

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    gkearney

    With summer coming to a close, fall about to begin and winter on the horizon, there are plenty of ways for Gusties to get and stay active on campus. With clubs, groups, intramural sports, and individual activities all ready to begin, Gusties are chomping at the bit to get active and into shape. As the…