Gustavus Blogs

Year: 2023

  • Metamorphoses: The Growth That Theater Offers

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    msousa

    Gustavus Adolphus College is proud to present the Theater Department’s rendition of Metamorphoses. An emotional whirlwind of a play that takes classic stories told by Ovid and redesigns them for modern audiences, this production should not be missed. It will be taking place from November 2 to November 5. Associate Professor in Theatre and Dance…

  • Updates to Printing on Campus

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    admin

    Over the summer recent changes were made to printing on campus by GTS. These changes included removing printers from residence halls and decreasing the number of printers overall on campus. These decisions were made to cut costs on printing materials, such as ink and paper. Student Senate is working with GTS to make sure there…

  • MCS Scholarship: Dr. Jeff Ford

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    anienow2

      Since Summer of 2021 Dr. Jeff Ford has been a Team-based Inquiry Learning fellow at the NSF-funded TBIL institute at University of South Alabama. This is a group of faculty who work to write open-source textbooks using the TBIL pedagogy and conduct research on the effectiveness of this teaching method, In Summer 2023 Dr.…

  • TLC Blog Is Back! – “40 Things I Have Learned in 40 Years At TLC”

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    nhagberg

    This past summer I said the words out loud to campers for the first time and found them hard to believe: “This is my 40th summer at TLC, 13th as director.”  How is it possible I have been here 40 years when I made it clear I was only intending to stay one?  Part of…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Dwight Stoll

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    snowell

    Dwight Stoll (Chemistry) was awarded a supplement for the project, “2D-LC Method Development for Pharmaceutical Analysis” ($20,000).

  • Faculty Spotlight: Dwight Stoll

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    snowell

    Dwight Stoll (Chemistry) was awarded a supplement for the project, “Deepening Understanding of Reversed-Phase Selectivity for Small Molecule Pharmaceutical Analysis” ($50,000).

  • Open Access Week 2023 #OAWeek

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    rflynn

    October 23-29, 2023 is Open Access Week. This is an opportunity to celebrate and advocate for equitable information access for all. Open Access publishing models make a diverse set of perspectives freely available, rather than restricting access to only those with institutional credentials that remove paywalls.  This year’s theme, Community over Commercialisation, asks us to…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Tiffany Grobelski

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    snowell

    Tiffany Grobelski (Environment, Geography, and Earth Sciences & Peace, Justice, and Conflict Studies) presented a webinar entitled “Project-Based Learning in the World Geography Classroom” for the National Council of Geographic Education. The NCGE is a non-profit organization chartered in 1915 to enhance the status and quality of geography teaching and learning.

  • Gustavus football dominates Macalester

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    gkearney

    Parker Burman- This past weekend, the Gustavus Football team hosted Macalester for a showdown at Hollingsworth Field; the first time the two teams had faced off with each other since 2007. The Gusties delivered a win in convincing fashion on Hall of Fame Day, scoring on eight of their 11 drives during the game to…

  • Movies from Swank: Paranormal Activity

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    gkearney

    Will Sorg- It is difficult to think of a genre more dead than found footage horror. Found footage movies had the horror market in a stranglehold for about a decade, and then they vanished from the box office by the mid-2010s. Still, for me, it’s hard to forget how big some of those really popular…