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  • 2021-2022 Parking Permits

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    achanson

    Vehicles on campus may park in any red or green permit space until August 31, when we ask all employees and returning students to park according to permit color.  Ticketing in the red and green permit areas then begins at 7am on the first day of classes in the Fall, Tuesday, September 7th. Visitor parking…

  • Dr. Mary Gaebler: Sabbatical Plans & Questions: “How are Identity and Faith Related?”

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    SJ Kessler

    Dr. Mary Gaebler, Associate Professor in the Department of Religion, teaches in the area of theological ethics. Her work emerges from a preliminary interest in Martin Luther, the Protestant Reformation, and Lutheran theology. Dr. Gaebler will be on sabbatical this coming academic year, 2021-2. The following is her description of the ideas and questions she’ll…

  • Reflection on the end of the semester

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    jford

    As we finish up another year, I always look back and see what I could have changed, and what would have been an improvement. I keep coming back to the idea that, if I can get students to buy into the method sooner, they will have better outcomes. I’ve always believed that if students revise…

  • Queer History & Fun Reads for Pride Month ?

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    brewer

    Happy Pride Month! Or, at the library, Rainbow Book Month. Pride is celebrated in June each year to commemorate the 1969 Stonewall Uprising, a landmark event in the Gay Liberation Movement, which evolved into today’s LGBTQIA+ rights movements. This post highlights a few materials from the Gustavus Library collection that celebrate queer history, the present,…

  • Dr. Elledge Interviewed on Learning for Life @ Gustavus — Plus A Peak at Some Great New Scholarship

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    SJ Kessler

    Dr. Casey Elledge was featured this past year on Learning for Life @ Gustavus, a new podcast hosted by Dr. Greg Kaster (History). In an episode entitled “From Preacher’s Nephew to Religion Prof,” Dr. Elledge discusses his early exposure to lived Christianity, and the various influences that eventually brought him to the study of Second Temple Judaism…

  • S.9: E.8: Enthralled by Museums

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    Learning for Life @ Gustavus host Greg Kaster interviews Gustavus alum and American Swedish Institute experience director Ingrid Nyholm-Lange.

  • S.9, E.7: From Coffee Can to Paint Pail

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    Learning for Life @ Gustavus host Greg Kaster interviews Gustavus alumnus and inventor-entrepreneur Mark Bergman ’79.

  • Celebrate Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage

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    ahulsebe

    Join us in celebrating Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month in May. Below is a sampling of resources on AAPI heritage in the library, including decolonial travel guides, memoirs, novels and graphic novels, plays, films, current news, and primary sources. Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Hawai’i edited by Hokulani K. Aikau and Vernadette Vicuña…

  • Congrats to our LALACS 2021 Graduates!

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    adwyer

    Majors Carlos Balbuena Conner Cress    Marisa Gustafson     Ava Hanson   Zachary Johnson         Vanessa Ramírez-Gavilán   Paige Patterson     Minors Hailey Concepción     Katie Orcutt           Emma Lohman     Gracie Willaert

  • Summer Preview, Part 2: Gusties Earn Creative Research Experiences

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    vthurk

    This summer, over 50 Gusties will be undertaking summer research projects. Their collaborations with faculty span the sciences, arts, and humanities. Here’s a snapshot of 4 students who will be conducting research on-campus.   Tyler DelMain ‘22, Music Education   Through his music research, Tyler DelMain ‘22 will identify what is leading the disparity in…