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  • SHINE: “Gustavus doesn’t let you passively experience it.”

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    sydneynoel

    It’s funny now to think about how far down the list Gustavus was for Jenesis Tompkins ’23. The former high school class president, now a Gustavus admission counselor, recalls, “Gustavus had free busing from the Twin Cities. I was just going for the free stuff, to be honest.” She’d been touring East Coast and Chicago…

  • A Gustavus Student’s Perspective on the Nobel Conference

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    elliotsteeves

    The Nobel Conference is a wondrous annual occasion at Gustavus Adolphus College. It is the only gathering in the United States that is permitted to use the Nobel name. World-renowned scholars provide novel information and education on a particular subject to the Gustavus student body and staff, high school students, alumni, and other interested guests.…

  • Growing Up Unequal

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    rmccarthy

    Whether it’s disabilities, race, or other factors, the situation a child is born into can lead to stark mental health inequities later in life.

  • More Connected Than Ever, More Alone Than Before

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    rmccarthy

    Many uses of digital technology, such as opportunities to find new social groups, can benefit mental health. But not all uses are positive.

  • Hard to Navigate: Growing Up In A Rapidly Changing World

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    rmccarthy

    Growing up is never easy. But in today’s world, rocked by old issues and connected by novel technologies, growing up is accompanied by new challenges.

  • Nobel Conference Speaker Joseph P. Gone

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    Dr. Joseph P. Gone. His conference lecture is titled, “Anticolonial Approaches to Community Mental Health Services for American Indians: Enacting AlterNative Psy-ence.” Native American people suffer mental health issues just like any other community in the world. Many community members struggle with substance abuse, depression, and associated distress. But living on reservations also presents unique…

  • Nobel Conference Speaker Daniel Eisenberg

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    During the pandemic, it has not been difficult to identify new, pressing challenges faced by young people—challenges that can have a significant impact on their mental health. Likewise, we can quite readily identify the impacts of new technologies on young persons’ mental health. However, while it is undoubtedly the case that both the pandemic and…

  • Nobel Conference Speaker G. Nic Rider

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    Dr. G. Nic Rider. Their lecture at the conference is titled, “Radical Healing and Inclusive Change-Making: Centering Transgender and Gender Diverse Communities.” Transgender and gender nonconforming (TGNC) people–those whose experiences of their gender do not match the gender they were assigned at birth–face substantial health disparities when compared to their cisgender counterparts (persons whose gender…

  • Nobel Conference Speaker Manuela Barreto

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    Dr. Manuela Barreto, Professor of Social and Organizational Psychology, University of Exeter. Her lecture will be “It takes a village to make someone lonely.” In 2018, 55,000 people completed an online survey, the “Loneliness Experiment.” It was the largest study of loneliness to date. Among its findings: young people (16 to 24) reported feeling lonely…

  • Nobel Conference speaker Brendesha Tynes

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    Dr. Brendesha Tynes is Dean’s Professor of Equity and Professor of Education and Psychology at the University of Southern California. Her lecture at the conference is “Adolescents’ daily race-related experiences and mental health outcomes.” Access to digital media permeates our society, perhaps particularly among young people. In one recent survey of middle and high schoolers,…