Gustavus students and St. Peter residents filled the Linneaus Arboretum on Saturday, Sept. 17 for the annual Fall Fest. The festival featured hay rides, guided tours, a book signing, alpacas and pumpkin painting. Many local businesses were present, including stands selling goods made from alpaca wool, a pottery demonstration and sale and the Traverse Des Sioux Garden Center’s display of potted plants. Student volunteers from … Continue reading Fall Fest celebrates St. Peter

Since 1963, Gustavus Adolphus College has been the proud host of the annual Nobel Conference. Each year, the Nobel Conference committee, consisting of Gustavus faculty and staff, assemble a panel of Nobel laureates to speak to students about cutting-edge scientific issues and engage them in discussion about the ethics and societal influences of these issues. The 47th Nobel Conference will be concentrating on the answer … Continue reading Preparing for Nobel Conference 47

The Johnson Student Union looks a little different this year. Where the Center for Vocational Reflection and the Linner Lounge once stood now stands a new office, the Center for Servant Leadership (CSL). Last year the Lily Grant, which kept the Center for Vocational Reflection running, ran out, giving the initial push to combine offices to keep its services available to students. Eventually the Center … Continue reading Center for Servant Leadership Opens

Beck Academic Hall, the first new academic building built at Gustavus in 25 years, is open for student and faculty use. The building features a number of structural advancements, as well as academic features that will allow for more use by the departments that are housed in it: Economics and Management, Psychology, Sociology/Anthropology, History and Communication Stuides. “Beck Academic Hall will provide faculty and students … Continue reading Beck Academic Hall Opens

This year, Gustavus is celebrating both its sesquicentennial and the 47th annual Nobel Conference—The Brain and Being Human. This year’s Nobel poster is also a subject of  interest to many members of the Gustavus community. The poster’s creator is a young Brazilian artist named Leandro Lima, who lives in Milan, Italy. “We knew he liked abstract drawings, so we looked at some of his work, … Continue reading Nobel Conference 47—on the mind

Michael Chorost, technology theorist and author, went completely deaf in 2001 and had a computer chip implanted into his head, enabling him to hear again. This experience brought about his first book, Rebuilt: How Becoming Part Computer Made Me More Human. In the book, he goes into detail about how having software generated electrical pulses connected to his cochlea has sparked his interest in what … Continue reading Michael Chorost on connecting mind, technology

In honor of the 150th academic year for Gustavus Adolphus College, there will be a series of articles this year in the St. Peter Herald sharing stories of the shared history, values and partnership between the college and the town. Athletics have been a proud tradition in St. Peter for over 100 years, but it was in 1929 that sports in St. Peter finally “saw … Continue reading This Month in History—Lighting the Way