Category: Excellence

Steinway and Sons, makers of what most serious musicians would say are the world’s best pianos, has put Gustavus Adolphus College on its “All Steinway Schools” list.

Hailey Harren proves that “winning isn’t everything or the only thing” by balancing athletics with academics, and life.

Gustavus alumnus Ryan Hoag is excited to become an elementary school teacher, but not until he pursues his dream of being an NFL football player for the Minnesota Vikings.

The National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) and the United States Sports Academy have announced the final totals for the 2005-06 Directors’ Cup and Gustavus finished 10th out of 435 competing NCAA Division III institutions.

As a physics major, Dorea Ruggles was interested in how Christ Chapel’s architecture affects the sounds generated within, if only because the French Horn player in her knew something was up.

2001 graduate Nick Eyde’s experiences after Gustavus have been anything but ordinary, and that’s just the way he likes it.

Kristen Nelson modestly calls it a case of being in the right place at the right time. Yet, she was selected to travel and conduct research with a widely known education professor from Stanford University.

Five Gustavus students were awarded National Collegiate Athletic Association postgraduate scholarships, ranking Gustavus Adolphus College second in the nation for the highest number of these scholarships in the 2004-2005 school year.

Selected to take part in the Fulbright International Summer Institute (FISI), Gustavus senior Matt Forbes is spending two weeks in Pamporovo, Bulgaria.

Joe Lencioni is a Renaissance kind of guy. A senior religion major at Gustavus from Princeton, Minn., he has done just about everything he can to counter the stereotypical image of the staid and serious pre-seminarian.