Members of the nationally ranked Gustavus Adolphus College forensics team will perform publicly on Thursday, May 15 at this year's Speech Showcase. The event will begin at 7:30 p.m. at the Courtyard Café, located on the lower level of the C. Charles Jackson Campus Center.

Registration is now available online for Gustavus Adolphus College's 44th annual Nobel Conference. This year's conference, titled "Who Were the First Humans?" is scheduled for Oct. 7-8.

Gustavus Adolphus College will host the 2008 NCAA Division III Women's Tennis Championships May 13-15. The matches will be played at the college's Brown Outdoor Tennis Complex.

Gustavus Adolphus College student athletes Margaret Dorer, Trevor Wittwer, and Connor Ziegler have been selected to receive postgraduate scholarships from the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).

Women's human rights advocate Arvonne Fraser will speak at the Gustavus Library Associates' Spring Author Day at 10:45 a.m. Wednesday, May 14 at the Edina Country Club. Fraser will speak about her spirited memoir, She's No Lady: Politics, Family, and International Feminism.

The Hillstrom Museum of Art at Gustavus Adolphus College will present Permanent? Senior Show 2008, an exhibition featuring the work of 12 senior studio art majors at the college.

Father Elias Chacour, the Archbishop of Galilee of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church, will visit Gustavus Adolphus College on Monday, May 12.

On Saturday, May 3, Gustavus Adolphus College will host Honors Day, an annual event that recognizes the academic excellence and achievements of students. This year, several hundred students will be recognized.

Gustavus Adolphus College will celebrate student research and scholarship when its holds its first annual Celebration of Creative Inquiry from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, May 2 in the banquet rooms of the C. Charles Jackson Campus Center.

According to local safety officials, this morning's gas leak in St. Peter (7th and Pine Streets) has been fully contained and is now under control. Although people on campus may continue to smell odors throughout the day as repair work continues, we have been assured that there is no danger to health or safety from this situation.

The Covenant Award, bestowed annually to an individual who has made distinctive contributions which have strengthened the partnership between Gustavus Adolphus College and member congregations of the College's Association of Congregations, was presented to Dr. Paul F. Tillquist on Saturday, April 26.

The Board of Trustees of Gustavus Adolphus College today elected Jack R. Ohle to be the College's 15th president. Ohle, currently the president of Wartburg College in Waverly, Iowa, will succeed James L. Peterson, who is retiring after serving as president of the College since July 2003. Ohle will take office July 1, 2008.

Fraternities and sororities at Gustavus Adolphus College will be raising money for Union University during their annual Greek Week April 28-May 3.

During the month of February, Gustavus Adolphus College and many schools in the country competed in the National Campus Energy Challenge to see which school could conserve the most energy compared to last year's energy consumption during the same timeframe.

Gustavus Adolphus College will host the Minnesota Philosophical Society Student Conference from 9:30 a.m. to 5:20 p.m. Saturday, April 26.

A triathlon will be held at Gustavus Adolphus College on Sunday, May 11 to benefit juvenile diabetes through project IronKiDz in association with Triabetes and Insulindependence.

Dr. Paul Nulsen from the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics will deliver a lecture at Gustavus Adolphus College at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 24 in room 103 of F.W. Olin Hall for Physics, Mathematics, and Computer Science.

Gustavus Adolphus College has recently been awarded $1 million for science education over the next four years from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) in Chevy Chase, Md.

Gustavus Adolphus College will hold its annual Gustavus Author Tea from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday, April 29 at the Courtyard Café, located in the C. Charles Jackson Campus Center.

A memorial service to celebrate the life of the Rev. Robert Esbjornson, who passed away Oct. 26, 2007, will be held at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, April 19 in Christ Chapel.