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Robert Gardner, 2005 Carlson Award Winner, Theatre and Dance Department
Robert Gardner In the Carlson Administration Building, in a small waiting area at the top of the stairs, there hangs a large photograph-a portrait. The photograph depicts the most recent winner of the Edgar M. Carlson Award for Distinguished Teaching, an award given each year since 1971 to a member of the Gustavus faculty, selected […]
Lisa Heldke, 2004 Carlson Award Winner, Philosophy Department
Lisa Heldke Most of us can think back to a special teacher who touched us in a significant way. Perhaps, a teacher who gently guided you in the process of finding yourself. A teacher who changed the direction of your life and affected how you view the world. A teacher who influenced you in ways […]
Cindy Johnson, 2003 Carlson Award Winner, Biology Department
Cindy Johnson Every year at commencement, I am excited to hear the announcement of the Edgar M. Carlson Award for Distinguished Teaching. The reason I find it so exciting is because I hear the voices of our students, quoted from their letters of nomination, expressing what it is they value in an outstanding teacher. This […]
Max Hailperin, 2002 Carlson Award Winner, Mathematics, Computer Science, and Statistics Department
Max Hailperin One of the greatest pleasures I have had as a Carlson Award recipient is in reading the letters written on behalf of this year’s award nominees. It is truly inspiring to learn first-hand about the impact that the dedication and innovation of my colleagues has had on students. Letters written on behalf of […]
Gretchen Hofmeister, 2001 Carlson Award Winner, Chemistry Department
Gretchen Hofmeister Though this professor teaches what students describe as “one of the toughest and most dreaded” classes at Gustavus, high praise has streamed in from students with an astonishing variety of majors: studio art, biology, biochemistry, chemistry, criminal justice, economics, management, international management, life science teaching, history, philosophy, psychology, and political science. They praise […]
Eric Eliason, 2000 Carlson Award Winner, English Department
Eric Eliason The Edgar M. Carlson Award is presented each year at Commencement to a member of the faculty who has demonstrated exceptional skill and effectiveness as a teacher. With regard to these criteria, this year’s recipient has, shall we say, “hit the ball out of the park.” This year’s winner is described in the […]
Douglas Nimmo, 1999 Carlson Award Winner, Music Department
Douglas Nimmo Education is a partnership between students and teachers, a dance of minds and hearts, and so we pause in this graduation ceremony to present the Edgar M. Carlson Award for Distinguished Teaching…. It has taken 29 years for someone whose teaching takes a different form to win, despite the results of that work […]
Florence Amamoto, 1998 Carlson Award Winner, English Department
Florence Amamoto The Edgar M. Carlson Award for Distinguished Teaching is awarded each year to a member of the faculty who has demonstrated exceptional skill and effectiveness as a teacher. Though we are scholars and research is dear to our hearts and our minds, it is the personal intellectual relationship the professor has with students […]
Mark Johnson, 1997 Carlson Award Winner, Geology Department
Mark Johnson President Steuer, today we pause in the midst of honoring the Class of 1997 to present for the twenty-seventh time the Edgar M. Carlson Award for Distinguished Teaching, selected by the previous recipients based on nominations from students, faculty and staff. The late physicist Richard Feynman once described for a young correspondent an […]
Christopher Gilbert, 1996 Carlson Award Winner, Political Science Department
Christopher Gilbert In deed and in truth the faculty at Gustavus Adolphus College is a community of highly educated persons dedicated to teaching. Year after year, class after class, students move to take their places in a glorious alumnae that remember and continue to praise the many fine teachers who have inspired them and have […]