Author: snowell
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Gretchen Hofmeister, 2001 Carlson Award Winner, Chemistry Department
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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 her “inexhaustible…
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Eric Eliason, 2000 Carlson Award Winner, English Department
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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 nomination letters…
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Douglas Nimmo, 1999 Carlson Award Winner, Music Department
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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 being on…
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Florence Amamoto, 1998 Carlson Award Winner, English Department
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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 that we…
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Mark Johnson, 1997 Carlson Award Winner, Geology Department
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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 ideal approach…
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Christopher Gilbert, 1996 Carlson Award Winner, Political Science Department
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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 had an…
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Ann Brady, 1995 Carlson Award Winner, English Department
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There are many capacities that students recognize in an excellent teacher-the ability to inspire, to communicate passionately about one’s discipline, to lead students onto roads less traveled, to attend creatively to the individual needs of students, to introduce them to the wonder and complexity of one’s own research, and above all to celebrate in the…
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Thomas Emmert, 1994 Carlson Award Winner, History Department
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Few liberal arts college are so blessed as is Gustavus in having an Edgar Carlson legacy. After serving as a religion professor, Edgar M. Carlson became president of Gustavus Adolphus College when he was 36 and led the College for 24 years from 1944 to I968. During that time, he not only made the College…
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Ronald Christenson, 1993 Carlson Award Winner, Political Science Department
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The Edgar M. Carlson Award for Distinguished Teaching is awarded each year to a faculty member who has demonstrated exceptional skill and talent as an instructor. Nominations from faculty and students are carefully evaluated by a panel of former Edgar M. Carlson Award winners and discussed at great length before making a recommendation to the…
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Douglas Huff, 1992 Carlson Award Winner, Philosophy Department
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The Edgar M. Carlson Award for Distinguished Teaching is awarded each year to a faculty member who, in the eyes of colleagues and students, has demonstrated unusual gifts as an instructor. Nominations from faculty and students are sifted by a panel of experts, former Edgar Carlson Award winners, and discussed at great length before making…