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  • Nobel Lectures Online

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    The 46th Nobel Conference, titled “Making Food Good,” was held October 5 & 6. If you were unable to attend, you can watch it online.

  • Food… Glorious Food!

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    What should we eat? Whether we are walking down the aisles of a supermarket, scanning the menu in a restaurant, peering into our refrigerators…we find ourselves asking of our choices, “Is it nutritious? Affordable? Ecologically sustainable? And will it taste good?” Nobel Conference 46, “Making Food Good,” welcomes seven distinguished researchers who will offer thought-provoking…

  • Gustavus to Host Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott at The Loft

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    In partnership with The Loft in Minneapolis, Gustavus will host distinguished poet and playwright Derek Walcott at the Target Performance Hall for “An Evening with Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott” on Thursday, Sept. 30 at 8 p.m.  Walcott, who won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1992, holds this year’s Rydell Professorship at Gustavus. The Rydell…

  • Nobel Conference 46 – “Making Food Good”

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    Few issues resonate with people around the world more than the need for good food. Our choices related to diet, farming, and processing are inextricably linked to human health and the health of planetary ecosystems. Considerable public debate swirls around such issues as genetic modification and food security. Seven distinguished presenters will offer thought-provoking looks…

  • Nobel Conference Tickets Available

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    Tickets for the 46th annual Nobel Conference are currently on sale. The 2010 Nobel Conference is titled “Making Food Good” and is scheduled for Tuesday, Oct. 5, and Wednesday, Oct.  6, 2010. Seven distinguished presenters will offer thought-provoking looks into what makes food good—from the scientific and ethical aspects to esthetic, ecological, and economic considerations.…

  • Nobel Conference Tickets Now Available

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    Tickets for the 46th annual Nobel Conference will go on sale today, Thursday, April 1. The 2010 Nobel Conference is titled “Making Food Good” and is scheduled for Tuesday, Oct. 5, and Wednesday, Oct.  6. Seven distinguished presenters will offer thought-provoking looks into what makes food good—from the scientific and ethical aspects to esthetic, ecological,…

  • Nobel Lectures Online

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    Lectures from the 45th Nobel Conference, “H20 Uncertain Resource,” held Oct. 6-7, 2009, are now available online at http://gustavus.edu/events/nobelconference/2009/about.php.

  • Nobel Conference 45 at Gustavus

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    The College’s 45th Nobel Conference, “H2O: Uncertain Resource,” takes place on Tuesday and Wednesday, Oct. 6–7, and features the following lectures: Tuesday, 10 a.m. – “Climate Change and Global Peace,” R.K. Pachauri, director general, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), New Delhi, India, and Chair of the IPCC, Geneva Tuesday, 1 p.m. –“Nutrients, Nutrients Everywhere…

  • Nobel Conference

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    Water is essential to all life. Our world cannot survive without it, and solutions to its quality and availability do not come easily. We have a shared responsibility to work together to manage the world’s water, and we must better educate ourselves as to how we can make a positive impact on the use and…

  • “Go with the Flow” to Nobel Conference 45

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    Water is essential to all life. Our world cannot survive without it, and solutions to its quality and availability do not come easily. We have a shared responsibility to work together to manage the world’s water and we must better educate ourselves as to how we can make a positive impact on the use and…