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Rydell Professorship Collection, 2006-Ongoing. GACA Collection 429. Digital media.
ABSTRACT:
The Rydell Professorship collection contains audio and video recordings of lectures given as a part of the scholar-in-residence program. “The Rydell Professorship at Gustavus Adolphus College is a scholar-in-residence program designed to bring Nobel laureates and similarly distinguished scholars to the campus as catalysts to enhance learning and teaching. The Rydell Professorship was established in 1993 by Drs. Robert E. and Susan T. Rydell to give students the opportunity to learn from and interact with leading scholars.”*
*Taken from website (https://gustavus.edu/events/rydell/history.php) 12 December 2018
| 1996 Spring | Philip Anderson, Joseph Henry Professor of Physics, Emeritus at Princeton and Nobel Laureate in Physics |
| 1997 Fall | Philip Morrison, Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 1999 Spring |
Freeman Dyson, Professor Emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton Margaret Geller, Senior Scientist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics |
| 2000 Spring | Susan Coppersmith, Robert E. Fassnacht and a Vilas Professor of Physics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison |
| 2000 Fall | Masao Abe, Professor of Philosophy at Nara University of Education |
| 2002 Spring | Lawrence Levine, Retired Professor, University of California at Berkeley and George Mason University |
| 2002 Fall | Stephen Smale, Professor at the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago and a Distinguished University Professor at the City University of Hong Kong |
| 2006 Spring | Dr. Robert Gallo, Director and Co-founder of the Institute of Human Virology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine |
| 2007 Spring | Sylvester James Gates, John S. Toll Professor of Physics at the University of Maryland |
| 2008 Spring | Franciscus (Frans) B.M. de Waal, Charles Howard Candler Professor of Primate Behavior at Emory University and Director of the Living Links Center at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center |
| 2009 Spring | Curtis Marean, Professor at the Institute of Human Origins as part of the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University |
| 2010 Fall | Derek Walcott, Nobel Laureate in Literature |
| 2011 Spring | Robert J. Lang, Artist of Origami |
| 2012 Fall | William Fitzgerald, Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Marine Sciences, University of Connecticut |
| 2013 | Sylvester James Gates, John S. Toll Professor of Physics at the University of Maryland |
| 2014 Summer | David Sedlak, Malozemoff Professor in Mineral Engineering, Co-director of Berkeley Water Center, and Director of Institute for Environmental Science and Engineering |
| 2016 Spring |
Owen Flanagan, James B. Duke Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Neurobiology at Duke University David Sedlak, Malozemoff Professor in Mineral Engineering, Co-director of Berkeley Water Center, and Director of Institute for Environmental Science and Engineering |
| 2017-18 |
Dr. Helen King, Professor Emerita of Classical Studies at the Open University Dr. Alison Murdoch, Professor of Reproductive Medicine and Newcastle University and Founder and Head of Newcastle Fertility Centre at Life |
| 2019 Spring | Dr. David Montgomery, Professor of Earth and Space Science at the University of Washington |
