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Online Registration Available for 2008 Nobel Conference

 
 

Thursday, May 8, 2008 (9 weeks ago)

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.

Tickets may be purchased by going online to gustavus.edu/nobelconference. Ticket prices are $45 for individual non-reserved seating and $75 for individual reserved main floor seating. High school and college student delegation rates are $60 per group of 20. Tickets may also be purchased for the Nobel Conference Buffet ($20), which will take place the evening of Tuesday, Oct. 7.

For more than four decades, Gustavus has organized and hosted the two-day Nobel Conference, that draws about 6,000 people to the college campus in St. Peter, Minn., and links a general audience with the world’s foremost scholars and researchers in discussion centered on contemporary issues relating to the natural and social sciences. The Nobel Conference is the first ongoing educational conference in the United States to have the official authorization of The Nobel Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden.

For more information about this year’s Nobel Conference, including specific information about this year’s topic, go online to gustavus.edu/nobelconference.

Gustavus Adolphus College is a private liberal arts college in St. Peter, Minn., that prepares 2,500 undergraduates for lives of leadership, service, and lifelong learning. The oldest Lutheran college in Minnesota, Gustavus was founded in 1862 by Swedish immigrants and named for Swedish King Gustav II Adolf. At Gustavus, students receive personal attention in small-sized classes and engage in collaborative research with their professors. Fully accredited and known for its strong science, writing, music, athletics, study-abroad, and service-learning programs, Gustavus hosts a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa and is internationally recognized for its annual Nobel Conference®.

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