Rydell Professorship History

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.

Past Speakers

Year	Presenter
2022	Alex Filippenko, Professor of Astronomy and the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Professor in the Physical Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley
2019	David Montgomery, Professor of Earth and Space Sciences at the University of Washington
2017-2018	Alison Murdoch, Professor of Reproductive Medicine at Newcastle University and Founder and Head of Newcastle Fertility Centre at Life Helen King, Professor Emerita of Classical Studies at the Open University in England
Spring 2016	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
Summer 2014	David Sedlak, Malozemoff Professor in Mineral Engineering, Co-director of Berkeley Water Center, and Director of Institute for Environmental Science and Engineering
2013	Sylvester James Gates, John S. Toll Professor of Physics at the University of Maryland
Fall 2012	William Fitzgerald, Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Marine Sciences, University of Connecticut
Spring 2011	Robert J. Lang, artist of origami
Fall 2010	Derek Walcott, Nobel Laureate in Literature
Spring 2009	Curtis Marean, professor at the Institute of Human Origins as part of the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University
Spring 2008	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
Spring 2007	Sylvester James Gates, John S. Toll Professor of Physics at the University of Maryland
Spring 2006	Dr. Robert Gallo, Director and Co-founder of the Institute of Human Virology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine
Fall 2002	Stephen Smale, Professor at the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago and a Distinguished University Professor at the City University of Hong Kong
Spring 2002	Lawrence Levine, retired professor,University of California at Berkeley and George Mason University
Fall 2000	Masao Abe, Professor of Philosophy at Nara University of Education
Spring 2000	Susan Coppersmith, Robert E. Fassnacht and a Vilas Professor of Physics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison
Spring 1999	Freeman Dyson, professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton Margaret Geller, Senior Scientist, Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
Fall 1997	Philip Morrison, Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Spring 1996	Philip Anderson, Joseph Henry Professor of Physics, Emeritus at Princeton and Nobel Laureate in Physics