Honors Day 2010

Speeches

Diana Musoke '10
Diana is a senior who was born and grew up in Kampala, Uganda, in Africa.  She majored in psychology with a concentration in management studies. Her parents are Catherine Bossa Musoke, a Consultant for Central Bank of Uganda, and Frederick Tito Musoke, a retired accountant. She has one sister and two brothers, one of whom lives in Boston, MA.  The rest of her family currently lives in Uganda.  After graduation she is hoping to remain in the United States and work for a time, and then return to graduate school to pursue a career in Human Resource Management.
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Nathan Swenson '10
Nathan is senior from De Pere, Wisconsin who majored in Chemistry and Spanish with a concentration in Biomedical Studies.  His parents, Luther and Lori, are a clergy couple at an ELCA church in Green Bay.  His brother, Matthew, is a sophomore at Gustavus; and his sister, Kiersten, is a high school senior.  This upcoming year he plans to work as an emergency department scribe at Mercy Hospital in Coon Rapids and as a home health care aide for developmentally disabled adults with ACR Homes.  He also plans to apply to medical school to start in the fall of 2011.
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Robert Jacobel
Grace A. Whittier Endowed Chair in Science, professor of physics

Robert Jacobel has authored more than sixty peer-reviewed publications and his projects have received several million dollars in grant support from the National Science Foundation and NASA. The Jacobel Glacier in the coastal Marie Byrd Land of West Antarctica was named in recognition of his scientific achievements in 2004. Jacobel has been teaching in the St. Olaf Physics Department and the Paracollege since 1976. Jacobel helped found the St. Olaf Environmental Studies Program and was it's first director and, later, department chair for fifteen years. He currently is a principal investigator on an NSF-sponsored interdisciplinary project that is taking place at several Antarctic sub-glacial lakes that have biological significance.
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