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St. Olaf Magazine

Winter 2008

St. Olaf Magazine won seven awards at the annual Minnesota Magazine & Publications Association (MMPA) Publishing Excellence Awards including Gold Awards for Overall Excellence, Overall Best Design, Best Feature Article and Best Use of Visuals/Photography; Silver Awards for Best Single Topic Issue (The Power of Knowledge) and Best Feature Article; and a Bronze Award for photography.

St. Olaf Magazine also received a Gold Award for Best Alumni/Institution Magazine in the 2008 Pride of CASE V Awards Program.

* MMPA Gold Award, Overall Excellence
* MMPA Gold Award, Overall Best Design
* MMPA Gold Award, Best Use of Visuals/Photography
* MMPA Silver Award, Best Single Topic Issue
* MMPA Silver Award, Best Feature Article

	THE FIRST WORD By David R. Anderson ’74

	Fire & Ice * MMPA Gold Award, Best Use of Visuals/Photography * MMPA Silver Award, Best Feature Article With the rise of global temperatures and unprecedented ice melt in the earth’s polar regions, thousands of scientists from 60 nations — including St. Olaf College faculty, students, and alumnus Knut Christianson ’05 — embark on a coordinated campaign of research that marks a new era in polar science. By David Hawley

	The Road to the Rhodes St. Olaf seniors Nicole Novak and Ishanaa Rambachan will soon join an elite group of Rhodes scholars at the University of Oxford. By J. Trout Lowen

	Groundwater Guardian Susan Seacrest ’75 turned her concern over the quality of local groundwater into a national groundwater campaign to educate policymakers, farmers, businesses and students about water pollution. Her efforts have flowed well beyond her Great Plains home to all quarters of the nation. By Kim Ode

	In Search of Landscapes Lost Six St. Olaf summer research students and three St. Olaf faculty members retrace the 1838 expedition of French explorer Joseph Nicollet and botanist Charles Geyer. While the landscape of 1838 cannot be brought back to life, the issue remains of what to do with the future. By Charlie Whittlesey '77

	St. Olaf Q & A For the past 50 years, Wes Pearson ’54 has taught students to see small — and think big. By Patricia Grotts Kelly ’77

	POV Where Peace and Love and Hope Abide By Pastor Bruce Benson

	ON THE HILL What do positrons do? Ask Rossing Physics Scholar Dan Endean ’09. Buntrock Commons exemplifies sustainable living. Ole athletes wrap up a successful season. St. Olaf receives NSF S-STEM and McNair grants.