 Hi, my name is Emma Nelson, and welcome to our virtual visit day. I am a junior from St. Paul, Minnesota, and I'm studying Spanish and political science with a minor in public health. Please join me and Gus as we take you around campus on this beautiful fall day. Welcome to Lund Center, home of Golden Gusty Athletics. Lund Center is also home to the Health and Exercise Science Department, which includes the Exercise Physiology, Athletic Training, and Health and Physical Education majors. Sport and fitness are important aspects of Gustavus culture. 27% of students are involved in varsity athletics, and 80% are involved in intramurals. Student athletes here receive an outstanding education at one of the top liberal arts colleges in the country, and they compete for conference and national championships. Don Roberts Ice Rink is home to the Gustavus men's and women's hockey teams. Gustavus is one of the top on-campus rinks in small college hockey, and both the men's and women's hockey programs rank among the all-time winningest ones in Division III history. This is the Spanberg Gymnastics Studio. Our gymnastics teams have won eight national team titles, and 25 gymnasts have claimed national individual titles. This is the Vic Gustafson Pool. Gusty men's and women's swimming teams have claimed 18 conference titles in the past 20 years, and 25 swimmers have earned All-America honors at the NCAA Championships. Gustavus has a storied athletic history that includes many national team and individual champions, and our stellar athletes are also stellar students. Gustavus ranks 12th in the nation in the number of Cosida Academic All-Americans in Division III. Gus Young Court is the home of the women's volleyball team and the men's and women's basketball teams. As you can see by the banners, all three programs have excelled at the conference and national level. It's an exciting time for health, wellness, and athletic programs here at Gustavus. We are about to start a $60 million expansion and renovation of Lund Center that will include 17,000 square feet of new cardio, workout, and weight room space, a 60,000 square foot indoor practice facility, and completely renovated locker rooms. We're now headed into the Schaefer Fine Arts Building. The Schaefer Art Gallery showcases student exhibitions and contemporary work by regional and national artists, including lectures and discussion-based workshops. This is the Ceramic Studio. Any student can take visual arts classes at Gustavus. If you are an art major, there are 24-hour studio spaces for seniors working in any medium, from ceramics to drawing to metal sculpture. We're moving into Bjorling Recital Hall and the music building now. The 475-seat UC Bjorling Concert Hall is one of the finest rehearsal and concert halls in the region with three Steinway pianos. It's a rehearsal space for several of our large ensembles and performance space for the jazz bands, wind orchestra, wind symphony, and campus band. Each of our music ensembles tours the U.S. and tours internationally every four years. Our most recent international tours include Singapore and Malaysia, Sweden and Norway, and the great music capitals of Europe. This is the Kresge Dance Studio. Any student can take dance and movement classes. Dance is also a major, and students frequently learn from movement traditions and guest artists from all over the world. Our alumni have gone on to work and dance with regional and national companies. Performing in Anderson Theatre is quite an experience. It's a three-quarters thrust, making it an acting and design challenge. It also has brand new lighting and sound. You'll definitely hone your craft here, like our theatre alumni who went on to star in Orange is the New Black, Parenthood, and TV's Bargo. We are now standing at the intersection of the Arts and the Sciences at Gustavus. This atrium connects Anderson Theatre with the newly renovated and expanded Nobel Hall of Science. No other college in the country links the Arts and the Sciences like this. In fact, the coffee shop and deli in this atrium celebrates science, technology, engineering, the arts, and math. It's called the Steamery. It's a popular hangout for everyone and the smoothies are great. This is our new Robin Judy Gardner Laboratory Theatre. It's flexible for any performance situation, and we're particularly proud of the large state-of-the-art tech booth that has huge capacity for creating. Our newly renovated and expanded Nobel Hall of Science rivals any research facility at a small liberal arts college. Whether you're majoring in or exploring science, you'll learn in an interdisciplinary way here with a focus on the future. The learning spaces here in Nobel Hall are really flexible. Many of our labs are T-search labs where teaching and research are conducted in one room. You'll find curved bench tops for easy collaboration, clear student professor sight lines, lots of natural light, and easy access to instrumentation. The instrumentation room houses the largest instruments for all of our labs, such as those for infrared spectroscopy, mass spectrometry, and nuclear magnetic resonance. Think MRI for molecules. This is Wallenberg Auditorium. Class sizes are small at Gustavus. This room is as big as it gets. It doubles as an on-campus movie theater, so it's been outfitted with high-definition projection and surround sound. The brand-new Gustavus Greenhouse has more than 650 plant specimens representing nearly 90 plant families and environmental chambers that can be adjusted for light intensity, temperature, and humidity. We're entering Christchapel now. Chapel, as we students call it, is a place of worship and learning. It's also the performance home to the Gustavus Choir, Chapel Choir, and the St. Lucia Choir. One of the most celebrated campus events is Christmas in Christchapel, featuring more than 350 student performers and drawing thousands of visitors to campus. At Gustavus, faith, science, and ethics coexist. Our students aren't afraid to ask the big questions, see the great challenges in the world, and act on them. And there we have it. Thank you so much for joining me on this tour today. Of course, today's tour was in a virtual format, but we would love to see you in person and welcome you to our Gustavus community here on campus. To book a tour, please go to Gustavus.edu, and we can't wait to show you what Gustavus are all about.