Month: December 2017
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Jennifer Nevitt (Art and Art History)
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Jennifer Nevitt was featured in the Star Tribune for her current exhibit at the Minneapolis Institute of Art.
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Hayley Russell (Health and Exercise Science)
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Hayley Russell published an article, “Physical Activity in Former Competitive Athletes: The Physical and Psychological Impact of Musculoskeletal Injury” in Quest. Although competitive athletes exceed recommendations for physical activity while they are competing in sport, this does not necessarily translate into regular physical activity after retirement from sport. In this paper, we propose the physical…
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Marcia Bunge (Religion)
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Marcia Bunge was invited by Queen’s University (Ontario, Canada) to serve as a theological adviser for an interdisciplinary project devoted to child protection. As part of the project, she met at Queen’s on October 19-21 with a team of 25 social scientists, public health researchers, Indigenous leaders, church leaders, and religious scholars to craft a…
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Lucie Holmgreen (Psychological Science)
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Lucie Holmgreen published a book chapter, “Conservation of resources theory: Resource caravans and passageways in health contexts” in The Handbook of Stress and Health: A Guide to Research and Practice.
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Heidi Meyer (Nursing)
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Heidi Meyer presented a podium session at the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN’s) 2017 Baccalaureate Education Conference. The conference was focused on leadership and innovation in delivering high quality nursing programs. This presentation, titled “Integrating Emotional Intelligence Concepts in Teaching Practices: Academic Nurse Educators’ Experiences, Opinions, and Attitudes,” discussed pilot study results and…
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Amy Seham (Theatre and Dance)
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Northwestern University Press has invited Amy Seham to write a follow-up to her first book, Whose Improv Is It, Anyway? The new book is expected in 2019.
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Kristen Lowe (Art)
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Kristen Lowe served on a jury panel for the Minnesota State Arts Board in the media arts category. Lowe served as a juror that selects recipients for a Minnesota state funded grant, The Artist Initiative Grant. The grant provides resources and time for artists to develop and advance their work in the public sphere.
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Eric Dugdale (Classics) and Loramy Gerstbauer (Political Science)
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Eric Dugdale and Loramy Gerstbauer published an article, “Forms of Justice in Aeschylus’ Eumenides” in Polis, the Journal for Ancient Political Science. The article was part of the Möbius Initiative, which supports collaboration across disciplinary boundaries.
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Elizabeth Baer (English)
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Elizabeth Baer published her fifth book in November. Entitled The Genocidal Gaze: From German Southwest Africa to the Third Reich (Wayne State UP), the book delineates a genocide the Germans committed in their colony in Africa between 1904-1907, and demonstrates how that genocide served as a precursor to the Nazi Holocaust through the ideology and…
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Leila Brammer (Communication Studies)
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Leila Brammer published a chapter, “Assessment though a Deliberative Pedagogy Learning Outcomes Rubric” in Deliberative Pedagogy (Michigan State University Press). Brammer also published a book chapter, “Deliberative Pedagogy as a Central Tenet: First-Year Students Develop a Course” in Deliberative Pedagogy (Michigan State University Press).