Archive for October, 2018
Laurent Déchery (Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures & Philosophy)
Laurent Déchery published a book, Lire est un roman (Reading Is a Novel). It is a mix of literary promenades, essays on reading, interpretation of Patrick Modiano’s “Chien de Printemps” and Diderot’s tales, and autobiographical pieces.
Hayley Russell (Health and Exercise Science)
Hayley Russell, with colleagues and a former student from the University of Minnesota, published an article in Sport Sciences for Health examining if core training and plyometric training can improve performance and prevent injury and muscle damage in marathon runners.
Rose Jost (Nursing)
Rose Jost was just awarded the State Community Health Services Advisory Committee (SCHSAC) Award for Ourstanding Dedication to Local Public Health, awarded to individuals who have made a significant contribution to the promotion and implementation of local public health in Minnesota.
Seán Easton (Classics)
Seán Easton presented a paper entitled “The Pedagogical Value of Combining Conflict Resolution Models and Premodern History” at the annual meeting of the Peace and Justice Studies Association at Arcadia University in Glenside, Pennsylvania.
Priscilla Briggs (Art)
Priscilla Briggs had works from her photographic series, “Fortune,” included in a major international exhibition, “Civilization: The Collective Life,” which will open this month at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul, Korea. The exhibit will subsequently travel to the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing, China, the National Gallery of […]
Jeff Jenson (Library)
Jeff A. Jenson participated in the 53rd Annual Northern Great Plains History Conference, where he chaired a session on “Midwestern Political History.”
Carlos Mejía Suárez (Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures)
Carlos Mejía Suárez published an article,”La écfrasis del archivo visual del dolor como estrategia narrativa en la novelística de Pablo Montoya” [“The Ekphrasis of Visual Archives of Pain as a Narrative Strategy in Pablo Montoya’s novels”], that appeared in the most recent Revista de Estudios Colombianos (#51). The article studies ekphrasis as a way to […]
Alberto Urquidez (Philosophy)
Alberto Urquidez has been selected as one of this year’s “Young Philosophers” by the Prindle Institute for Ethics at DePauw University. He will be sharing his research on racism at the Institute in November.
Glenn Kranking (History)
Glenn Kranking was a discussant on a panel of Scandinavian History at the Northern Great Plains History Conference.