Archive for January, 2020

Faculty Spotlight: Barbara Fister

Barbara Fister (Library, Emerita) was on an hourlong Minnesota Public Radio segment covering information literacy, disinformation/misinformation, and “fake news” as it pertains to high school and college students.

Faculty Spotlight: Hayley Russell and Lucie Holmgreen

Hayley Russell (Health and Exercise Science) and Lucie Holmgreen (Psychological Science) presented a webinar on student-athlete and coach mental health to Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference coaches.

Faculty Spotlight: Yurie Hong

Yurie Hong (Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies) has been named a winner of the Mankato YWCA Woman of Distinction Award. The official award ceremony will take place Thursday, April 2, 2020.

Faculty Spotlight: Marta Podemska-Mikluch

Marta Podemska-Mikluch (Economics and Management) had a paper, “Minimum Wage and Employment Growth,” accepted for publication in International Advances in Economic Research. This paper was co-authored with Shaun Gilyard ’19, who is now pursuing a PhD in economics at West Virginia University. Their research was made possible by a Presidential Student-Faculty Collaboration Grant awarded for […]

Faculty Spotlight: Kathleen Keller

Kathleen Keller (History) presented a paper titled “From Prince to Marabout and Traitor: Mamadou Kane” as part of a panel on global biography in the French Empire at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association in New York City.

Faculty Spotlight: Maddalena Marinari

Maddalena Marinari (History) published her first monograph, Unwanted: Italian and Jewish Mobilization against Restrictive Immigration Laws, 1882–1965. The book examines how, from 1882 to 1965, Italian and Jewish reformers profoundly influenced the country’s immigration policy as they mobilized against immigration laws that marked them as undesirable.

Faculty Spotlight: Kjerstin Moody and Jeff La Frenierre

Kjerstin Moody (Scandinavian Studies) presented the talk “Global Solutions: Signs of Transition to a Positive Future” on Thursday, November 21, 2019, at the American Swedish Institute in Minneapolis as part of the University of Minnesota’s OLLI (Osher Lifelong Learning Institute) seven-week course on “Climate Change – What Every Senior Needs to Know.” Jeff La Frenierre […]

Faculty Spotlight: Yurie Hong

Yurie Hong (Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies) participated in the Presidential Panel, “Central and Marginal in Classical Studies,” at the annual meeting of the Society for Classical Studies in Washington DC on January 5, 2020. She presented on diversity in Classics and the possibilities facing individuals and institutions going forward.

Faculty Spotlight: Darsa Donelan

Darsa Donelan (Physics), with support from departmental colleagues and physics students, won a $1,000 Women in Physics Group grant from the American Physical Society that will be used to support programming at Gustavus.

Faculty Spotlight: Yuta Kawarasaki

Yuta Kawarasaki (Biology) published an article titled “Is rapid cold-hardening an aerobic process? Characterization of changes in metabolic activity during its induction and effects of anoxia in flesh fly” in Journal of Insect Physiology with coauthors Alyssa Welle ’19 and Michael Elnitsky.