Month: October 2020
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Faculty Spotlight: Yurie Hong
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Yurie Hong (Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies) was a panelist for a session entitled “Getting it White: Activism Out of the Armchair” sponsored by The Women’s Center at MSU Mankato. This panel was the third in a three-part series on fighting white supremacy both on campus and off.
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Faculty Spotlight: Glenn Kranking
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Glenn Kranking (History and Scandinavian Studies) was a featured participant in the webinar “Propaganda Everywhere: Teaching Propaganda Across the Disciplines,” hosted by Media Education Lab. His participation arose from his history seminar course, We Want You: Propaganda in the Modern World.
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Faculty Spotlight: Lynnea Myers
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Lynnea Myers (Nursing) recently co-published an article with colleagues at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden: Becker, Martin, et al. “Presynaptic Dysfunction in CASK-Related Neurodevelopmental Disorders” in Translational Psychiatry.
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Education Faculty and Students Present at the National Association for Multicultural Education Conference
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Associate Professor of Education Lisa Dembouski and students Payton Buss ’21, Casey Olson ’21, Abbie Ranzau ’21, and Andrew Stumbo ’21 presented Teaching and Teacher Preparation *as* Activism for Peace and Justice at the 30th Annual (and first ever virtual) National Association for Multicultural Education (N.A.M.E.) Conference, October 9-10, 2020. Their interactive discussion shared the experiences…
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History Professor and Two Students Receive COVID-19 Research Grant
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History professor Maddalena Marinari, along with professor Erika Lee of the University of Minnesota and Gustavus history majors Catherine Lim and Lillie Ortloff, have been awarded a SSRC COVID-19 Rapid Response Grant from the Social Science Research Council. Of over 1000 applicants, they are one of 62 recipients of the grants. Their project, titled “Documenting…
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Faculty Spotlight: Ian Hill
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Ian Hill (Chemistry) published an article with collaborators, “Isomorphous Substitutions in Luminescent Materials Based on ScVO4”, in Materials Science and Smart Materials.
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Faculty Spotlight: Lisa Ortmann
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Lisa Ortmann (Education) published an article in Reading Horizons titled “The Learner Profiles of Novice Literacy Coaches” which was a multi-year and multi-institutional study of the ways new literacy coaches learn coaching discourses.