Archive for January, 2021

Faculty Spotlight: Yurie Hong

Yurie Hong (Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies) was interviewed for a Star Tribune article focusing on the Saint Peter area as a political swing district.

Faculty Spotlight: Betsy Byers

Betsy Byers (Art and Art History) was featured in the Mankato Free Press about an upcoming multimedia project focusing on climate change and glacier loss. Byers was also mentioned in the Star Tribune regarding a gallery show that is currently showing her work in Minneapolis.

Faculty Spotlight: Peg O’Connor

Peg O’Connor (Philosophy) was quoted in a New York Times article that discussed fantasizing, daydreaming, and focusing on positive future plans as a way of dealing with difficult times associated with COVID-19 and more.

Faculty Spotlight: Lynnea Myers

Lynnea Myers (Nursing) did a virtual presentation for the Roots of Autism and ADHD Annual Conference at the Center for Neurodevelopmental Disorders at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden in January 2021. The title of her talk was “Does the Face Predict the Brain.”

Faculty Spotlight: Dwight Stoll

Dwight Stoll (Chemistry) published an article in the Journal of Chromatography, A entitled: “Numerical and experimental investigation of analyte breakthrough from sampling loops used for multi-dimensional liquid chromatography.” Coauthors included Gustavus staff scientist Thomas Lauer, and collaborators from the Free University of Brussels in Belgium.

Faculty Spotlight: Ursula Lindqvist

Ursula Lindqvist (Scandinavian Studies) served as expert moderator for a public Zoom webinar on January 12, 2021, titled “Race in the Colonial Past and Present” with Danish-Trinidadian artist Jeannette Ehlers and U.S. Virgin Islands artist La Vaughn Belle, co-creators of the monumental “I Am Queen Mary” public statue installed in front of the Danish West […]

Faculty Spotlight: Lynnea Myers

Lynnea Myers (Nursing), along with colleagues from the Karolinska Institute (Stockholm, Sweden) and Nationwide Children’s Hospital (Columbus, Ohio) recently published an article titled “Actionable and incidental neuroradiological findings in twins with neurodevelopmental disorders” in Scientific Reports.

Faculty Spotlight: Kathy Lund Dean

Kathy Lund Dean (Economics and Management) had two articles appear at the end of 2020. The first, titled “Premises, promises and perils of the Academic Potemkin Village,” was published in Management Learning, and argues for leveraging collaboration and consortia in higher education as one solution to financial distress. The second, titled “Experiential pedagogy and the […]