Archive for October, 2022

Brandon Dean, 2022 Faculty Service Award Winner

Brandon Dean (Music) was selected as the 2022 recipient of the Gustavus Faculty Service Award. Presented each year at Founder’s Day, this award is the highest accolade a Gustavus faculty member can receive for distinguished service activities.

Faculty Spotlight: Julie Bartley

Julie Bartley (Environment, Geography, and Earth Sciences) published a paper with several colleagues in The Planetary Science Journal. The article, titled “Using rover-analogous methodology to discriminate between volcanic and sedimentary origins in successions dominated by igneous composition,” reports the results of a study that develops criteria for determining whether a rock observed by a planetary […]

Faculty Spotlight: Lisa Heldke

Lisa Heldke (Philosophy) gave a lecture at Colby College — “The Aesthetic Value of Disgusting Experiences: Ruminations on my Compost Bucket” — as part of the Colby Center for the Arts and Humanities yearlong lecture series, “Food for Thought.”

Faculty Spotlight: Melissa Rolnick

Melissa Rolnick (Theatre and Dance) performed “Archive,” choreographed by her colleague Jill Patterson, at the 2022 Women in Dance Leadership Conference. The solo was performed at the Logan Center for the Arts at the University of Chicago on October 15.

Faculty Spotlight: Kjerstin Moody

Kjerstin Moody (Scandinavian Studies) was invited to serve a three-year term on the National Screening Committee for the Fulbright IIE program for Sweden, beginning this academic year. This past June she attended the Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference at Middlebury College’s Bread Loaf campus in Ripton, Vermont. She was one of eight selected participants for the […]

Faculty Spotlight: Bonnie Reimann

Bonnie Reimann (Health and Exercise Science) has been chosen to receive the Minnesota Society of Health and Physical Educators’ (MNSHAPE) Lou Keller Award. This award honors and recognizes outstanding services and contributions given by a college or university professor or other professional worker (public school teachers exempted) in the fields of health, physical education, recreation […]

Faculty Spotlight: Lisa Heldke

Lisa Heldke (Philosophy), along with her co-creator Cynthia Belliveau from the University of Vermont, is the recipient of the 2022 John Dewey Society Award for Outstanding Achievement, for their creation of the John Dewey Kitchen Institute. The award is given to “that individual or those individuals who, in the judgment of the committee, has or […]

Faculty Spotlight: Hayley Russell

Hayley Russell (Health and Exercise Science) gave a talk entitled “Mental Miles: Race Day Focus and Confidence” at the Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon Expo on September 30 and October 1.