Month: July 2024
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Faculty Spotlight: Chad Winterfeldt
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Chad Winterfeldt (Music/Chaplains Office) opened the annual Summer Noontime Organ Recital series in Mankato on June 18 with a program of Juneteenth celebration at Christ the King Lutheran Church in Mankato. All the music Winterfeldt performed was by Black composers, including Florence Price, Uzee Brown Jr., Adolphus Hailstork, and Fela Sowande. Sponsored by the Sioux…
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Faculty Spotlight: Jim Parejko
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Jim Parejko (Biology) published an article “Climate change and plant rhizosphere microbiomes: an experiential course-embedded research project” in the Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education that is based on a course-embedded research project that was used in BIO 344: Exploring Microbiomes in the fall of 2023.
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Faculty Spotlight: Lauren Hecht and Hayley Russell
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Lucie Henrich ’25, Ellen Becken ’25, Lauren Hecht (Psychological Science), and Hayley Russell (Health and Exercise Science) received a research grant from the Association of Applied Sport Psychology for their project, “Attentional Focus in Long and Short Distance Track Runners,” in which they will use speak-aloud methodology to explore what D-III runners look at and…
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Faculty Spotlight: Blake Couey
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Blake Couey (Religion) published an article “The Poet-Prophet in Leonard Cohen’s ‘Isaiah’” in the summer issue of Perspectives in Religious Studies. The issue honors the career of Richard F. Wilson, Couey’s undergraduate teacher and mentor at Mercer University.
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Faculty Spotlight: Jon Grinnell
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Jon Grinnell (Biology) was featured prominently in a recent New York Times article about bison attacks in Yellowstone Park. Grinnell and his students have researched bison behavior, ecology, and management at a reserve in South Dakota for the last 18 years or so, but, Grinnell says, “it was still a surprise to get an email…
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Faculty Spotlight: Janie Frandsen
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Janie Frandsen (Chemistry and Biology) presented a poster co-authored with students Rachel Trebesch ’25 and Kristin Martens ’23 titled “Transcriptome-wide analysis of E. coli small RNA binding site accessibility in target mRNAs” at the RNA Society Meeting in Edinburgh, Scotland.