Archive for 2024Page 2
Faculty Spotlight: Hayley Russell
Hayley Russell (Health and Exercise Science) is serving as a Sport and Exercise Psychology “Motion Expert” for Twin Cities in Motion (TCM) this year. Motion Experts are a team of credentialed professionals from a variety of health and fitness related disciplines who share evidence-based information in the TCM newsletter. You can find more information and […]
Faculty Spotlight: Joshua Brown
Joshua Brown (Philosophy) and Nathan Wildman (Tilburg University) published a paper “The Necessity of Naturalness,” in the journal Erkenntnis.
Faculty Spotlight: Lisa Heldke
Lisa Heldke (Philosophy) presented an invited session with her collaborator, Cynthia Belliveau of the University of Vermont, at the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy conference in Boston. The title of their session was, “The John Dewey Kitchen Institute: Recipes, Problems, Inquiry and Democracy.”
Faculty Spotlight: Dario Sanchez-Gonzalez
Darío Sánchez-González (Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures) recently taught a class in Shana Komitee’s course “Vibrant Legacies in Theater” at the Juilliard School in New York City. The class, “Federico García Lorca: Half a Loaf of Bread and a Book in a Wooden Basket,” focused on the Spanish poet and playwright’s views on artistic inspiration […]
Faculty Spotlight: Severine Bates
Séverine Bates (Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures) and Brianne Twaddle (Technology Services) co-presented at the annual Minnesota College Personnel Association conference in early March. This year’s conference theme was anti-racism, Inclusion, and belonging in higher ed, and they presented on “Employee Resource Groups in Higher Education,” with a focus on the BIPOC and accomplices Employee […]
Faculty Spotlight: Aaron Banks
Aaron Banks (Health and Exercise Science) was featured in an article in MinnesotaAthletes.com about his career as an All-American and record-breaking shot putter and discus thrower.
Faculty Spotlight: Sharon Marquart and Martha Ndakalako
Sharon Marquart, (Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures & Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies) and Martha Ndakalako (English) co-organized the seminar “Forms and Theories of Care: Approaches for the Future” at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association in Montreal, Canada.
Faculty Spotlight: Kris Lowe
Kristen Lowe (Art and Art History) has a chapter dedicated to her artwork in the book, The Essential Dear Dara, Writings on Local Characters and Memorable Places, published this year by the Minnesota Historical Society. The Chapter is entitled “Primeval Connection.”
Faculty Spotlight: Hayley Russell
Hayley Russell (Health and Exercise Science) and her colleagues at the University of Minnesota published a paper titled, “Psychological responses during latter rehabilitation and return to sport following ACL reconstruction surgery,” in the Journal of Athletic Training.
Faculty Spotlight: Maria Isabel Kalbermatten
Maria Isabel Kalbermatten (Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures) co-authored the article “Tato Bores, Monólogo 2000: carnaval, sátira política y destrucción de la autoridad” (In Spanish) with Alicia Ocampo. Examining the discourse of the renowned Argentine humorist Mauricio Benjamín Borensztein (1927–1996), known as Tato Bores, the authors delve into his iconic televised political monologues from 1957 […]