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Month: February 2025

  • Amanda Hukee Library Career Internship

    Amanda Hukee Library Career Internship

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    During the Fall 2024 term, Amanda Hukee ’25 ,completed an internship in the Folke Bernadotte Memorial Library. Dan Mollner, her faculty sponsor, interviewed her about the experience. Could you say a few words about your internship at the Folke Bernadotte Memorial Library? What were your goals for the experience? What did your daily routine look…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Lai Sze Tso

    Faculty Spotlight: Lai Sze Tso

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    Lai Sze Tso (Sociology and Anthropology) presented her paper “Sandwich Caregivers and the Eldercare Ecosystem in Minnesota” at the Applied Demography Conference –Population Association of America Annual Meeting in Tucson, AZ. She also served as a panel reviewer for the Cultural Expression Grant for the Minnesota State Arts Board in 2024-25.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Kate Knutson

    Faculty Spotlight: Kate Knutson

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    Kate Knutson (Political Science) presented a paper coauthored with Rachel Flynn (Library) titled, “What Am I Reading? How Teaching Genre Improves Civic Skills” at the American Political Science Association Teaching and Learning Conference in Alexandria, Virginia. Knutson also was selected to participate in the 2025 Minnesota Young American Leaders Program hosted by the University of…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Marcia Bunge

    Faculty Spotlight: Marcia Bunge

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    Marcia J. Bunge (Religion) was invited by the University of Erfurt in Germany to give virtual lecture on her child-related research for the university’s interdisciplinary course on “The Well-being of the Child: Promotion, Protection, Rights”.

  • Mellon Foundation Awards $500,000 for Multi-Year Art History Project, Object Lessons

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    In December 2024, Gustavus Adolphus College was awarded a $500,000 grant by the Mellon Foundation to support Object Lessons: Repatriation, Provenance, and Access in Art History, a project led by Dr. Colleen Stockmann. Gustavus Adolphus College stewards over one thousand artworks and objects in the Hillstrom Museum of Art and College Archives that span five…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Elizabeth Baer

    Faculty Spotlight: Elizabeth Baer

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    Elizabeth Baer (English, retired) presented a Zoom lecture “The Girl in the Green Sweater,” to an audience of 200 people around the world on February 1, 2025. The talk was sponsored by Knitting History Forum, a British organization, and told the story of a sweater worn by a young girl hiding from the Nazis in…