Provost

Day: October 23, 2025

  • Faculty Spotlight: Jillian Downey and Kate Aguilar

    Faculty Spotlight: Jillian Downey and Kate Aguilar

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    Jillian Downey (Mathematics, Computer Science, and Statistics) and her colleagues have recently started a podcast, Talking Through Teaching Tensions Together (T5), to share a “teaching tension” experienced by post-secondary educators and discuss how they have approached it. The podcast does not try to provide the one right answer to the teaching tensions discussed, but rather…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Priscilla Briggs

    Faculty Spotlight: Priscilla Briggs

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    Priscilla Briggs (Art and Art History) was one of three artists to give the Barbara Bullitt Christian Memorial Lecture in Photography at the Hite Institute of Art and Design, University of Louisville. The lecture was in conjunction with the exhibition, Alteration: Three Approaches to Photographic Intervention, at the Schneider Hall Galleries, featuring Briggs and two…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Ursula Lindqvist and David Jessup

    Faculty Spotlight: Ursula Lindqvist and David Jessup

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    Ursula Lindqvist and David Jessup (Scandinavian Studies) participated in the annual Association of Swedish Teachers and Researchers in America (ASTRA) symposium at the Swedish Embassy in Washington, D.C. Dr. Lindqvist presented on the archival research she conducted during her recent sabbatical, “På jakt efter vad Vilhelm Moberg visste om indianerna och hur han fick veta…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Lauren Hecht

    Faculty Spotlight: Lauren Hecht

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    Lucie Henrich ’25, Reese Blondin ’27, Olivia Koeneman ’27, and Lauren Hecht (Psychological Science) presented a poster on attentional focus in short-distance collegiate runners at the Annual Conference for the Association for Applied Sport Psychology. Ellen Becken ’25 and Hayley Russell (St. Francis Xavier University; former Gustavus faculty member) also collaborated on this grant-funded research…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Lisa Heldke

    Faculty Spotlight: Lisa Heldke

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    Lisa Heldke (Philosophy) was an invited speaker at an online symposium, Food and the Microbiome, sponsored by Culinary Mind, a research center and academic network promoting philosophical thinking on food based at University of Milan. Heldke presented a talk entitled “Chomping unto death: a parasitic conception of human personhood,” based on her recently published book…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Priscilla Briggs

    Faculty Spotlight: Priscilla Briggs

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    Priscilla Briggs (Art and Art History) and Cameron Jarvis ’15 have a collaborative exhibition, Free Parking, on view through October at Rosalux Gallery in Minneapolis. Through the exhibit, they explore their lived experiences as they traverse the road, both in a car and on foot. They contemplate the implications and histories of our designed infrastructure,…