Provost

Day: November 14, 2025

  • Faculty Spotlight: Erik Gulbranson 

    Faculty Spotlight: Erik Gulbranson 

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    Erik Gulbranson (Environment, Geography, and Earth Science) is giving an invited presentation at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. The lecture,“Physical and biogeochemical processes of iron mineralization in surface and subsurface environments,” is part of the formal collaboration between Gulbranson, the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro; and Vale, which is the largest iron mining…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Kathy Lund Dean

    Faculty Spotlight: Kathy Lund Dean

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    Kathy Lund Dean (Business and Economic) has published “‘I’m Not That Kind of Doctor:’ Experiential Learning as the Student Mental Health and Wellbeing Superpower” in the Journal of Management Inquiry. She argues that faculty should resist expectations and assumptions that they can serve as mental health providers for students. Instead, she links World Health Organization wellbeing and…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Elizabeth Danka

    Faculty Spotlight: Elizabeth Danka

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    Elizabeth Danka (Biology) accompanied eleven Gustavus students as they presented their research at the Midstates Consortium for Math and Science Undergraduate Research Symposium at Washington University in St. Louis. The student presenters were: Geneva Fackler (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Japanese Studies), Samara Goltz (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology), Elsa Johnson (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology), Abby…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Amanda Nienow

    Faculty Spotlight: Amanda Nienow

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    Amanda Nienow (Chemistry) accompanied seven Gustavus students to the Midstates Consortium of Math and Science-sponsored Physical Sciences, Mathematics and Computer Science Undergraduate Research Symposium at the University of Chicago, where she also gave the invited Janet Andersen Award Lecture, “Chasing Light, Cultivating Purpose: Undergraduate Research in Environmental Chemistry.” The students presented their research alongside their…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Chad Winterfeldt

    Faculty Spotlight: Chad Winterfeldt

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    Chad Winterfeldt (Music/Chaplains’ Office) will present a guest organ recital at the Cathedral of Saint Joseph the Workman in LaCrosse, Wisconsin, on Sunday, November 16 at 3:30 p.m. This longstanding guest artist concert series features monthly performances on the 94-rank Noack pipe organ in the Cathedral; Chad’s performance will include works by J.S. Bach, Eugène…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Erik Gulbranson

    Faculty Spotlight: Erik Gulbranson

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    Erik Gulbranson (Environment, Geography, and Earth Sciences) has been appointed as an Associate Editor (2026–2028) for the journal GSA Bulletin, a high-impact scholarly journal of the Geological Society of America.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Doug Huff

    Faculty Spotlight: Doug Huff

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    Doug Huff (Philosophy, retired) recently published a novel, The Silk Road, an international espionage thriller.