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  • Faculty Spotlight: Kathleen Keller

    Faculty Spotlight: Kathleen Keller

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    Kathleen Keller (History) published a book review as part of an H-environment roundtable on the book, Starving Empire, by Yan Slobodkin. The roundtable is available online.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Erik Gulbranson

    Faculty Spotlight: Erik Gulbranson

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    Erik Gulbranson (Environment, Geography, and Earth Sciences) was invited to serve as a panel member for the Life and Environments through Time (LET) program at the National Science Foundation (NSF). LET is one of the new programs in the Division of Earth Sciences at NSF that consolidates two or more previous programs.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Sharon Marquart

    Faculty Spotlight: Sharon Marquart

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    Sharon Marquart (Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures & Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies) served as a panelist for a discussion on “Female Voices: On Progress, Setbacks, and Oppression” hosted by the Alliance Française Minneapolis-Saint Paul. The event was part of the nationwide “Night of Ideas” sponsored by the French Embassy in the United States and…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Sarah Lahasky

    Faculty Spotlight: Sarah Lahasky

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    Sarah Lahasky (Music) has been selected to participate in the American Musicological Society’s 2025 Summer Institute “Music of the United States: Telling Our Stories,” where she will work with primary source materials at the Smithsonian Institution and Library of Congress to develop teaching materials for MUS 205: ‘America’s’ Music.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Sheng-Ping Yang

    Faculty Spotlight: Sheng-Ping Yang

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    Sheng-Ping Yang (Business and Economics) was recently featured on WalletHub.com. He shared his insights in an article about the Best Auto and Home Insurance Companies

  • Faculty Spotlight: Blake Couey

    Faculty Spotlight: Blake Couey

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    Blake Couey (Religion) presented his paper “Bird Reproduction and Empire in First Isaiah” at the virtual conference Humanimal 2.0: The Bible and “Animal” Others on Mar. 6.

  • 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”.