Author: snowell
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Gustavus History Department Excels in Public History
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James Baldwin once wrote, “History is not the past. It is the present. We carry our history with us. We are our history.” One of the great challenges of the present is to make sense of how it illuminates the past. The work of public history, an ever-growing field, is for academics to present historical…
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Faculty Spotlight: Dwight Stoll and Daniel Meston
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Dwight Stoll and Daniel Meston (both Chemistry) published a paper in the Journal of Chromatography A, along with co-author Todd Maloney from Eli Lilly and Company. The paper, “Effect of Flow Rate on Plate Height and Resolution for Antisense Oligonucleotides Under Hydrophilic Interaction Liquid Chromatography Conditions”, describes the first measurements of plate height for oligonucleotides…
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Faculty Spotlight: Kate Aguilar
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Kate Aguilar (History) published an article in Time magazine’s Made By History series detailing how the January 9 NCAA Football National Championship semifinals matchup between Notre Dame and Penn State takes on added significance because the winning coach, Notre Dame’s Marcus Freeman or Penn State’s James Franklin, will then become the first Black head coach…
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Faculty Spotlight: JC Sanford
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JC Sanford (Music) received a 2025 Creative Individuals grant from the MN State Arts Board to record his jazz quartet, and his recent CD release, NEW PAST, was recognized as one of the Best Albums of 2024 by DownBeat Magazine.
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Faculty Spotlight: Blake Couey
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Blake Couey (Religion) presented a paper titled “Abecedarian Artistry: An Analysis of Alphabetic Alliteration in the Acrostic Poems of Lamentations” at the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature in San Diego on November 26.
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Faculty Spotlight: Jeff La Frenierre
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Jeff La Frenierre (Environment, Geography, and Earth Sciences) is the co-author of a paper recently published in the Annals of Glaciology, “Automated ablation stakes to constrain temperature-index melt models.”
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Faculty Spotlight: Sheng-Ping Yang
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Sheng-Ping Yang (Business and Economics) recently published a paper “The Determinants and Growth Effects of Foreign Direct Investment: A Comparative Study,” which will appear in the forthcoming 2024 issue of the Journal of Risk and Financial Management. The paper presents a key finding on how policy decisions influence the effects of foreign capital investment on…
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Faculty Spotlight: Kathy Lund Dean
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Kathy Lund Dean (Business and Economics) was re-appointed as Honorary Professor at the University of St. Andrews business school. Her Adjunct Professorship at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand, was also renewed. Both appointments run until mid-2027.
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Faculty Spotlight: Marta Podemska-Mikluch
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Marta Podemska-Mikluch (Business and Economics) recently appeared on the Hayek Program Podcast, hosted by Mikayla Novak, to discuss entangled political economy (EPE)—a sub-discipline of political economy that explores the intricate ways private and public sector exchanges intersect. The Hayek Program Podcast, part of the F.A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics…
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Faculty Spotlight: Hayley Russell
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Hayley Russell (Health and Exercise Science), Lucie Henrich ’25, Ellen Becken ’25, Kate Carlson ’25, Lauren Hecht (Psychological Science), and Lauren MacLean ’24 presented at the Association of Applied Sport Psychology Annual Conference in Las Vegas, NV over fall break. Lucie, Ellen, and Kate presented a poster titled, “Strava is to me what Instagram is…