Author: snowell
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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.
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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…
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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”.
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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…
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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…
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Gustavus Accounting Program Recognized for CPA Exam Success
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Gustavus Adolphus College is proud to announce that its Accounting program has been ranked 16th among the top 40 medium-sized collegiate accounting programs for CPA Exam success, based on the latest CPA Success Index rankings. This achievement reflects the College’s commitment to academic excellence and the preparation of students for professional success. The CPA Success…
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Faculty Spotlight: Ursula Lindqvist
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Ursula Lindqvist (Scandinavian Studies) published a scholarly book review article… about Tami Navarro’s Virgin Capital: Race, Gender, and Financialization in the US Virgin Islands. Albany: SUNY Press, 2021. Pp. 242,” in Scandinavian Studies issue #97.1 (2025), p. 122–126.
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Faculty Spotlight: Darsa Donelan
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Rose Paddock ’23, former Student Observatory Manager at Gustavus, had her first first-author publication in the Journal of Double Star Observations. The paper, “Albireo Double Star Observations: A Comparative Study Using Unistellar EV, Meade LX600 (10”) and LX200 (16”) Telescopes,” explores the Albireo double star system and compares different telescope designs to assess their value to the astronomical community.…
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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…