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  • Faculty Spotlight: Hayley Russell

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    Hayley Russell (Health and Exercise Science) presented a paper “Perceived psychosocial implications of Strava use in competitive runners,” co-authored by Charlie Potts (Dean of Students), Megan King ’23, and Evelyn Villalobos ’24 at the Association of Applied Sport Psychology Conference in Orlando, FL.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Yumiko Oshima-Ryan

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    Yumiko Oshima-Ryan (Music) was selected to perform at The Sixty-Sixth National Conference of The College Music Society in Miami, Florida. She performed “Techno Etude II (2020), three movements of solo piano work by Karen Tanaka (b. 1961 – ), at the Showcase Performance III on Saturday, October 28th, Miami Marriott Dadeland.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Dwight Stoll

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    Dwight Stoll (Chemistry) was awarded a supplement for the project, “2D-LC Method Development for Pharmaceutical Analysis” ($20,000).

  • Faculty Spotlight: Dwight Stoll

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    Dwight Stoll (Chemistry) was awarded a supplement for the project, “Deepening Understanding of Reversed-Phase Selectivity for Small Molecule Pharmaceutical Analysis” ($50,000).

  • Faculty Spotlight: Tiffany Grobelski

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    Tiffany Grobelski (Environment, Geography, and Earth Sciences & Peace, Justice, and Conflict Studies) presented a webinar entitled “Project-Based Learning in the World Geography Classroom” for the National Council of Geographic Education. The NCGE is a non-profit organization chartered in 1915 to enhance the status and quality of geography teaching and learning.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Angela Walczyk

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    Angela Walczyk (Biology) published two research articles “Genome material costs and metabolic-tradeoffs in the autopolyploid Solidago gigantea (Giant Goldenrod, Asteraceae) series,” in the American Journal of Botany, and, “Investigating the effects of whole genome duplication on phenotypic plasticity: implications for the invasive success of Giant Goldenrod (Solidago gigantea),” in a special Issue of the journal…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Peg O’Connor

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    Peg O’Connor (Philosophy) published a chapter titled, “Substance Use Disorder and Toxic Relationships,” in Toxic Love Disorder: The Psychology of Toxic Relationships, ed. Linda Greyman (Kolkata, India: The Minds Journal).

  • Faculty Spotlight: Julie Gilbert

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    Julie Gilbert (Library) won the 2023 Best Indie-Published Young Adult Fiction Author award for her novel, “Cemetery Songs“. The award, sponsored by the Minnesota Author Project, MN Writes MN Reads, and the Minnesota Library Foundation, recognizes the best independently published books by Minnesota writers. The award was presented on Oct. 4 at the Minnesota Library…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Glenn Kranking

    Faculty Spotlight: Glenn Kranking

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    Glenn Kranking (History and Scandinavian Studies) taught a session of the Foreign Service Institute’s Nordic and Baltic Area Studies course for U.S. State Department employees heading to the region. His session focused on Nordic history and its contemporary significance in politics and society.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Jeff Jenson

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    Jeff A. Jenson (Library) presented “Minnesotans and Their Most Venomous Reptile, the Timber Rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus)” at the 58th annual Northern Great Plains History Conference in Sioux Falls, SD.