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  • Faculty Spotlight: Yumiko Oshima-Ryan

    Faculty Spotlight: Yumiko Oshima-Ryan

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    Yumiko Oshima-Ryan (Music) will present a lecture-recital at the 67th National Conference of The College Music Society in Washington, D.C., titled, “Introducing Improvising Skills with Musica Nara for Piano 2005 (by Minako Tokuyama) – A New Teaching Approach for Classically Trained Pianists”, and will include this piece for piano.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Hayley Russell

    Faculty Spotlight: Hayley Russell

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    Hayley Russell (Health and Exercise Science), Ellen Becken ’25, Lucie Henrich ’25, and Charlie Potts (Student Life) were featured in a Minnesota Star Tribune story focused on their interdisciplinary research on the fitness tracking app Strava and its positive and negative impacts on users’ motivation and mental health.

  • Faculty Spotlight: JC Sanford

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    JC Sanford (Music) was awarded a MAP Fund microgrant and was acknowledged as a “Rising Star” trombonist in DownBeat Magazine’s Annual Critic’s Poll.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Blake Couey

    Faculty Spotlight: Blake Couey

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    Blake Couey (Religion) wrote the introduction, annotations, and excursuses for the book of Isaiah in the new Westminster Study Bible (Westminster John Knox Press, 2024). This study Bible is intended for use in liberal arts classes, and the invited contributors are biblical scholars who teach undergraduate institutions.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Marcia Bunge

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    Marcia J. Bunge (Religion) co-wrote an op-ed with seven leading scholars… from the USA and Germany, which was published in German’s leading newspaper, DIE ZEIT, on October 17. The statement warns against the misuse of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (a Lutheran theologian who challenged the Nazi regime and was executed in 1945) to promote political violence and…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Ursula Lindqvist

    Faculty Spotlight: Ursula Lindqvist

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    Ursula Lindqvist (Scandinavian Studies) published an op-ed “A Path Toward Reconciliation and Healing at Gustavus Adolphus College,” in the Minnesota Star Tribune. The article discusses her research into Dakota Native People’s and white settler history in the Saint Peter/Mankato area.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Lai Sze Tso

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    Lai Sze Tso (Sociology and Anthropology) has been appointed to serve as on the Education Board of the American Public Health Association, one of the largest public health non-profits in the U.S.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Marcia Bunge

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    Marcia J. Bunge (Religion) gave a lecture on child protection at the University of Erfurt, Germany, in June, and she joined scholars and practitioners from diverse disciplines and over 75 countries at the annual conference of the International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect in Uppsala, Sweden, in August.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Hayley Russell

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    Hayley Russell (Health and Exercise Science) was interviewed for a Minnesota Star Tribune story on coping with post-marathon feelings.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Kathleen Keller

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    Kathleen Keller (History) presented a paper titled “Black, French, and Living in Occupied France” at a conference on Global Black Studies at Boston College on October 3, 2024.