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  • Faculty Spotlight: Stephanie Otto

    Faculty Spotlight: Stephanie Otto

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    Stephanie Otto ’00 (Health and Exercise Science) served as faculty advisor for students who presented their research at the Northland American College of Sports Medicine conference in Mankato: Avery Rowen ’25, Lillian Selberg ’25, Darius Howad ’25, Jacob Coulimore ’25, and Lauren Miller ’25. The research was titled, “Physical Activity, Sedentary Behavior, and Influencing Factors among University Employees.” These majors…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Elizabeth Baer

    Faculty Spotlight: Elizabeth Baer

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    Elizabeth Baer (English, retired) gave an invited lecture for the Center for Holocaust and Jewish Studies at Penn State, Harrisburg, titled “German Genocide in Africa and the Third Reich: Imperialism, Race, and Sexual Violence.” She drew from her book, The Genocidal Gaze, as well as research conducted since its U.S. publication in 2017 and Africa publication in…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Heidi Meyer

    Faculty Spotlight: Heidi Meyer

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    Heidi Meyer ’98 (Nursing) served as advisor for nursing majors Lakesha Carter ’25 and Adison Dack ’25, who presented their research at the Sigma conference entitled Creating Healthy Work Environments in Phoenix, AZ. They presented their findings from their study, Exploring the Relationship Between Sleep Hygiene and Fatigue in College Students in a rapid rounds oral presentation format. 

  • Faculty Spotlight: Marcia Bunge

    Faculty Spotlight: Marcia Bunge

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    Marcia J. Bunge (Religion) was at Duke University for a meeting of the North American Forum for Luther Research. She presented a paper on the misuse and weaponization of Dietrich Bonhoeffer by the religious right and Christian nationalists today. Bonhoeffer was a Lutheran theologian and anti-Nazi dissident who was executed on orders from Hitler at…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Peg O’Connor

    Faculty Spotlight: Peg O’Connor

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    Peg O’Connor (Philosophy) was a guest in a public health ethics class at New York University. Students had read her book, Higher and Friendly Powers: Transforming Addiction and Suffering, and asked questions about building resources for individuals and communities.

  • 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