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  • Faculty Spotlight: Ursula Lindqvist

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    Ursula Lindqvist (Scandinavian Studies) served as expert moderator for a public Zoom webinar on January 12, 2021, titled “Race in the Colonial Past and Present” with Danish-Trinidadian artist Jeannette Ehlers and U.S. Virgin Islands artist La Vaughn Belle, co-creators of the monumental “I Am Queen Mary” public statue installed in front of the Danish West…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Lynnea Myers

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    Lynnea Myers (Nursing), along with colleagues from the Karolinska Institute (Stockholm, Sweden) and Nationwide Children’s Hospital (Columbus, Ohio) recently published an article titled “Actionable and incidental neuroradiological findings in twins with neurodevelopmental disorders” in Scientific Reports.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Kathy Lund Dean

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    Kathy Lund Dean (Economics and Management) had two articles appear at the end of 2020. The first, titled “Premises, promises and perils of the Academic Potemkin Village,” was published in Management Learning, and argues for leveraging collaboration and consortia in higher education as one solution to financial distress. The second, titled “Experiential pedagogy and the…

  • New Book for Dean Valerie Banschbach

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    Dean Valerie Banschbach has edited a book, Pipeline Pedagogy: Teaching about Energy and Environmental Justice Contestations, which is forthcoming from Springer Nature Publishers for 2021 release. The volume is co-edited by Jessica Rich. Banschbach also is co-author of a chapter in the book, entitled “The Pipeline Case: Cross-disciplinary Learning and Pedagogical Lessons from the Mountain…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Sheng Yang

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    Sheng Yang (Economics and Management) was recently invited to join the Reviewer Board of the Journal of Risk and Financial Management. JRFM is an international peer-reviewed open access journal published by MDPI. It is ranked B in the 2019 ABDC Journal Quality List and has been indexed by a number of databases, including the Emerging…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Yurie Hong

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    Yurie Hong (Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies) was the Graduate Forum invited speaker at University of Wisconsin-Madison and presented a public lecture entitled “Between Appreciation and Complicity: A Korean-American take on the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, Arranged Marriage, and Women’s Honor.” She also led a graduate workshop on transferable skills and the connections between Classics…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Julie Gilbert

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    Julie Gilbert (Library) was interviewed twice in November on KTOE. She first spoke about her work as a librarian and later returned to discuss her forthcoming young adult novel, Cemetery Songs, which will be released on December 15, 2020.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Betsy Byers

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    Betsy Ruth Byers (Art and Art History) will receive a $10,000 grant through Kolman and Pryor Gallery’s 10th anniversary initiative called the Project Space. Byers is among a group of five artists to receive the grants, which will provide them with funds, technical support, and exhibition space needed to create important projects that will significantly…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Yurie Hong

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    Yurie Hong (Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies) presented a talk entitled “The Long and Winding Road: Intersectional Organizing and Coalition-Building” at the Minnesota Rural Equity Summit on October 16, 2020. Hong also delivered a lecture at Augustana College entitled “Birthing Ideas in Ancient Greece and the Modern World” on October 17 as part of their…

  • Intersections: Number 52 (Fall 2020)

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    Intersections is a publication by and largely for the academic communities of the twenty-seven institutions that comprise the Network of ELCA Colleges and Universities (NECU). Each issue reflects on the intersection of faith, learning, and teaching within Lutheran higher education. It is published by the NECU, and has its home in the Presidential Center for Faith…