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  • Faculty Spotlight: Ursula Lindqvist

    Faculty Spotlight: Ursula Lindqvist

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    Ursula Lindqvist (Scandinavian Studies) has received two external grants to conduct archival research during her sabbatical on Swedish settler immigration to, and settlement in, Minnesota around the time of Gustavus’ founding. The first is an international research grant funded by the Linnaeus University Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies and The Swedish Emigrant…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Betsy Byers

    Faculty Spotlight: Betsy Byers

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    Betsy Byers (Art and Art History) will be participating in the third annual Saint Peter Art Stroll. She will have her home studio open and will be selling original acrylic and watercolor paintings and prints along with alumni Olivia Norquist ’23, whose watercolors will be available for purchase. The Art Stroll is an opportunity to…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Ursula Lindqvist

    Faculty Spotlight: Ursula Lindqvist

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    Ursula Lindqvist (Scandinavian Studies) gave a public lecture “Denmark in Global Cinema,” at the 78th annual Danebod Folk Meeting in Tyler, Minnesota, on Aug. 28. The gathering draws participants from multiple states and is inspired by the Danish folk school movement founded in the 19th century by N.F.S. Grundtvig, an influential Danish pastor, author, poet,…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Kathleen Keller

    Faculty Spotlight: Kathleen Keller

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    Kathleen Keller (History) published a review of the book Empire on the Seine: The Policing of North Africans in Paris, 1925-1975 by Amit Prakash in the American Historical Review‘s September 2024 issue.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Paschal Kyoore

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    Paschal Kyiiripuo Kyoore (Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures) was invited to submit a piece on African culture, with discussion questions for educators and the general public. TED-Ed lessons feature the words and ideas of educators brought to life by professional animators. “The tale of the boy who tricked a tyrant” is a West African Dagara…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Darsa Donelan

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    Zachary Kacmarynski ’22 co-authored an essay with Darsa Donelan (Physics) in the newly published book, “Space, the Feminist Frontier: Essays on Sex and Gender in Star Trek”. Their essay, “Standing Up to Sigma: Destigmatizing the LGBTQ+ Experience in Star Trek: Enterprise”, explores themes of the AIDS crisis, gender identity, and inclusive development as depicted throughout…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Glenn Kranking

    Faculty Spotlight: Glenn Kranking

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    Glenn Kranking (History and Scandinavian Studies) was an invited participant and speaker at the International Symposium on Estonian Swedish History, Culture, and Language in Haapsalu, Estonia. He presented “The Unexpected Benefits of Feuding in the Golden Age of the 1930s.”

  • Faculty Spotlight: Laura Burrack

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    Laura Burrack (Biology) published an article entitled “Erg251 has complex and pleiotropic effects on sterol composition, azole susceptibility, filamentation, and stress response phenotypes” in PLoS Pathogens together with several collaborators, including Gustavus students Bode Hogan ’26 and Tessa Bierbaum ’23.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Chad Winterfeldt

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    Chad Winterfeldt (Music/Chaplains Office) opened the annual Summer Noontime Organ Recital series in Mankato on June 18 with a program of Juneteenth celebration at Christ the King Lutheran Church in Mankato. All the music Winterfeldt performed was by Black composers, including Florence Price, Uzee Brown Jr., Adolphus Hailstork, and Fela Sowande. Sponsored by the Sioux…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Jim Parejko

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    Jim Parejko (Biology) published an article “Climate change and plant rhizosphere microbiomes: an experiential course-embedded research project” in the Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education that is based on a course-embedded research project that was used in BIO 344: Exploring Microbiomes in the fall of 2023.