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Faculty Spotlight: Kathy Lund Dean
Kathy Lund Dean (Business and Economic) has published “‘I’m Not That Kind of Doctor:’ Experiential Learning as the Student Mental Health and Wellbeing Superpower” in the Journal of Management Inquiry. She argues that faculty should resist expectations and assumptions that they can serve as mental health providers for students. Instead, she links World Health Organization wellbeing and…
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Faculty Spotlight: Elizabeth Danka
Elizabeth Danka (Biology) accompanied eleven Gustavus students as they presented their research at the Midstates Consortium for Math and Science Undergraduate Research Symposium at Washington University in St. Louis. The student presenters were: Geneva Fackler (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Japanese Studies), Samara Goltz (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology), Elsa Johnson (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology), Abby…
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Faculty Spotlight: Amanda Nienow
Amanda Nienow (Chemistry) accompanied seven Gustavus students to the Midstates Consortium of Math and Science-sponsored Physical Sciences, Mathematics and Computer Science Undergraduate Research Symposium at the University of Chicago, where she also gave the invited Janet Andersen Award Lecture, “Chasing Light, Cultivating Purpose: Undergraduate Research in Environmental Chemistry.” The students presented their research alongside their…
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Faculty Spotlight: Chad Winterfeldt
Chad Winterfeldt (Music/Chaplains’ Office) will present a guest organ recital at the Cathedral of Saint Joseph the Workman in LaCrosse, Wisconsin, on Sunday, November 16 at 3:30 p.m. This longstanding guest artist concert series features monthly performances on the 94-rank Noack pipe organ in the Cathedral; Chad’s performance will include works by J.S. Bach, Eugène…
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Faculty Spotlight: Erik Gulbranson
Erik Gulbranson (Environment, Geography, and Earth Sciences) has been appointed as an Associate Editor (2026–2028) for the journal GSA Bulletin, a high-impact scholarly journal of the Geological Society of America.
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Faculty Spotlight: Doug Huff
Doug Huff (Philosophy, retired) recently published a novel, The Silk Road, an international espionage thriller.
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Faculty Spotlight: Marcia Bunge
Marcia J. Bunge (Religion) was invited by the Lilly Endowment to give a presentation at its national gathering of representatives from 295 Lilly-funded projects focused on children, parents, and caregivers held in Indianapolis. Bunge presented a talk entitled “Child-Attentive Theologies: Honoring Children’s Full Humanity, Empowering Ministries” based on insights from her book, Child Theologies: Diverse…
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Faculty Spotlight: Julie Bartley
Julie Bartley (Environment, Geography, and Earth Sciences) and students Miranda Vizoso-Marino (Geology ’27) and Katrinna Deters (Geology, Environmental Studies, and Studio Art ’26) presented their work at the Geological Society of America annual meeting in San Antonio, TX, over Fall Break. Miranda gave a poster titled “Stratigraphic interpretation of stromatolites on a mixed carbonate-clastic platform”;…
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Faculty Spotlight: Jillian Downey and Kate Aguilar
Jillian Downey (Mathematics, Computer Science, and Statistics) and her colleagues have recently started a podcast, Talking Through Teaching Tensions Together (T5), to share a “teaching tension” experienced by post-secondary educators and discuss how they have approached it. The podcast does not try to provide the one right answer to the teaching tensions discussed, but rather…
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Faculty Spotlight: Priscilla Briggs
Priscilla Briggs (Art and Art History) was one of three artists to give the Barbara Bullitt Christian Memorial Lecture in Photography at the Hite Institute of Art and Design, University of Louisville. The lecture was in conjunction with the exhibition, Alteration: Three Approaches to Photographic Intervention, at the Schneider Hall Galleries, featuring Briggs and two…