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  • Laura Triplett (Geology)

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    Laura Triplett was awarded $75,000 from The McKnight Foundation for a one-year project to monitor the effectiveness of land management practices for reducing agricultural pollution entering the Seven Mile Creek in the Minnesota River basin.

  • Seán Easton (Classics)

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    Seán Easton (Classics), Mimi Gerstbauer (Political Science), Brian Konkol (Office of the Chaplains), and Joaquín Villanueva (Geography) attended the 8th Annual Summer Institute for Faculty in Peace Studies – “Teaching Peace in the 21st Century.” The gathering was sponsored by the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and the United States Institute of Peace (USIP).

  • Kathy Lund Dean (Economics and Management)

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    Kathy Lund Dean  and her co-authors have won the 2016 Management Education and Development Global Forum Best Paper Award at the Academy of Management for their paper entitled, “Key Institutions and Discipline Area Competencies in Business and Management Education Research.” The award honors the paper that most effectively advances our understanding of how business education…

  • Suzanne Wilson (Sociology and Anthropology)

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    Suzanne Wilson attended the XXXIV International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association. She presented the paper, “What Is in a Label? A Comparison of the Colombian Paramilitaries and the BACRIM” and organized the panel, “Ambivalent Legality: The Cultural Politics of (De)criminalization in Colombia.”

  • Ursula Lindqvist (Scandinavian Studies)

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    Ursula Lindqvist  has just published two books on Nordic cinema. The first is a monograph titled Roy Andersson’s “Songs from the Second Floor”: Contemplating the Art of Existence. The second is an anthology of 26 original essays commissioned especially for A Companion to Nordic Cinema, which Lindqvist co-edited with Mette Hjort of the University of…

  • Florence Amamoto: Religious Diversity at a Lutheran College

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    I recognize that I have been particularly comfortable here because both Lutheranism and Buddhism support values central to Gustavus—first and foremost, the importance of deep intellectual inquiry. Florence Amamoto Associate Professor of English ### Excerpted from Rooted in a Distinctive Tradition, Open to the World: Reflections Across Campus on the Heritage, Character, and Vision of…

  • Chuck Niederriter: Religious Diversity at a Lutheran College

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    We may be affiliated with the Lutheran church, have Lutheran chaplains, and chapel services, but we are also a very diverse and welcoming community where people of all faiths or no faith can feel comfortable. Chuck Niederriter Professor of Physics ### Excerpted from Rooted in a Distinctive Tradition, Open to the World: Reflections Across Campus…

  • Paschal Kyoore: Religious Diversity at a Lutheran College

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    If I were not an African Catholic at a Lutheran college, then I would not be in such a good position to help my students discuss such examples, understand the complexity of cultures, and respect and appreciate how peoples of other cultures practice their religions. Paschal Kyoore Professor of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures ###…

  • Sarah Ruble: Religious Diversity at a Lutheran College

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    What I would say as an evangelical-ish person to evangelicals (and others) is this: Gustavus’s Lutheran heritage is, yes, a challenge that creates a lot of hard questions. It is also an opportunity. It allows for a dialogue we need in a religious, secular, interconnected, interdependent, overly-armed world. Sarah Ruble Associate Professor of Religion ###…

  • Deborah Goodwin: Core Values Inside and Outside the Classroom

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    Grounded in a sense of calling, alert to the complex, shifting relationships that arise for each life in the world, excellence can be a powerful, steadfast fulcrum, uniting faculty, staff and students to create works of lasting purpose, meaning, and beauty. Deborah L. Goodwin Associate Professor of Religion ### Excerpted from Rooted in a Distinctive…