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Category: Faculty Activities

  • Faculty Spotlight: Lisa Heldke

    Faculty Spotlight: Lisa Heldke

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    Lisa Heldke (Philosophy) was an invited participant in a conference hosted by the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University, on the topic “The Future of Food.” Heldke’s presentation was based on her forthcoming book, Parasitic Personhood and the Ontology of Eating.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Peg O’Connor

    Faculty Spotlight: Peg O’Connor

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    Peg O’Connor (Philosophy) recently presented two papers at international conferences. The first was “Fractured Persons: Wholeness and Unity in Survivors of Sexual Violence,” at the Philosophy of Psychiatry and Lived Experience Conference. The second was “Hindering the Essential Arts of Personhood: The Moral Crisis of Childhood Trauma” at the conference of the Association for Practical…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Glenn Kranking

    Faculty Spotlight: Glenn Kranking

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    Glenn Kranking (History and Scandinavian Studies) presented “Sticking the Debate: Immigration and Refugee Discourse on the Streets of Copenhagen” at the annual Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study Conference.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Julie Bartley

    Faculty Spotlight: Julie Bartley

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    Julie Bartley (Environment, Geography, and Earth Sciences) presented a lecture to the Minnesota Geological Society titled “Stromatolite morphology and diversity–How did (mostly) brainless pond scum build large, complex structures?”

  • Faculty Spotlight: Tom Huber

    Faculty Spotlight: Tom Huber

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    Tom Huber (Physics) co-authored a presentation and proceedings paper, “Simulating scanner- and algorithm-specific 3D CT noise texture using physics-informed 2D and 2.5D generative neural network models” at the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers conference on Medical Imaging in February. The goal of this project is to develop AI Deep Learning models to better understand the…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Tiffany Grobelski

    Faculty Spotlight: Tiffany Grobelski

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    Tiffany Grobelski (Environment, Geography, and Earth Sciences & Peace, Justice, and Conflict Studies) published a research article entitled “Changing the coal status quo through scalar practices: The anti-smog movement’s contributions to Polish energy transition” in the journal Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Lisa Heldke

    Faculty Spotlight: Lisa Heldke

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    Lisa Heldke (Philosophy) spent two days at Eagle Hill School in Hardwick, Massachusetts, leading workshops and participating in an all-school assembly as part of the school’s Reading in Common program. This year’s book was Philosophers at the Table: on Food and Being Human, which Heldke co-authored.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Carlos Mejia Suarez

    Faculty Spotlight: Carlos Mejia Suarez

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    Carlos Mario Mejía Suárez (Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures) received an honorable mention in the 2025 Plentitudes Fiction Prize for his short story “Ants at Rest.” Plentitudes is a quarterly international literary journal based in New York.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Brenda Kelly

    Faculty Spotlight: Brenda Kelly

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    Brenda Kelly (Provost’s Office and Chemistry/Biology) co-authored the undergraduate textbook The Science of Cooking: Understanding the Biology and Chemistry Behind Food and Cooking.

  • 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…