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Category: Faculty Activities

  • Faculty Spotlight: Glenn Kranking

    Faculty Spotlight: Glenn Kranking

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    Glenn Kranking (History and Scandinavian Studies) lectured at the University of Tartu (Estonia), hosted by the Department of Scandinavian Studies and the Nordic Council of Ministers’ Nordic Cafe, titled “European Minorities: Reflections on Minorities by way of the Estonian-Swedes.” He was also a featured speaker at the Estonian National Museum’s 3-day conference on the Estonian-Swedes,…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Brenda Kelly

    Faculty Spotlight: Brenda Kelly

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    Brenda Kelly (Provost’s Office, Chemistry & Biology) has been named the next President at the College of St. Scholastica in Duluth, Minn. The College of St. Scholastica’s announcement is available online.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Carlos Mejia Suarez

    Faculty Spotlight: Carlos Mejia Suarez

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    Carlos Mejía Suárez (Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures) celebrated the release of his new novel El señor de las erratas (The Lord of Typos) with the publisher Calixta Editores. Writer Luis Izquierdo introduced Carlos and engaged him in conversation during the event, which took place at Le Tiende in Bogotá on February 28. The novel…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Kate Keller

    Faculty Spotlight: Kate Keller

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    Kate Keller (History) presented on her book in progress, A Magnificent Fraud: An African Life in Twentieth Century France, as part of a roundtable titled “Imperial Grifters: Understanding Fraud in the Modern French Empire” at the Society for French Historical Studies in Philadelphia on March 7.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Justin Knoepfel

    Faculty Spotlight: Justin Knoepfel

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    Justin Knoepfel (Music) recently served as a guest orchestra clinician for both the Lake Conference Orchestra Festival and the Metro West Conference Orchestra Festival, providing technical guidance and artistic mentorship to some of the area’s top high school ensembles. Furthermore, he served as the high school guest conductor for the 14th annual StringFest held at…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Kristen Lowe

    Faculty Spotlight: Kristen Lowe

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    Kristen Lowe (Art and Art History) has a solo exhibition, Lines of Resistance, an Evolution of Animal representation in Nature, at Artistry’s Inez Greenberg Galley located at the Bloomington Center for the Arts. Learn more online; the exhibit runs through April 5, 2026.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Christopher Flynn

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    Christopher Flynn (History) had an article entitled “Sport at War: Nithard’s Strasbourg Cavalry Games of 842” published in The International Journal of the History of Sport.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Kate Keller

    Faculty Spotlight: Kate Keller

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    Kathleen Keller (History) had a letter to the editor published in the New York Times on Feb 19. The letter connects contemporary events in Minnesota to the history of Native Americans in the state.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Marta Podemska-Mikluch

    Faculty Spotlight: Marta Podemska-Mikluch

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    Marta Podemska-Mikluch (Business and Economics) published a new article in the European Economic Review, titled “Forgone innovation: regulation as pruning of the adjacent possible.” The paper examines how regulation can shape innovation not only through immediate costs and benefits, but by limiting which combinations of technologies and organizational models are possible to explore. Drawing on…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Erik Gulbranson

    Faculty Spotlight: Erik Gulbranson

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    Erik Gulbranson (Environment, Geography, and Earth Sciences) published a paper with former student Dr. Julia McIntosh entitled “Estimating paleotemperature using stable isotopes of soil-formed phyllosilicates from paleosols: A review” in the journal Earth-Science Reviews. This work represents 19 years of method development and refinement by the authors at the University of California Davis and Gustavus…