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  • Faculty Spotlight: Peg O’Connor

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    Peg O’Connor (Philosophy) is prominently featured in “Is Dry January a Little too Dry for you?” in Salon magazine.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Blake Couey

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    Blake Couey (Religion) presented a paper titled “Animal Cognition in the Book of Isaiah” at the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature in Denver in November 2022. It is part of a larger project that explores the biblical book Isaiah through the interdisciplinary perspective of animal studies. He also had an article, “Hide…

  • Gustavus History Professor Publishes Essay in the Washington Post

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    Professor Kathleen Keller of the history department published an essay in the Washington Post on Tuesday January 10, 2023, titled “China’s Increased Surveillance Capacity Could be Dangerous.” The essay appeared in the Made by History section of the Post which provides historical context to current events. Connecting to recent news about surveillance in China related…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Hayley Russell

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    Hayley Russell (Health and Exercise Science), Charlie Potts (Dean of Students Office), and Emma Nelson ’22 had a research paper published in the Recreational Sports Journal. The paper —”If it’s not on Strava, it didn’t happen: Perceived Psychosocial Implications of Strava Use in Collegiate Club Runners”— examined how college-aged runners utilize Strava, a fitness-tracking social…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Hayley Russell

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    Hayley Russell (Health and Exercise Science) was interviewed for an article in Women’s Running Magazine titled, “Tips for a Positive Post-Season Retrospective: A sports psychologist’s top tips for managing the comparison trap and focusing on next year.”

  • Faculty Spotlight: Erik Gulbranson

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    Erik Gulbranson (Environment, Geography, and Earth Sciences) will publish “A global perspective of soil-forming conditions during the late-Pennsylvanian: potential stochastic forcing by geosphere–biosphere carbon pools,” in the Journal of the Geological Society of London. While specific in scope, this paper introduces two new concepts related to paleoclimate research that will interface with paleoclimate simulations to…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Jeff Jeremiason

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    Jeff Jeremiason (Chemistry) is coauthor of a recently published paper in the journal Environmental Science and Technology titled, “Long-term experimental manipulation of atmospheric sulfate deposition to a peatland: Response of methylmercury and related solute export in streamwater.”

  • Faculty Spotlight: Kathleen Keller

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    Kathleen Keller (History) attended the Western Society for French History annual meeting in Victoria, British Columbia from November 4-6, 2022, where she participated in a roundtable discussion about researching and writing biographies about the French Empire and provided a comment on a panel about networks and decolonization in the French Empire.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Larissa McConnell

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    Larissa McConnell (Theatre and Dance) was honored with the University Resident Theatre Association (URTA) Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Training in Costume Design. URTA is a national organization that hosts auditions for MFA programs in all fields of theatre and is the largest recruitment event for graduate schools in theatre. Larissa will be recognized during…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Lisa Heldke

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    Lisa Heldke (Philosophy) published an essay entitled “Parasitic Personhood” in the anthology “Co-Operative Aesthetics: A Quasi-Manifesto for the 21st Century,” edited by Gioia Laura Iannilli.