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Category: Faculty Activities

  • Tom Huber (Physics)

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    Tom Huber, Nathan Huber ’17, and Matthew Huber (Rhodes College) are co-authors on the paper “Optical imaging of propagating Mach cones in water using refracto-vibrometry” in the March 2017 issue of the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. They developed a method for obtaining videos showing the formation and propagation of Mach cones in…

  • Mary Joos (Health and Exercise Science)

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    Mary Joos has been awarded two scholarships for her doctoral work: The GLATA Living Pinky Newell Graduate Scholarship from the National Athletic Trainers’ Association and the Great Lakes Athletic Trainers’ Association as well as the MATA Post Professional Level Scholarship from the Minnesota Athletic Trainers’ Association. Joos is currently in her second year of doctoral…

  • Lisa Heldke (Philosophy)

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    Lisa Heldke has been chosen to receive the 2017 Excellence in Scholarship award, given by the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society.

  • Blake Couey (Religion)

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    Blake Couey presented a paper titled “Poetry, Language, and Statecraft in Isaiah 18” at the Upper Midwest Society of Biblical Literature meeting in Saint Paul on April 1, 2017. The paper is a shortened version of a book chapter that will appear in a forthcoming volume of close readings of biblical poems published by Cambridge…

  • Liz Drake and Mary Joos (Health and Exercise Science)

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    Liz Drake and Mary Joos will speak to the April 2017 annual meeting of the Minnesota Athletic Trainers’ Association on completing literature reviews for clinicians. They will present on “Answering Clinical Questions: Literature Searches in the Field.”

  • Barbara Fister (Library)

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    Barbara Fister was invited to give the annual Marjorie Whetstone Ashton lecture at the University of New Mexico, where she also conducted a workshop for faculty. The text of her talk, “Practicing Freedom for the Post-Truth Era” is available in GustieScholar.

  • Julie Gilbert (Library)

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    Julie Gilbert wrote a series of four children’s books, which were released this spring. The Dark Waters series, published by Stone Arch Books, tells the story of India Finch and her mermaid friends. Known as hi-lo books (high interest for low level readers), the series is written for teens who read at a second grade…

  • Betsy Byers (Art and Art History)

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    Betsy Byers exhibited her paintings at SCOPE International art fair in New York City this March. Her solo exhibition, “Sensitive Indicators,” is currently on view at Kolman & Pryor Gallery with an opening reception this Saturday, March 25, 2017, from 7-9 p.m. The show is on view through April 15, 2017.

  • Anna Hulseberg (Library) and Anna Versluis (Geography)

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    Anna Hulseberg and Anna Versluis published an article titled “Integrating Information Literacy into an Undergraduate Geography Research Methods Course” in College & Undergraduate Libraries (vol. 24 2017, issue 1).

  • Kate Knutson (Political Science) and Sarah Ruble (Religion)

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    Kate Knutson and Sarah Ruble led a session at the 36th Annual Conference of the First Year Experience. The session was entitled “Using Peer Mentors for Advising in the First-Term Seminar” and focused on recent efforts at Gustavus to improve advising outcomes by incorporating peer mentors into FTS classes and developing an advising curriculum.