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Category: Faculty Activities

  • Faculty Spotlight: Erik Gulbranson

    Faculty Spotlight: Erik Gulbranson

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    Erik Gulbranson (EGE) has been invited to present his recent research on the impact of war on soil erosion at the International Sedimentological Congress in Wellington, New Zealand.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Kathleen Keller

    Faculty Spotlight: Kathleen Keller

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    Kathleen Keller (History) published a book review in Nineteenth Century French Studies. The book, Law, Order, and Empire: Policing and Crime in Colonial Algeria is by Samuel Kalman of Saint Francis Xavier University.

  • 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.