Category: Faculty Activities

  • Kathy Lund Dean (Economics and Management)

    Kathy Lund Dean and co-author Sarah Wright (University of Canterbury) have published “Embedding engaged learning in high enrollment lecture-based classes” in Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research. The article came out of Kathy’s 2015 Erskine Fellowship to the University of Canterbury and is part of her larger research stream that explores experiential…

  • Joyce Sutphen (English)

    Joyce Sutphen was interviewed on WCCO Radio after Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

  • Ursula Lindqvist, Kjerstin Moody, and David Jessup (Scandinavian Studies)

    Ursula Lindqvist, Kjerstin Moody, and David Jessup participated in the annual Sweden Symposium of the Association of Swedish Teachers and Researchers in America (ASTRA) held in Boulder, Colorado, October 20-22. This year’s theme was “Sweden in the World, the World in Sweden.” This was Professor Lindqvist’s final year presiding over the organization as president, so…

  • Joaquín Villanueva (Geography)

    Joaquín published a chapter “Rights” in Mark Jayne and Kevin Ward’s (2016) Urban Theory: New Critical Perspectives, Routledge. The book introduces urban theoretical debates to undergraduate and early graduate students.

  • Yumiko Oshima-Ryan and Barb Leibundgth (Music)

    Yumiko Oshima-Ryan and Barb Leibundgth are invited to perform for the College Music Society’s Showcase concert during the Fifty-Ninth National Conference in Santa Fe in October. Oshima-Ryan (piano) and Leibundgth (flute) will perform “Digital Bird Suite” by Japanese composer Takashi Yoshimatsu (b. 1953). The CMS Program Committee has selected the work for presentation during one…

  • Ana Adams (Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures)

    Ana Adams published an article titled “Humor étnico en El Conde Lucanor” in Ehumanista, Journal of Iberian Studies 34, 407-423.

  • Jill Locke (Political Science)

    The Institute for Advanced Study featured an excerpt from Jill Locke’s book, Democracy and the Death of Shame, on the front page of its website. Locke was a member at the Institute during her 2014-15 sabbatical.

  • Dwight Stoll (Chemistry)

    Dwight Stoll received funding from the Agilent Technologies Foundation for the one-year project “Development of 2D-LC-MS/MS Methods for the Analysis of Host Cell Proteins (HCPs) in Monoclonal Antibody Materials.” Dwight also received funding through a University of St. Thomas grant from the State of Minnesota Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund for the three-year project…

  • Don Myers (Hillstrom Museum of Art/Art and Art History)

    Don Myers served as one of the three judges for the annual Mankato CityArt Walking Sculpture Tour for the fourth time, the results of which will be made public later this month. The panel of judges was responsible for choosing first, second, and third prizes in two categories of sculpture, bronze and other materials, out…

  • Kyle Chambers (Psychological Science)

    Kyle Chambers co-authored an empirical article, “Listeners learn phonotactic patterns conditioned on suprasegmental cues,” with Katherine White, Zachary Miller, and Vibhuti Jethava (University of Waterloo) that will be published in the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. This work includes contributions from student research assistants Gustavus’s Center for Developmental Science in particular, Elle Vetter ’17.