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Category: Faculty Activities

  • Faculty Spotlight: Lai Sze Tso

    Faculty Spotlight: Lai Sze Tso

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    Lai Sze Tso (Sociology and Anthropology) presented her paper “Sandwich Caregivers and the Eldercare Ecosystem in Minnesota” at the Applied Demography Conference –Population Association of America Annual Meeting in Tucson, AZ. She also served as a panel reviewer for the Cultural Expression Grant for the Minnesota State Arts Board in 2024-25.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Kate Knutson

    Faculty Spotlight: Kate Knutson

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    Kate Knutson (Political Science) presented a paper coauthored with Rachel Flynn (Library) titled, “What Am I Reading? How Teaching Genre Improves Civic Skills” at the American Political Science Association Teaching and Learning Conference in Alexandria, Virginia. Knutson also was selected to participate in the 2025 Minnesota Young American Leaders Program hosted by the University of…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Marcia Bunge

    Faculty Spotlight: Marcia Bunge

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    Marcia J. Bunge (Religion) was invited by the University of Erfurt in Germany to give virtual lecture on her child-related research for the university’s interdisciplinary course on “The Well-being of the Child: Promotion, Protection, Rights”.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Elizabeth Baer

    Faculty Spotlight: Elizabeth Baer

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    Elizabeth Baer (English, retired) presented a Zoom lecture “The Girl in the Green Sweater,” to an audience of 200 people around the world on February 1, 2025. The talk was sponsored by Knitting History Forum, a British organization, and told the story of a sweater worn by a young girl hiding from the Nazis in…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Ursula Lindqvist

    Faculty Spotlight: Ursula Lindqvist

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    Ursula Lindqvist (Scandinavian Studies) published a scholarly book review article… about Tami Navarro’s Virgin Capital: Race, Gender, and Financialization in the US Virgin Islands. Albany: SUNY Press, 2021. Pp. 242,” in Scandinavian Studies issue #97.1 (2025), p. 122–126.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Darsa Donelan

    Faculty Spotlight: Darsa Donelan

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    Rose Paddock ’23, former Student Observatory Manager at Gustavus, had her first first-author publication in the Journal of Double Star Observations. The paper, “Albireo Double Star Observations: A Comparative Study Using Unistellar EV, Meade LX600 (10”) and LX200 (16”) Telescopes,” explores the Albireo double star system and compares different telescope designs to assess their value to the astronomical community.…

  • Gustavus History Department Excels in Public History

    Gustavus History Department Excels in Public History

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    James Baldwin once wrote, “History is not the past. It is the present. We carry our history with us. We are our history.” One of the great challenges of the present is to make sense of how it illuminates the past. The work of public history, an ever-growing field, is for academics to present historical…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Dwight Stoll and Daniel Meston

    Faculty Spotlight: Dwight Stoll and Daniel Meston

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    Dwight Stoll and Daniel Meston (both Chemistry) published a paper in the Journal of Chromatography A, along with co-author Todd Maloney from Eli Lilly and Company. The paper, “Effect of Flow Rate on Plate Height and Resolution for Antisense Oligonucleotides Under Hydrophilic Interaction Liquid Chromatography Conditions”, describes the first measurements of plate height for oligonucleotides…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Kate Aguilar

    Faculty Spotlight: Kate Aguilar

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    Kate Aguilar (History) published an article in Time magazine’s Made By History series detailing how the January 9 NCAA Football National Championship semifinals matchup between Notre Dame and Penn State takes on added significance because the winning coach, Notre Dame’s Marcus Freeman or Penn State’s James Franklin, will then become the first Black head coach…

  • Faculty Spotlight: JC Sanford

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    JC Sanford (Music) received a 2025 Creative Individuals grant from the MN State Arts Board to record his jazz quartet, and his recent CD release, NEW PAST, was recognized as one of the Best Albums of 2024 by DownBeat Magazine.