Gustavus Blogs

Month: April 2023

  • Benton Frayne Named Women’s Soccer Associate Head Coach

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    siewert

    Benton Frayne, the Gustavus women’s soccer assistant coach from 2015-18, is returning to the program as the associate head coach for the 2023 season. Frayne spent the last four years as the head women’s soccer coach at Buena Vista University. 

  • Announcing the Economic Research and Communication Contest: A Chance to Showcase Your Scholarship

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    mpodemsk

    The Economics and Management Department is thrilled to announce the launch of the Economic Research and Communication Contest. This pilot program aims to encourage and recognize undergraduate scholarship in economics, and we invite all econ majors to participate. The contest comprises two categories: Economic Research – an original research paper written as part of a…

  • Artist Jeannette Ehlers To Visit Gustavus

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    admin

    One might assume that Scandinavia has little to teach us about diversity. The Gustavus 2023 Out of Scandinavia (OOS) Artist-in-Residence, Jeanette Ehlers, has spent her career dispelling that assumption. Beginning April 24, the College will host the Copenhagen-based, Danish-Trinidadian performance artist for a week of classroom discussions, visits with students and faculty, a public lecture—…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Lydia Francis

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    snowell

    Lydia Francis ’11 (Theatre and Dance) has illustrated Spider, Spider On the Wall, a children’s book written by her aunt, Mary Schlichting. “It was a lifelong dream to bring her beautiful story to life. We had no deadline and no publisher, but I fell in love with the idea we soon hit the ground running…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Kathleen Keller

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    snowell

    Kathleen Keller (History) was elected to the editorial board of the journal French Historical Studies.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Yurie Hong

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    snowell

    Yurie Hong (Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies) delivered a keynote, “Pedagogies of Care and Connection in a Time of Perma-crisis,” at Northwestern University’s Teaching Antiquity Now conference. This talk provided framing and tools to make learning about antiquity meaningful for students today and emphasized the ways in which course goals and assessment methods can enhance…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Erik Gulbranson

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    snowell

    Erik Gulbranson (Environment, Geography, and Earth Sciences) was invited to present at the Goldschmidt 2023 Conference in Lyon, France. This talk, “A global perspective of soil-forming conditions during the late Pennsylvanian: potential stochastic forcing by geosphere–biosphere carbon pools,” will be presented in early July 2023.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Kathy Lund Dean

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    snowell

    Kathy Lund Dean (Economics and Management)was part of a team of authors that published, “Key Authors in Business and Management Education (BME) with a Bibliometric Analysis of Economic Education Scholarship by Gender” in Advances in Economic Education. While the analysis found that women have made substantial inroads into top rankings of BME scholars across disciplines,…

  • Earth Day! Exhibit & Resources

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    ahulsebe

    April 21st is Earth Day at Gustavus! In addition to participating in the campus-wide celebration, you can visit the library’s climate change exhibit and find resources about Earth Day and environmental issues. Climate change exhibit: Stop by the Library’s GLA Reading Room to see Taking Action on Climate Change, a traveling exhibit from the Minnesota…

  • Softball Posts Second Straight MIAC Sweep

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    Jordan Modjeski

    The Gustavus softball team won its third- and fourth-straight games, sweeping Concordia by scores of 6-0 and 7-2 on a rainy day in the MSU-Mankato dome. Gustie pitchers Marah Hulke (Fy., Courtland) and Maizie Anderson (Fy., Rosemount) led the way, both pitching complete games and combining for only three hits against.