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  • Faculty Spotlight: Larissa McConnell

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    Larissa McConnell (Theatre and Dance) was honored with the University Resident Theatre Association (URTA) Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Training in Costume Design. URTA is a national organization that hosts auditions for MFA programs in all fields of theatre and is the largest recruitment event for graduate schools in theatre. Larissa will be recognized during…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Lisa Heldke

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    Lisa Heldke (Philosophy) published an essay entitled “Parasitic Personhood” in the anthology “Co-Operative Aesthetics: A Quasi-Manifesto for the 21st Century,” edited by Gioia Laura Iannilli.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Tiffany Grobelski and Anna Hulseberg

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    Tiffany Grobelski (Environment, Geography, and Earth Sciences) and Anna Hulseberg (Library) published an article, “Collaborative Synergy: Building an Energy Geography Resource Hub,” in the Nov. 2022 issue of College & Research Library News, the official news magazine and publication of record of the Association of College and Research Libraries.

  • Brandon Dean, 2022 Faculty Service Award Winner

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    Brandon Dean (Music) was selected as the 2022 recipient of the Gustavus Faculty Service Award. Presented each year at Founder’s Day, this award is the highest accolade a Gustavus faculty member can receive for distinguished service activities.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Julie Bartley

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    Julie Bartley (Environment, Geography, and Earth Sciences) published a paper with several colleagues in The Planetary Science Journal. The article, titled “Using rover-analogous methodology to discriminate between volcanic and sedimentary origins in successions dominated by igneous composition,” reports the results of a study that develops criteria for determining whether a rock observed by a planetary…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Lisa Heldke

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    Lisa Heldke (Philosophy) gave a lecture at Colby College — “The Aesthetic Value of Disgusting Experiences: Ruminations on my Compost Bucket” — as part of the Colby Center for the Arts and Humanities yearlong lecture series, “Food for Thought.”

  • Faculty Spotlight: Melissa Rolnick

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    Melissa Rolnick (Theatre and Dance) performed “Archive,” choreographed by her colleague Jill Patterson, at the 2022 Women in Dance Leadership Conference. The solo was performed at the Logan Center for the Arts at the University of Chicago on October 15.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Kjerstin Moody

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    Kjerstin Moody (Scandinavian Studies) was invited to serve a three-year term on the National Screening Committee for the Fulbright IIE program for Sweden, beginning this academic year. This past June she attended the Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference at Middlebury College’s Bread Loaf campus in Ripton, Vermont. She was one of eight selected participants for the…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Bonnie Reimann

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    Bonnie Reimann (Health and Exercise Science) has been chosen to receive the Minnesota Society of Health and Physical Educators’ (MNSHAPE) Lou Keller Award. This award honors and recognizes outstanding services and contributions given by a college or university professor or other professional worker (public school teachers exempted) in the fields of health, physical education, recreation…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Lisa Heldke

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    Lisa Heldke (Philosophy), along with her co-creator Cynthia Belliveau from the University of Vermont, is the recipient of the 2022 John Dewey Society Award for Outstanding Achievement, for their creation of the John Dewey Kitchen Institute. The award is given to “that individual or those individuals who, in the judgment of the committee, has or…