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Derek Larson, professor of history and environmental studies, featured in Wednesday, March 4 St. Cloud Times Writers Group column "US needs to raise its minimum wage"

CSB/SJU Chemistry Department featured in Monday, March 2 Chemical & Engineering News article "Revising The Chemistry Curriculum"

Robert Bell, assistant professor of accounting and finance, featured on "The Catholic Guy" podcast with Lino Rulli '93 "Lino at St John's University with Bob Bell!"

Phil Kronebusch, professor of political science and competitive fellowships coordinator, quoted in Sunday, March 1 St. Cloud Times article "In Fulbright and other programs, global studies strong"

Deborah Pembleton, assistant professor of global business leadership, quoted in Saturday, Feb. 28 La Crosse Tribune article "FSPAs to memorialize their 'shooting star,' Sister Thea Bowman"

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Mark Conway, executive director of CSB Literary Arts Institute, has poems in the fall/winter 2014 issues of the Virginia Quarterly Review, Fifth Wednesday Journal, Field and Water~Stone Review as well as other work forthcoming in the spring 2015 editions of the Southwest Review, Poetry Northwest and Provincetown Arts.

Yvette Piggush, assistant professor of English at CSB/SJU, is one of 27 collegiate faculty members around the country who have been selected to participate in an interdisciplinary seminar on Slave Narratives.  This seminar will be led by David Blight, professor of American history at Yale University, and will be held this June on the Yale campus in New Haven, Connecticut.  The competition for participation was rigorous, with three times as many applicants as there were available spaces.

Kaarin S. Johnston, CSB/SJU professor of theater, presented “Becoming Human: An Exegetical Space for the Development of Liminal Humans"; a paper for the Working Group titled Childhood, Performance, and the Post-Human: Youth as a Human Conduit, at The American Society for Theatre Research Conference held Nov. 20, in Baltimore, Maryland.

Michael Hemmesch, SJU executive director of communications and marketing, was elected to a two-year term on the executive committee of Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) Counselors to Higher Education section. The executive committee is the governing leadership group of the 465-member professional interest section providing programming, professional development and networking support among PR practitioners serving the higher education sector in the U.S. and abroad.

Troy Fritz, executive director of major giving at SJU, and Raj Chaphalkar, director of annual giving at SJU, co-presented “Using Your Technology,” with Andrew Reeher, president and CEO, Reeher LLC at the 40th annual CASE District V Conference Dec. 15 in Chicago.

The CSB/SJU Department of Chemistry congratulates Emma Bonglack, FoCuS Scholar, CSB '17. She won a presentation award at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students. She is one of 20 award winners (out of about 3,000 people) for cancer research work she did last summer at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Nathaniel Dubin, CSB/SJU professor emeritus of modern and classical languages, is the recipient to the Modern Language Association’s 10th Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for an Outstanding Translation of a Literary Work for his translation of The Fabliaux, published by Liveright.

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