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Enjoy History? Discover Careers: 2017 Career Expo
No full textOur history panel is from 1 - 2 pm in Gorecki 120, facilitated by Dr. Jonathan Nash.
Panelists will talk about skills they developed as a history major and how important they are to a successful career. Discussions will focus on campus opportunities, the highlights and challenges of work, and advice on how to stand out in your application process.
Panelists this year are: Tyler Kinsella ’11, Collections Assistant, Scott County Historical Society Ann Koller ’10, Program & Staffing Manager, Wilderness Inquiry Andrew Kleinendorst ’10, Prevention & Non-Discrimination Program Manager, MN Dept. of Commerce Brandon Overman ’04, Financial Representative, Northwestern Mutual
For more information about the careeer fair: 2017 CAREER EXP
Grief: Finding Hope in Sorrow
No full textLoss comes to each of us, without fail. Scripture can serve as a companion to us in the grief we bear and ultimately in our surrender to our compassionate God. Through this set of insightful reflections on the stories of Ruth and Naomi, the death and raising of Jesus\u27 friend Lazarus, and the promise of a new heaven and earth, Laura Kelly Fanucci invites us to a deepening experience of God\u27s healing presence in our lives.
Laura Kelly Fanucci is the research associate for the Collegeville Institute Seminars. She is the author of Mercy: God\u27s Nature, Our Challenge and Dashed Hopes: When Our Best-Laid Plans Fall Apart in the Alive in the Word series; Everyday Sacrament: The Messy Grace of Parenting (Liturgical Press, 2014); and the coauthor of Living Your Discipleship: 7 Ways to Express Your Deepest Calling (23rd Publications, 2015). She blogs about spirituality and parenting at www.motheringspirit.comhttps://digitalcommons.csbsju.edu/collegevilleinstitute_books/1002/thumbnail.jp
The Stories We Live: Finding God\u27s Calling All Around Us
No full textChristian vocation, says Kathleen Cahalan, is about connecting our stories with God\u27s story. In The Stories We Live Cahalan rejuvenates and transforms vocation from a static concept to a living, dynamic reality.
Incorporating biblical texts, her own experience, and the personal stories of others, Cahalan discusses how each of us is called by God, to follow, as we are, from grief, for service, in suffering, through others, within God. Readers of this book will discover an exciting new vocabulary of vocation and find a fresh vision for God\u27s calling in their lives.https://digitalcommons.csbsju.edu/sot_books/1106/thumbnail.jp
Soil Trace Gas Emissions Across Landscape Transition from Agricultural Field to Riparian Buffer
Get PDFIn 2015, a new riparian buffer initiative aimed at enhancing protection of Minnesota’s water quality was signed into law. The new regulations clarified that all bodies of water listed on a buffer protection map were to have an average 15 m of perennial vegetation buffer, impacting nearly 45,000 ha of land throughout the state. (2016 103F.48) While improving water quality via mitigation of runoff and erosion is a likely outcome of the legislation, the impact of transitioning from agricultural fields to riparian buffer on Minnesota’s soil trace gas emissions is not fully understood. This study aimed to examine the fluxes of carbon dioxide (CO2), nitrous oxide (N2O), methane (CH4), and ammonia (NH3) from soils along a landscape transition from agricultural field to a small, currently existing riparian buffer zone near Collegeville, MN. A microcosm study was designed to quantify fluxes of trace gas emissions from soils collected along a transect gradient from an actively cropped field into a riparian buffer. Emissions of CO2, N2O, CH4, and NH3 were measured for 17 d with a mobile-FTIR gas analyzer integrated with a modified microcosm gas-sampling lid. Preliminary results from the microcosm study suggest that CO2 fluxes from the riparian soils were significantly higher than the field soils, correlating with higher TOC concentrations in the riparian soil. Emissions of N2O were highest in the transitional zones between field and riparian buffer, and no significant difference between overall field and riparian fluxes was recorded. Fluxes of N2O were measured shortly after initial wet-up of soils to 50% water-holding capacity and again on day 6 when soils were re-wetted to the initial moisture content, but seldom during relatively dry conditions. Results from this study may offer additional information to understand soil biogeochemical processes, as well as provide greater understanding of potential impacts that new Minnesota legislation may have on soil/landscape greenhouse gas budgets
Apocalyptic Ecology: The Book of Revelation, the Earth, and the Future
No full textThe author of the book of Revelation struggled, as we do today, to live out a Christian faith in the context of an empire that trampled and destroyed the earth and its creatures. In this book, Micah D. Kiel will look at how and why Revelation was written, along with how it has been interpreted across the centuries, to come to an understanding of its potential contribution to a modern environmental ethic. While the book of Revelation is replete with images of destruction of the earth, Kiel shows readers, through Revelation\u27s ancient context, a message of hope that calls for the care of and respect for the environment.https://digitalcommons.csbsju.edu/sot_books/1115/thumbnail.jp
Bilingualism and the brain: The benefits of learning another language
No full textThis presentation explores the benefits of bilingualism. Knowing multiple languages enriches our lives in so many different ways. This presentation includes interactive activities and data on how bilingualism can confer a beneficial form of cognitive training, improve the brain\u27s executive function, and even delay the onset of dementia or Alzheimer\u27s disease. We also share information about the Seal of Biliteracy, a program recognizing bilingualism in high school students in the state of Minnesota. Additionally, we look at current demographics of CSB/SJU students, and the different languages spoken on campus. Learn why, in a globalized world, U.S. companies are hiring more individuals who can communicate in foreign languages