Inside Hamline News

Hamline's 2024-25 Winter/Spring Academic All-Conference Student-Athletes for the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) and Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) were recently announced. Congratulations to the hardworking Hamline students who gained this recognition!

Hamline's Natural Sciences and Environmental Education (MAEd:NSEE) program, housed in the School of Education and Leadership, has received a $712,000 grant from the Legislative Citizens' Commission on Minnesota Resources (LCCMR). This grant will enable the NSEE program, along with partners from the University of Minnesota and Freshwater, to expand and grow the highly successful Teacher Field School, designed to help teachers develop the skills necessary to support pre-K through 6th-grade students in achieving both social-emotional and academic growth through nature-based learning.

Kris Norman, professor and director of public administration programs at Hamline, published an article in MinnPost on grief. The article, entitled "Bearing Witness to our Collective Grief," was written in the wake of the June 14 shootings.

Psychology professor Dr. Serena King was the primary author of a letter published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Pediatrics publication entitled " Frequent and Problem Gambling in Public School Students." King's co-author...

Dr. Valerie Mulvenna '24, a graduate of Hamline's Doctorate in Education program, presented at the 2025 Children & Nature Network’s Nature Everywhere national conference held May 13-16 at St. Paul’s RiverCentre.

Hamline's Natural Sciences and Environmental Education (NSEE) has received re-accreditation by the North American Association for Environmental Education. This distinction is granted to programs that meet exceptionally high levels of rigor, professional relevance, academic integrity and set the standard for the field of environmental education.

Michelle Benegas, associate professor in the School of Education and Leadership, launched the second edition of her 2020 book, Teacher Leadership for School-Wide English Learning, coauthored with Amy Stolpestad. Their book is a best-seller with TESOL...

Alexandra Kretsch '25 was recently honored by the ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge for her work with Hamline University students during the fall 2024 campaign season.

Study abroad opportunity (January 2026): BIOL 3980: Tropical Ecology & Conservation Biology (Belize) Taught by Hamline Biology Professor Leif Hembre Two-credit course study abroad class in January 2026 (tentatively Mon 1/5 - Sat 1/17), paired with 2...