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Winners of the 2012 North Dakota Professional Communicators (NDPC) College Communications Contest were recognized at the NDPC state conference held in April. More than 75 students and teams from seven North Dakota and western Minnesota schools participated in the annual competition. NDPC presented awards in 35 categories. MSUM students received 46 of the 91 awards (or nearly half!).

Participating institutions were: University of North Dakota, Grand Forks.; North Dakota State University, Fargo; Lake Region State College, Devils Lake.; Minot State University; Concordia College (Moorhead, Minn.); and Minnesota State University Moorhead. Read the rest of this entry →

Business administration student, Jacob Starkey, who graduated in spring 2012, was offered the marketing coordinator position at Discovery Benefits. He will start his new job on May 29.

FARGO – Well-known in the area as a photographer of the land and sky, Wayne Gudmundson trained his eye on an entirely different subject for his latest project: people.

By: John Lamb, INFORUM

FARGO – Well-known in the area as a photographer of the land and sky, Wayne Gudmundson trained his eye on an entirely different subject for his latest project: people.

The Moorhead artist teamed up with Prairie Public Television for “Faces of the Oil Patch.” Gudmundson’s still photos are featured throughout the documentary as a way of introducing subjects.

Some of the photos are displayed at North Dakota State University’s Memorial Union Gallery, with a reception at 5 tonight. The exhibit will eventually travel around the state.

Following the reception, the documentary will be screened. It premieres on PPTV, Channel 13, at 9 p.m. Wednesday.

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Juniors and seniors are invited to join Tami Reller, chief financial officer for Windows at Microsoft Corporation and the 2012 spring commencement speaker, as she discusses leadership in the workforce, navigating employment after graduation and her experiences working in finance, marketing, strategic planning and technology. Reller is eager to visit with MSUM students to share her experiences and answer questions about preparing for life after MSUM.

3:00 p.m. Thursday, May 10^th, CMU 227 Read the rest of this entry →

A celebration recognizing and honoring Dave Holsen’s life will be held at 3 p.m. Saturday, May 12 at the Moorhead Knights of Columbus, 915 ½ Main Ave., Moorhead. University friends and colleagues are invited to this service.

David ’72 (mass communications, elementary education) passed away in April at Wiltshire, England. He worked at MSUM for 31 years, retiring in December 2009 from the building services department as a management analyst supervisor. He is survived by his wife, Jill,’88 (English) and ’05 (master of liberal arts), who also retired in January 2010 after 31 years at the university, most recently as director of international programs. They have one son, Ben, and a daughter, Katie.

Congratulations to our graduating international students. The International Student Sash Ceremony is Thursday, May 10 from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. in the CMU ballroom. The Sash Ceremony is designed to recognize MSUM’s graduating international students. Each graduate is presented with a sash that represents the flag from their country of citizenship. The graduates will wear their sashes at commencement the following day. 53 international students will be graduating representing 18 countries.

Join us in the celebration!

MSUM construction management students placed second at the 2012 Construction Management Quiz Bowl held at the Dunwoody College of Technology in Minneapolis.

The team of Darren Dell, Danny Hawkins, Dan Watkins and Myles Anderson competed against seven other teams from the University of Minnesota, North Hennepin Community College, MSU Mankato and University of Wisconsin-Stout. It was a three round, Jeopardy-style quiz bowl challenge, and the MSUM team triumphed over MSU Mankato, North Hennepin Community College and University of Minnesota-Minneapolis, placing second to Stout. Read the rest of this entry →

Regene Radniecki, mass communications, attended two conferences at the University of Minnesota, April 27-28.

The first conference was “Covering the Southern Borders: European and U.S. Journalists compared reporting on Immigration and Immigrants in the Mediterranean and Southwestern U.S.” Senior reporters and editors from American, British, French, and Italian media came together to discuss their experiences covering immigration. Read the rest of this entry →

MSUM mass communications advertising students took first place last weekend in the District 8 American Advertising Federation’s National Student Advertising Competition held in Minneapolis. For this competition, the students presented an integrated marketing plan for Nissan targeted to multi-cultural millennials, specifically Chinese, Hispanic and African Americans. The final rankings were as follows:

1^st Place: Minnesota State University Moorhead
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The graduating seniors in construction management at both the MSUM and North Hennepin locations passed the Associate Constructor exam and exceed the national average. This is a national exam and compares them to students across the nation majoring in construction management. The results are the best the program has ever achieved.

15 out of 19 students at the MSUM location passed the exam with six scoring above the 70^th percentile. To pass the exam students must score 210/ 300 which on this exam session was at the 43^rd percentile. The school average was 221 compared to the national average at 210. The composite scores indicated that there were no weaknesses in the content area tested. Read the rest of this entry →

Yelena Mejova, a graduate of MSUM’s computer science department, will be doing a postdoc in Barcelona with the Yahoo! research lab in Barcelona as part of their web mining group. Mejova will graduate in May with a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Iowa. Her thesis was completed in the area of sentiment analysis, combining natural language processing, computational linguistics, and data mining.

From April 4-7, MSUM students Rachel Bosl, Bret Sheeley and Baron Hines representing the School of Business competed at the CoMIS Case Competition at the University of Minnesota, Carlson School of Management.

The competition brought students from some of the top ten business schools from around the country.  Read the rest of this entry →

The Business & Industry Curriculum Committee will meet April 30 from 8:00 to 9:30 a.m. in CB 101.

Dr. Mary Stone and Dr. Sheri Erickson, both from the school of business, and Dr. Marsha Weber, Dean of the College of Business and Industry, have a paper accepted for publication in the fall 2012 issue of the Journal of Business and Accounting.

The paper, “Corporate Crisis: An Examination of Merck’s Communication Strategies in the Vioxx Case,” examines Merck Pharmaceutical’s  communication strategies using Benoit (1995) and Marcus and Goodman (1991) typologies to determine whether Merck communicated in a way that enhanced shareholder value.

Thirty-nine MSUM students attended the first Minnesota Conference of Undergraduate Scholarly and Creative Activity in Mankato on Monday, April 23rd. These represented many of the top projects from MSUM’s Student Academic Conference, as well as top projects from the other Minnesota State Universities. Thank you to all who helped make this trip a success.

MSUM achieved accreditation of its business programs by AACSB International (The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business) in 2010. This is the most prestigious level of accreditation available to business schools internationally. As a result of this achievement, the school was able to establish a chapter of Beta Gamma Sigma in 2011.

On Friday, April 20 an induction ceremony was held for 19 students joining Beta Gamma Sigma during the 2011-2012 academic year. The School of Business congratulates these students who join an expanding worldwide network of more than 625,000 outstanding business professionals who have earned recognition through lifetime membership in Beta Gamma Sigma. This is a very selective honor as only students ranking in the top 10 percent of the baccalaureate and top 20 percent of graduate programs at schools accredited by AACSB International are eligible for this invitation. Read the rest of this entry →

Writer’s Daily Dare is a free daily course, created by former MSUM student Nicole Elmore, for individuals who aspire to become better writers, whether it is for college or career level.

Visit Nicole’s blog here. Read the rest of this entry →

Friday, April 13, Chad Rettke, senior project manager at Kraus-Anderson Construction Company, visited Minnesota State University Moorhead’s construction management offices to donate items to the department, such as hard hats, coffee cups, literature and information about their company.

Provost Anne Blackhurst accepted the gifts, along with College of Business & Industry Dean Marsha Weber, and construction management faculty member Norma Andersen. Read the rest of this entry →

Dr. Mary Stone, school of business, has recently passed the two-part exam requirement for the Certified Management Accountant (CMA) distinction. This designation, sponsored by the Institute of Management Accountants, is the Certification for Accountants and Financial Professionals in Business.

Kim Mollberg, school of business, was the guest CPA giving last-minute tax tips to viewers on KVLY (channel 11)/KXJB (channel 4) Valley News Today morning show on April 17, the due date for 2011 individual income tax returns.

If you want to see one of the segments, click here, then go to the April 17, 2012 item “Last Minute Tax Tips.”