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.

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Category & MSUM Winners

Print Media Entries

News Reporting
2nd Place (tie) Bryce Haugen and Jared Winmill MSUM
3rd Place Charly Haley MSUM

Editorial
3rd Place Tyler Sorensen MSUM

Feature Story
1st Place Charly Haley MSUM
3rd Place Tyler Sorensen MSUM

Special Articles
1st Place Charly Haley and Jessica Fleming MSUM

Personality Profile
1st Place Danny Determan MSUM
2nd Place Andrew Jason MSUM
3rd Place Jasmine Maki MSUM

Personal Column
1st Place Tyler Sorensen MSUM
2nd Place Meghan Feir MSUM

Sports Writing
1st Place Danny Determan MSUM

Reviews
1st Place Meghan Feir MSUM
3rd Place Tyler Sorensen MSUM

Personal Essay
1st Place Tyler Sorensen MSUM

Section Regularly Edited By Entrant
Special Supplement
Publication Regularly Edited by Entrant
1st Place Charly Haley MSUM

Photography

Single News Photo
3rd Place Jessica Fleming MSUM

Single Feature Photo
2nd Place Jessica Fleming MSUM

Single Sports Photo
1st Place Jessica Fleming MSUM

Photo Essay
1st Place Chris Franz MSUM
2nd Place Dannelle Blotter MSUM
3rd Place (tie) Jesses Trelstad MSUM

Broadcast

General News Reporting
1st Place (tie) Kallyn Klein MSUM
2nd Place (tie) Zach Denzer MSUM
2nd Place (tie) Kelsey Roseth MSUM
3rd Place Alison Voorhees MSUM

On-the-Scene News Reporting
1st Place Kelsey Roseth MSUM
2nd Place Robert Swansen MSUM
3rd Place Alison Voorhees MSUM

Investigative /In-depth Report
1st Place Zach Denzer MSUM
2nd Place Carly Lehmkuhl MSUM
3rd Place Kristi Larson MSUM

Feature Reporting
2nd Place (tie) Rebecca Lebak MSUM
3rd Place Kim Kressin MSUM

Interview

General Sports Reporting
2nd Place Chase Miller MSUM
Hon. Mention Corey Pierre MSUM

Feature Sports Reporting
1st Place Robert Swansen MSUM

Regularly Scheduled News/Information Program
1st Place Campus News MSUM

TV Weather Broadcast
TV News Photography
2nd Place Kelsey Roseth MSUM

TV Feature Photography
3rd Place (tie) Kaitlyn Teske MSUM

TV Sports Photography
2nd Place Garrett Matteson/ Daniel Zeibol MSUM
3rd Place Chase Miller MSUM

Television Electronic Graphics
2nd Place Nick Hanson MSUM

Web Design

Web Page Design
Writing for the Web
1st Place Sadie Jones MSUM
2nd Place Matthew Beckman MSUM
3rd Place Matthew Holding Eagle MSUM

Website Edited by Entrant
1st Place Rachel Leingang MSUM

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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3:00 p.m. Thursday, May 10^th, CMU 227

As chief financial officer and chief marketing officer for Windows Microsoft, Reller is responsible for business performance, finance and marketing of the Windows and Windows Live Division, including the Windows operating system, Internet Explorer and Windows Live.

Reller has held a variety of leadership roles in marketing, finance and R&D. She previously led Microsoft Business Solutions (MBS), which develops and markets Microsoft Dynamics products, where she co-led efforts to integrate Great Plains Software and Navision a/s into Microsoft as a part of MBS. During that time she helped to firmly establish Microsoft in the business applications category, leading teams in Copenhagen, Denmark; Fargo, North Dakota; and Redmond, Washington.

A native of Grand Forks, N.D., Reller earned her bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Minnesota State University Moorhead and her Master of Business Administration from St. Mary’s College in Moraga, Calif. The Office of the President, Career Development Center and the Office of Student Activities sponsor this presentation.

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.

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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.

They were quizzed on everything from safety, surveying and scheduling, to estimating, contract documents and soils. Despite not prepping for the event, the team made an impressive showing.

Dell credits their performance to the construction management program’s thorough and broad education in the construction process and access to leading construction software that’s used in the industry.

“Our professors have worked in the field as project managers, bringing real life experience to the classroom, and they integrate that experience into every class,” Dell said.

“That’s why we have the best program in the area,” Anderson added.

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.

Panel participants included Daniel González, senior immigration reporter, Arizona Republic; John Hooper, Rome correspondent, The Guardian; Laure Mandeville, U.S. bureau chief, Le Figaro; Guido Olimpio, special correspondent, Corriere della Sera; Julia Preston, national immigration correspondent, The New York Times; Domenico
Stinellis, national photo editor for Italy and the Vatican, The Associated Press; and Elise Vincent, social affairs reporter, Le Monde.

Radniecki also attended the Minnesota Press Photographers annual conference and photo competition. Presenting recent photographic work was Pulitzer prize winner and New York Times photographer Todd Heisler; independent artist Wing Young Huie; and Jenn Ackerman and Tim Gruber, a husband and wife team whose recent documentary earned them an Emmy.

1^st Place: Minnesota State University Moorhead
2^nd Place: University of Minnesota Twin Cities
3^rd Place: St. Cloud State University
4^th Place: St. Cloud Technical College
5^th Place: University of Wisconsin Osh Gosh
6^th Place: South Dakota State University
7^th Place: University of Minnesota Duluth
8^th Place: University of St. Thomas
9^th Place: North Dakota State University

The MSUM team will now participate in the national competition against 14 other district winners. This competition will be held at the American Advertising Federation’s national convention held June 2-5 in Austin, Texas.

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.

Eight out of 10 students at the NHCC location passed the exam with three 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 218 compared to the national average at 210.

Congratulations to all 23 students in the construction management program!

The competition brought students from some of the top ten business schools from around the country. Along with our team from MSUM, there were teams from University of Minnesota, University of Utah, Indiana University, Texas A&M University at College Station and Dallas, University of Maryland, Arizona State University and University of Arizona.

The case problem analyzed by the teams involved social media marketing of the Minnesota Wild hockey team. Professors Ben Clapp and Vinod Lall coached the MSUM team.

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.

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.

The following is a list of the 2011-2012 class of new Beta Gamma Sigma members:

Sara Beattie; Joel Becvar; Alexander Hajicek; Hae Seok Lee; Heidi Lensing; Bradley Ostendorf; Ashley Rasmussen; Jill Steinwand; Sean Templeton; Lindsey Thymian; Andrew Alstadt;  Cory Black; Ryan Daly; Timothy Erickson; Christopher Karsky; Angela Kettering; Randy Larson; Allan Nunez; and Jenna Thompson

In addition, Tammy Miller, CEO of Border States Electric and MSUM alum, was inducted as the Chapter Honoree as a professional who has furthered the ideals of the Society through outstanding business and managerial leadership.  Timothy Erickson, a Business Administration major, was selected as the Beta Gamma Sigma scholarship recipient for 2012-2013.

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

The gifts were given as a way to inform MSUM construction management students of Kraus-Anderson and the opportunities they offer.

Kraus-Anderson has hired multiple MSUM construction management majors for internships and full-time positions. “The ones that were interns that we hired full-time, the reason we kept them on full-time was the quality of education they’ve had and the skills that they bring to our company,” Rettke said. “We feel we can help them along and further their education, but they’ve got such a good baseline to start from, and that is certainly a positive that we at Kraus-Anderson view.”

Andersen said the construction management program values the relationship created between students and businesses in the industry. “Without them we don’t know if we’re preparing the students for the right things. We interact with the industry, get their input, get our students out working with them, and get feedback on their strengths and weaknesses. It helps us build our program.”

Engineering News-Record consistently ranks Kraus-Anderson among the top 50 Construction Management-at-Risk Firms in the United States. Their Minnesota base of operations is supplemented with regional offices.

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