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During an all staff meeting, May 16, the MSUM Community Outreach Center (within the Counseling & Student Affairs Graduate Program) was recognized by the Fargo Housing and Development Authority as a “Partner We Can’t Live Without.”

The clinic coordinator, Ben Erie was presented with a plaque stating the MSUM Community Outreach Center is “Making a Difference.” The Assistant Director of FHA also identified future collaborations with the MSUM Community Outreach Center including joint grant writing and sharing other resources.  Read the rest of this entry →

The MSUM College of Arts and Humanities newsletter received a silver Addy Award in the category of advertising for the arts and sciences at the 2012 AAF-ND Addy Awards held Friday, Feb. 22 at the Holiday Inn.

Congratulations to:
Derek Lien, contributing graphic designer
Rebecca Sundet-Schoenwald, contributing writer/editor
Darel Paulson, contributing photographer

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By Mary Ann Grossmann
mgrossmann@pioneerpress.com

New Rivers Press will be 45 years old in 2013, and the literary press founded by the late C.W. (Bill) Truesdale is starting the celebration this week with an evening of readings by Nick Healy, Sharon Suzuki-Martinez, Nick Knittel and Tim Nolan.

There will be music by Minnesota singer, songwriter andguitarist Diane Jarvi, who writes poetry as Diane Jarvenpa. Her third collection, “The Tender, Wild Things,” was published by New Rivers in 2007.

When Truesdale died in 2001, New Rivers was the oldest continuously publishing press in the country. After some tense months when it looked as though it would fold, New Rivers found a home at Minnesota State University-Moorhead. Since the first New Rivers books published in Moorhead came out in 2003, next year will also be the press’s 10th anniversary at MSU. Read the rest of this entry →

A two-year $262,000 grant was recently awarded from the National Science Foundation’s Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program to co-PIs Tim Harms (Mathematics) and Alison Wallace (Biosciences). Senior personnel include: Linda Houts-Smith (Languages and Cultures), Richard Lahti (Chemistry; Physics and Astronomy), Steve Lindaas (Physics and Astronomy), and Teresa Shume (School of Teaching and Learning). Read the rest of this entry →

Andrea Noonan, an English language/art teacher at Cheney Middle School in West Fargo, left, was presented with the North Dakota's Teacher of the year award by Superintendent of Public Instruction Wayne Sanstead, right, and Gov. Jack Dalrymple, middle, at Cheney Middle School on Wednesday in West Fargo. Carrie Snyder / The Forum

Andrea Noonan, English Teacher Education, 2004, was named the 2013 North Dakota Teacher of the Year.

By: Helmut Schmidt, INFORUM

WEST FARGO – Andrea Noonan, an eighth-grade language arts teacher from Cheney Middle School, is North Dakota’s 2013 Teacher of the Year.

Noonan was honored Wednesday at the middle school in a ceremony presided over by Gov. Jack Dalrymple.

“This is just a huge honor. … It’s very overwhelming. It’s a humbling experience,” Noonan said.

Noonan’s voice cracked with emotion as she addressed the dignitaries, state education leaders, fellow teachers and Cheney eighth-graders, and she battled to hold back tears.

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Anna Arnar, a professor in the Art & Design Department, recently received the Robert Motherwell Book Award for the best publication in the history and criticism of modernism in the arts, including the visual arts, literature, music and the performing arts.

Nominations are made by publishers and the winner is chosen by a panel of distinguished scholars and writers. The award includes a $20,000 prize from the Dedalus Foundation in New York. The prize was given for her 2011 publication The Book as Instrument: Stéphane Mallarmé, the Artist’s Book, and the Transformation of Print Culture published by the University of Chicago Press.

The Beta Gamma Sigma chapter at MSUM was recently honored by Beta Gamma Sigma as one of their Premier Chapters for the 2011-12 year. Beta Gamma Sigma is the honor society for universities that have achieved accreditation of their business programs by AACSB International – The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. This is the most prestigious level of accreditation available to business schools internationally. To qualify as a premier chapter, Beta Gamma Sigma requires a 75% acceptance rate following the invitation to join the honor society. The local chapter at MSUM achieved an acceptance rate of over 90% for the 2011-12 academic year. Read the rest of this entry →

Tri-College Army ROTC Cadet Jonathan Kvernen was named the honor graduate, the third Cadet of 435, in the 8th Regiment at the Leadership Assessment Development Course (LDAC) in Fort Lewis, Washington. Kvernen is a construction management major at Minnesota State University Moorhead. Read the rest of this entry →

Physics and Astronomy student, Shouvik Bhattacharya, has been awarded the SPS 2012 Leadership Scholarship. The award recognizes outstanding academic performance and high level of commitment to activities of the Society of Physics Students (SPS).

Bhattacharya is majoring in mathematics and physics and astronomy. He has served as historian of the MSUM SPS club, and continues to connect students with national SPS events and opportunities through a variety of social networking tools. His research interests include stellar spectroscopy, photometry of RR Lyrae variable stars, and mathematical modeling of stellar evolution.

Bhattacharya was appointed as a National SPS Intern for summer 2012. He is spending the summer in Washington, D.C., working specifically in the American Institute of Physics (AIP) Career Pathways Project. Read the rest of this entry →

Though his Dragon track and field career may be over, senior Aaron Lund was one of 87 student-athlete men to receive the prestigious 2011-12 NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship. The scholarship will help Lund in his pursuit of a postgraduate education.

“Receiving a NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship is not only a tremendous honor for myself and my family, but more importantly, this scholarship is a great honor for the Athletic Department and MSUM as a whole,” said Lund. “I have put a lot of effort, time and passion into academics, athletics, and community and campus service at MSUM and this scholarship award is a huge blessing in my life.” Read the rest of this entry →

The MSUM Operations Management program was a featured story in the June 2012 Enterprise Minnesota Magazine. Enterprise Minnesota is an organization dedicated to helping small and mid sized manufacturers develop and implement strategies to grow business. Whether walking through the lean manufacturing process or advising on the latest management strategies, we help your business compete and grow profitably.

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A team consisting of MSUM students Shouvik Bhattacharya, double major in mathematics and physics; Murshid Saqlain, physics major and mathematics minor; and Pragalv Karki, physics major and mathematics minor received Honorable Mention in the 2012 Mathematical Contest in Modeling organized by COMAP.

The contest engaged 3,697 teams from 16 countries: Canada, China, Finland, Germany, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Mexico, Malaysia, Palestine, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom, and US.

Our students worked out the solution for sending an optimal number of trips for river rafting, that ensures no contact with other groups of boats and team members will have the best opportunity to enjoy the wilderness. Their solution made use of graph theory and combinatorics. Dr. Damiano Fulghesu supervised the team’s registration and the submission of their solutions.

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 →