Be Green! Walk to Work.

This fully renovated 1,925 square foot, 3 bedroom home is only 1/2 block from MSUM. Stripped to the studs in 2008 and rebuilt in 2009, this is a brand-new home in a beautiful established neighborhood. Everything is new, from the 200 amp electrical system to the lifetime steel siding. Click headline for more information and pictures.

MSUM math speaker talks about symmetry patterns

MSUM Mathematics Colloquium features Professor Joseph Gallian, University of Minnesota Duluth, in a talk titled “Using Mathematics to Create Symmetry Patterns” at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday Nov. 17 in MacLean Hall 167. A reception will be held at 4 p.m. Gallian is a distinguish professor of mathematics, active researcher and award-winning teacher. Click headline to read more.

It’s not too late to donate

To date, MSUM employees have donated $50,755.64 – 80.6% of this year’s $63,000 goal – to the 2009-2010 State Employee’s Combined Charities Campaign. (Last year, $61,319.96 was donated by MSUM employees.) This illustrates the generosity of faculty and staff who are able to look beyond their own needs and comforts to ensure that the needs of others can be met. Because of your generosity, people in our communities who find themselves in need will be helped. Victims of violence will be protected, homeless families will be fed and sheltered, children will be nurtured. Click headline to read more.

Dragons Salute Veterans

November 11 is Veterans Day—a day to remember the sacrifice of Americans who served in the armed forces. Dragon veterans can pick up a “Dragon Veteran” pin at the physical plant, the president’s office or the human resources office. Thank you, veterans!

“Pinocchio” showing at MSUM Nov. 21

“I want to be a real boy.” Carved from a piece of pine by a woodcarver named Geppetto in a small Italian village, the puppet Pinocchio dreams of becoming a real boy. Join us for this adventurous piece of physical theatre, complete with masks, clowning and child-like imagination, Saturday, Nov. 21 at 1 p.m. and again at 4 p.m. in the Roland Dille Center for the Arts Hansen Theatre. It’s fun for the whole family! For ticket information, please contact the MSUM Box Office at 218.477.2271.