Linda Lein, an online English instructor at MSUM, will be presenting at the Minnesota Council Teachers of English Conference in Duluth in April. Her workshop topic is “Teaching Writing and Literature Online: When, How, and Why.”
Carol Hanson Sibley, Library, recently served as one of the jurors appointed to select the 2010 winner of the Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award. The award honors the “best” poetry book for children published in 2009. The committee selected “Button Up” by Alice Schertle as the winner. Three honor books were also named: “A Curious Collection of Cats” by Betsy Franco, “Crossing Stones” by Helen Frost, and “The Tree that Time Built” by Mary Ann Hoberman. The award is sponsored by the Pennsylvania Center for the Book.
Join us as we celebrate the grand opening of the American Indian Research and Resource Center located in Holmquist Hall 144 & 145 on Wednesday, February 24 from 2-4 p.m. There will be a brief program at 2:30. Refreshments will be served.
The Helen Roberti Charitable Trust has granted MSUM scholarship funds for American Indian students acquiring graduate and undergraduate degrees in such fields as law, medicine, education and other advanced degree vocations (All majors will be considered). Application Deadline: Monday, Feb. 22, 2010. Click headline for more information and for the application.
V-Day Minnesota State University Moorhead 2010 will present a benefit production of Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues Sunday, Feb. 14 at 9 p.m. in the Center for the Arts Hansen Theatre. For tickets, $3 single or $5 couple, contact the MSUM Box Office, 477-2271. More than 40 women from MSUM will participate in the production. Sponsored by MSUM Theatre Arts Department/Blackfriars, the benefit hopes to raise awareness to stop violence against women and girls and raise funds for our beneficiary—the Rape and Abuse Crisis Center of Fargo/Moorhead. Click headline to learn more.