Provost candidates on campus the week of Jan. 24

The search committee for the Provost and Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs position at MSUM has recommended four candidates to interview the week of January  24. Campus/media open forums are scheduled for Monday-Thursday (January 24, 25, 26, 27) from 3-4 p.m. each of those days. Please see below locations listed for each candidate.

Alan Davis wins prize for fiction

Alan Davis, Professor of English and Senior Editor of New Rivers Press/MSUM, has won the Prize Americana for Fiction 2010 from Hollywood Books International for his collection of stories So Bravely Vegetative. The book is available locally or from online vendors. “So Bravely Vegetative is a marvelous collection of stories—beautifully written, daringly inventive, frequently disturbing. Each story draws us into […]

Cinethusiasts produce video pieces for Human Relations Awards

MSUM Film Studies (Cinethusiasts Club) recently produced three video pieces as part of the Fargo Human Relations Commission’s 2011 Human Relations Awards. The awards ceremony took place during the MLK Jr. Celebration at the Fargo Theatre.  The video portraits were created to showcase the three award recipients (Taylor Gess, Dwight Schroeder and the FM Community Bike Workshop). The project was […]

Learn about sun dogs, halos and more at Jan. 21 physics seminar

Matt Craig, MSUM Department of Physics & Astronomy, will talk about “Upside-down Rainbows, Sun Dogs and Halos: Optical Phenomenon Caused by Ice Crystals” at a free seminar Friday, January 21 from 2:30-3:20 p.m. in Hagen Hall room 325. Ice crystals in the atmosphere cause a much wider variety of optical effects than water droplets. Water droplets cause rainbows, but ice […]