It’s Tiki Time! Get creative, kick the winter blues and decorate your department or office with tiki zest! To enter go to the Dragon Frost website and click on “entry forms” then click on “office decorating” and fill out the necessary information. Entry submissions should be submitted by Friday, February 4. Read more.
Steven Rosenstone, vice president for scholarly and cultural affairs, and professor of political science at the University of Minnesota, was selected Wednesday as the next chancellor of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities in a 14-1 vote by the Board of Trustees.
Zhimin Guan, Art and Design, is featured in a solo exhibition at the Jamestown (N.D.) Art Center in North Dakota from January 18 to February 14. The exhibition, titled “ Zhimin Guan Paintings, Drawings and Prints,” features 20 of Guan’s recent oil paintings, watercolors, pastels and mixed media works.
Craig Ellingson, a faculty member in the MSUM Theatre Department, was recently awarded one of six National Teaching Artist Grants from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. The grant supports Ellingson’s sabbatical leave during 2011-2012. He will participate in Dell’Arte International and its Physical Theatre certificate program in Blue Lake, Calif.
MSUM student Daniel Lang received a $5,000 Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship from the Institute of International Education (IIE) to participate in a study abroad program. Lang is one of 1,000 American undergraduate students from more than 380 colleges and universities to receive the award. Lang, an Art and Design major originally from Duluth, Minn., will participate in MSUM’s Eurospring […]