Biosciences faculty accepted into yearlong functional genomics residency

Faculty from the Biosciences Department: Shireen Alemadi, Becky Andres, Sara Anderson, Tamara Mans and Alison Wallace were accepted into a yearlong functional genomics residency. The residency kicked off with participation in the 2012 ASM/JGI Functional Genomics Institute: Connecting Bioinformatics-Driven Hypotheses to Wet Lab Projects. The Institute was held June 24 – 28 at Hiram College in Hiram, Ohio.

Dragon Digest submission form

We are having temporary problems with the Dragon Digest submission form. If you have submitted an entry in the past week and it has not been posted we apologize for the inconvenience. For the time being you can send your Dragon Digest and Student News entries to Courtney Weatherhead at weatheco@mnstate.edu. We will send an update when the problem is […]

Dr. Lisa Stewart trains Minnesota Reading Corps members and teachers

Dr. Lisa H. Stewart, School Psychology, trained Americorps Minnesota Reading Corps members and their internal coach teacher partners at the St. Paul River Centre August 13-17. This year 1,187 MRC members will provide early literacy and reading research-based interventions to children from age three to 3rd grade in over 600 schools and preschools throughout the state. MRC is the largest […]

Steve Lindaas attended the AAPT conference

Steve Lindaas, Physics and Astronomy, attended the summer AAPT (American Association of Physics Teachers) conference in Philadelphia from July 28 to August 1. He attended a workshop on “Using FPGAs in the Digital Lab” and gave an invited talk “Elementary Electronics: From Simple to Sophisticated Circuits” in the session on Labs at Many Levels. As vice-chair of the Committee on […]