By: Meredith Holt, INFORUM “Women of influence” is an ongoing series exploring the women in our community who have the most impact and influence. Each profile will explore a different element of influence and redefine what it means. MOORHEAD – Minnesota State University Moorhead’s president has been dubbed “Hurricane Edna” by her peers. Colleague Anne Blackhurst says the nickname is […]
By: Emily Welker, INFORUM GRAND FORKS – National Weather Service officials are warning that a sustained warm-up could happen here by the end of the week, ending our extended winter weather but hastening the melt and flooding throughout the region. NWS meteorologist Jeff Makowski confirmed that flood warnings are in effect for the Minenesota cities of Dilworth and Sabin along […]
Dr. Kenyon Williams, Professor of Percussion, spent three weeks of his sabbatical in Ghana where he studied drumming and dance with Ewe people of the Volta region of Ghana. During this time, he lived in the small rural village of Kopeiya at the Dagbe Art and Culture Center which was created by a family of master drummers from the area […]
Photographer’s Forum College Photo Contest: Photographers Caitlin Abram, Ashley Wegh, Roni Delany, Haley Frost, Ashley Transgrud and Kristen Perala were chosen as finalist for the Photographer’s Forum Annual College Photo Competition. Their work was chosen from over 16,000 entries. Kirsten Perela’s work received an honorable mention, one of only 100 awarded. Their work will be featured in the Best of […]
Philosophy major Lance Pearson presented his paper, “A Moral Accounting of Unrequited Love: Perspectives from both Hume and Kant” at the 2013 Minnesota Philosophical Society Undergraduate Conference on April 13 at St. Catherine University in St. Paul, Minn. Also attending the conference were Philosophy majors Jacob Hedlund (President of the Philosophy Club), Ilerioluwa Oyebanjo, and Stephon Stulken.