Library Database Adds and Drops for 2020-2021

The Livingston Lord Library is offering some new databases this year. We hope you will find them useful for your courses. New this year: JoVE Science Education videos Statista Harvard Business Publishing ebook Collection Ebook Central (Proquest) Vault Career Intelligence Titles which have been not been renewed include: Books In Print (Bowker) Gale Academic OneFile Select Gale OneFile: Educator’s Reference […]

Schultz earns doctoral degree, presents at virtual conferences this summer

Planetarium Director, Sara Schultz, completed her doctoral degree this summer from the University of Wyoming. Her degree is in Curriculum & Instruction with a focus on Science Education, in particular, using the planetarium as a teaching tool. Her doctoral research investigated the nature of formative assessment in the form of assessment conversations (i.e. strategic questioning) present in planetarium presentations across […]

Honoring a friend

By Kristin Johnson Bobbi (Jarvis) Mason and Greta (Magnuson) Shawstad had an extraordinary friendship. And it started when the elementary education majors met by chance at MSUM in the 1960s. They became friends when alphabetical seating charts forced them to sit by each other in class; their relationship deepened in the years after graduation even as they lived thousands of […]

Contact tracing opportunity

If you are interested in helping by being a Contract Tracer, please take the MDH recommended training from Johns Hopkins for instructions and a short training tutorial at: https://www.coursera.org/learn/covid-19-contact-tracing?edocomorp=covid-19-contact-tracing Be sure to email hr@mnstate to record your name as well! Thank you for considering this opportunity!