Board of Trustees Awards for Excellence Nominations for Teaching Faculty Due September 30

MSUM is participating in the nomination and submission process for the MinnState Board of Trustees Awards for Excellence for Teaching Faculty – Educator of the Year. Per the announcement, these awards acknowledge and provide system-wide recognition for consistently superior professional achievement of our college and university faculty. Faculty who have served 3 years in the MinnState system are eligible. Anyone […]

Neuroscience Minor & Journal Discussion Group Meetings

Neuroscience Meetings on Campus this Month! Come to our Neuroscience Minor Meet & Greet, meet faculty and students, and eat free food! Then stay for our Journal Discussion Group where we’ll be questioning and discussing the Serotonin Theory of Depression. Wednesday 9/28, Hagen 104 Science/Tech Library, 6 p.m. Check here for details and  to download our article for discussion. (https://sites.google.com/view/msum-neuroscience/home) ————————————————————– […]

MSUM Students Contribute Data to NASA Mission

MSUM students Mara DeRung and Emily Watson submitted observations of an exoplanet transit to NASA’s TESS mission as part of the ground follow-up group. A transit occurs when a planet orbiting another star passes in front of the star, briefly dimming its light. The green line in the graph below shows the tiny dip in brightness of the star as […]

HLC Coordinating Committee leads successful completion of Year 4 Assurance Review   

Dear Colleagues and Students,  I’m happy to report that MSUM received confirmation in August from the Higher Learning Commission (HLC) that the university successfully completed its Year 4 Assurance Review with no recommended monitoring.   This four-year review is a critical milestone in MSUM’s regional accreditation. A team of our peers from 5 other regional institutions completed an extensive evaluation of […]