Dragon Mentor information session for 2014-2015 academic year

There will be an information session for anyone interested in learning more about the Dragon Mentor position. The first of two informational sessions will be held Thursday, Dec. 5 at 7 p.m. in the Dahl Hall Lounge. The Dragon Mentors serve students who participate in Learning Communities. Students of all majors are eligible to apply. Application will go live on […]

Physics and astronomy alum receives doctorate in astrophysics

Heather Cegla, MSUM 2010 graduate in physics with an astronomy emphasis, received her doctorate in astrophysics from Queen’s University Belfast where she was on a full scholarship. While at MSUM, Cegla was a Goldwater Scholar and completed three summer research experiences for undergraduates funded by the National Science Foundation. https://star.pst.qub.ac.uk/wiki/users/hcegla/start

Faculty Development Center events this week

• Monday: Two-thirty Tea, “Clicker”questions using student devices, 2:30 p.m. • Wednesday: Two-thirty Tea, Creating student evaluations, 2:30 p.m. • Thursday: Online Teaching, WebEx, 8-9 a.m. • Thursday: Two-thirty Tea, Interpreting student evaluations, 2:30 p.m. • Friday: Common Read, Book selection for next year, soup provided! 12 p.m. www.mnstate.edu/faculty-development

MSUM response to slate.com article

An opinion article published by slate.com, A Ghost Town with a Quad, on Nov. 26, 2013 discusses university wide conversations at MSU Moorhead to adjust the numbers of its faculty members to a student body that has declined 10.9 percent since 2010. The article suggests that MSUM will soon have no departments of English, physics, or history and names several […]

MSUM Hosted Boy Scouts for “Merit Badge University”

Close to 200 Boy Scouts converged on the MSUM campus Saturday, Nov. 23 to work on merit badges. Named the “Merit Badge University” this is an event held annually at one of the three universities in the area to give scouts work on the badges that assist them in their trail toward the Eagle Rank. Merit badges represent skill or […]