Benjamin Smith named Dille Award winner

Benjamin Smith has been selected as the 2012-13 recipient of the Dille Distinguished Faculty Lecturer Award at Minnesota State University Moorhead. Smith will present “The Gift of Language” at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 18 in Room 103 of the MSUM library. The lecture will address the unique human ability to choose what language we use in a given context based […]

Yolanda Arauza will speak at the Latino Oral History Project Reception

Dr. Yolanda Lara Arauza, Department of American Multicultural Studies, will be making introductory remarks at the Latino Oral History Project Reception, celebrating the completion of two multi-year oral history projects in the Red River Valley: Latino Leaders of the Red River Valley and Building the Migrant Infrastructure in the Red River Valley. Arauza and her husband, Abner, conducted over 20 […]

Global work to fight terrorism began long before 9/11

By: Ryan Johnson, INFORUM MOORHEAD – Long before the Sept. 11 attacks in America 11 years ago, the international community was working to combat terrorism. Minnesota State University Moorhead political science professor Andrew Conteh said Tuesday the first major effort was in 1925, when the League of Nations unsuccessfully tried to ratify an international treaty on terrorism. That work paved […]