In October, Dr. Butler’s students in Introduction to Physical Anthropology (ANTH 120) visited the Chahinkapa Zoo in Wahpeton, ND for an immersive primate behavior observation experience – continuing a long-standing collaborative tradition between Minnesota State Moorhead and the zoo. Students had a unique opportunity to engage directly with the primates they study in class. Zoo staff begin the visit with […]
Join the Minnesota State Moorhead Astronomy Club and the FM Astronomy Club tonight in Parking lot R3 (next to the Paseka Center for Business) to see some stellar sights through telescopes! You will be able to see the planet Saturn, star clusters and nebulae in our Milky Way galaxy and even other galaixes millions of light years away. Free and […]
Geoscience students spent time in the field this October with Professors Karl Leonard and Michelle Abshire, investigating possible heavy metal contamination in the soils of the former Ponderosa Golf Course at the Minnesota State Moorhead Regional Science Center. Students Thalia, Chloe, and Izzy collected soil samples from multiple locations, including former tee boxes, the old fairway, and nearby forested areas. […]
Please join me in a hearty congratulations for Spring 2025 Anthropology graduate Reid Haugen, who has won the Jeanette E. Stephens Student Paper Award sponsored by the Illinois Archaeology Survey. His paper titled “Resistance Isn’t Always Futile: Electrical Resistivity at Historic Nauvoo” draws on geophysical methods, specifically electrical resistivity, to explore buried architectural features at a site of deep historical […]
Moorhead Alumna and emeritus faculty co-discover new exoplanet Minnesota State Moorhead Department of Physics and Astronomy alumni Mara DeRung, Fall 2023, and Emily Watson, Spring 2025, and Professor Emeritus Matt Craig are part of a team that discovered 4 planets around other stars. Data taken by Mara and Emily at the Paul P. Feder Observatory at the MSUM Regional Science […]