The MSUM Oceanarium will be welcoming sharks this coming spring! The MSUM Oceanarium received a generous donation to fund a 10 foot long, 4-foot-wide shark tank. The tank will be delivered in early February and aim to have it up and running in by late April. Keep an eye out for updates on our shark tank!
Six Minnesota State Moorhead undergraduate students presented the research they have been doing with Biosciences professor Dr. Adam Stocker at the Society for Neuroscience conference that took place in San Diego, CA from November 15th through 19th. Bioscience majors Madison Aberle, Aisha Chovuchovu, and Colton Tapson; BCBT majors Eyerusalem Kinfe and Opeyemi Olowoniyi; and BCBT/Psychology double major Guzoro Adumah, presented […]
This past November 14-16, Oceanarium students traveled to Kansas City Zoo and Aquarium to get a behind the scenes experience at their aquarium! They got to see the Zoo’s state of the art water quality lab, their food prep commissary, and quarantine spaces. Students asked the aquarium’s animal care manager questions about day-to-day operations and what the world of aquarium […]
Dr. Steve Lindaas, Physics and Astronomy, and Dr. Alison Wallace, Biosciences, attended the National Science Teachers Association conference in Minneapolis last week with seven MSUM graduates currently teaching middle and high school science, including Isaac Skalsky, physics and chemistry education; Erick Hernandez, physics education; and Katie Olson, Jake Pundsack, Anneliese Johnson, Briana Kowalke, and Whitney Shegrud, all life science education […]
Patrice Delaney, a former Minnesota State Moorhead Biosciences research student with Dr. Alison Wallace and currently a Senior Biologist with the United Prairie Foundation (UPF), brought a $2,000 grant from the Hector Foundation and her crew to campus to plant a highly diverse native pollinator garden. The location is a triangular are just south of Kise dining hall. Over 400 […]