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 […]
Dr. Alison Wallace, Biosciences Department, presented the afternoon keynote presentation at the North Dakota State University’s School of Natural Resource Sciences annual research symposium on November 14th. The talk was titled “Climate Ambition in 2025: the Impact of Science on Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs)” and presented information and insights gained from Dr. Wallace’s recent two-year fellowship experience at the United […]
A 160-acre prairie restoration, funded by a Minn. trust fund, is the focus of a Science Museum of Minnesota documentary. Bioscience professor Alison Wallace will be featured in a documentary created by the Science Museum of Minnesota. This documentary will focus on the prairie restoration at the Minnesota State Moorhead Regional Science Center (RSC), and is expected to be released in […]