Stockrahm receives distinguished alumna award from Marian University

Donna Bruns Stockrahm, Biosciences, received the Mother Clarissa Dillhoff Award for Distinguished Achievement in Mentoring at Marian University’s (Indianapolis, Ind.) distinguished alumni awards dinner Oct. 7. The award is given to an individual who has demonstrated the spirit of mentoring by providing guidance, support, encouragement and leadership to students, faculty, staff or to individuals in the broader community; and contributed […]

BCBT students and alumni published in biochemistry journal

MSUM Biochemistry and Biotechnology students and graduates are published in the Journal of Cellular Biochemistry. The article, entitled “α1 –Adrenergic receptor-induced cytoskeletal organization and cell motility in CCL39 fibroblasts requires phospholipase D,” appears in the October issue of the journal. Authors that participated in the research as MSUM undergraduates included Andy McCoy, Justin Voog, Jennifer Taves-Patterson, Nicole Korpi-Steiner, and Tony […]

Brian Wisenden gives talk at McMaster University

Brian Wisenden, Biosciences, gave an invited talk at the 2011-2012 Colloquium Series of the Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, on Oct. 13. The title of his lecture was “Co-evolution of parental care and anti-predator competence of the young in a biparental cichlid fish.”

Biology major receives MnSCU scholarship

Nicole Hall recognized for community service MSUM junior Nicole Hall has received a $1,500 Barbara J. Penny Scholarship, which recognizes Minnesota State Colleges & Universities students who have demonstrated a commitment to community service. Hall, a biology major with an emphasis in health and medical sciences, is from Kalispell, Mont., and is one of two students out of 30 applicants […]

Biology undergraduates publish in peer-reviewed journal

Biology undergraduates Justin Olson, Jenae Olson and Rachel Walsh have had their research findings receive final acceptance for publication by the North American Journal of Fisheries Management. The research, mentored by Biosciences faculty Brian Wisenden, was Justin’s senior year project for the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology emphasis within the Biology major. The project experimentally demonstrated that groups of predator-naive fish […]