MSUM will hold commencement as planned on Thursday, Dec. 16. Please use your discretion in making travel decisions. If you can’t make the in-person ceremony, you can watch it live. Minnesota State University Moorhead will award degrees to more than 500 students during its fall commencement program Thursday, Dec. 16, in the university’s Nemzek Fieldhouse. The 1 p.m. ceremony also includes […]
MSUM Biosciences students Alex Seigel, Izzy DeVriendt and Madi Strand along with faculty mentors Brian Wisenden (Biosciences) and Ananda Shastri (Physics) have published their research in the international peer-reviewed journal Journal of Fish Biology https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jfb.14965. The title of their research is Association of predation risk with a heterospecific vocalization by an anabantoid fish. In this experiment, Alex, Izzy and Madi […]
Undergraduate students mentored by Brian Wisenden (Biosciences) and Ananda Shastri (Physics) presented their research at the annual meeting of the Animal Behavior Society meeting in early August. The poster presentations were (* indicates student co-author): 1. Daniel Paulson* & Brian Wisenden. 2021. Zebrafish (Danio rerio) Embryos Hatch Early to Avoid Risk of Egg Predation But Have Higher Risk to Predators […]
Please join faculty of Minnesota State University Moorhead and staff at Tamarac National Wildlife Refuge in the launch of our project, Wild Inspired. This event will take place on Sunday, June 13, from 1:00 to 4:00 PM. Visitors of the refuge will be instructed how to download the new “Wild Inspired” App, in Android or Apple formats for smartphones. Visitors […]
Brian Wisenden (Biosciences Department) and Ananda Shastri (Physics and Astronomy Department) published a peer-reviewed research paper in Behavioural Processes with four MSUM undergraduates Alex Seigel, Izzy DeVriendt, Savannah Hohenstein and Mark Lueders. The citation for research paper is: Seigel AR, DeVriendt IG, Hohenstein SJ, Lueders MB, Shastri A, Wisenden BD. 2021. Tone deaf: association of an auditory stimulus with predation […]