MSUM, NDSU co-hosting virtual microbiology conference

Friday, Sept. 25 | 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. This year, faculty at North Dakota State University (NDSU) and Minnesota State University Moorhead (MSUM) are co-hosting the 80th Annual meeting of American Society for Microbiology’s North Central Branch. The conference will be held, virtually, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Central Time on Friday, Sept. 25, 2020. The branch will […]

Pollinator garden by campus hummingbird to bring new life to MSUM

Ecology and evolutionary biology student Patrice Delaney is helping to bring new life to MSUM by planting a pollinator garden surrounding the university’s hummingbird sculpture. The hummingbird, created and installed a few years ago by Art Professor Chris Walla and his students, sits on a gray concrete block on the lawn near the Roland Dille Center for the Arts. MSUM […]

Patrice Delaney presents on prairie restoration at the online Student Academic Conference

Ecology and evolutionary biology student Patrice Delaney found her passion for the prairie last summer. Her passion turned into research, and although the Student Academic Conference is not happening in person, her project on “Monitoring a Local Prairie Restoration’s Success Before and After a Controlled Burn” will be available on the SAC website. Q: What is your project about? A: […]

Wisenden publishes review paper in Diversity

Brian Wisenden, Biosciences Department, published a review paper in a special issue of the journal Diversity. The special issue is entitled “Predators as Agents of Selection and Diversification.” The review article summarizes 21 years of research at MSUM on the evolution of antipredator competence in larval convict cichlids that involved field work with MSUM undergraduates in Costa Rican streams and […]