A team of four MSUM undergraduates — Bioscience majors Kayla Mehrer, Asma Mohammed, Andrea Schaefer, and Nick VanRaden mentored by Biosciences professor Adam Stocker — was awarded second place in the Mayo Clinic’s annual IMPACT competition. The team submitted a proposal earlier this semester detailing their hypothesis explaining what may be the mechanistic link between binge alcohol drinking, addiction, and […]
Biosciences faculty members Sumali Pandey, Bee Wisenden and undergraduate student Whitney Shegrud were published in JMBE inclusive Science Issue. The topic of their work: “Using student-led Discussion and Reflection of a Public Health-Related Nonfictional Book as a Tool to Encourage Inclusive Pedagogy in an Undergraduate Classroom”
Dr. Donna Bruns Stockrahm and Dr. Christopher Merkord, Biosciences Department, took 13 Bioscience research students (and members of the MSUM Student Chapter of The Wildlife Society) to the Annual Meeting of the Minnesota Chapter of The Wildlife Society held in Willmar, MN, on 18-20 February 2020. The students presented 6 posters on their research: Morphometrics of female painted turtles (Chrysemys […]
MSUM Biosciences Research Students won the “Best Undergraduate Poster Award” at the Annual Meeting of the Minnesota Chapter of The Wildlife Society held in Willmar, MN, on 18-20 February 2020. In a long-term study (2001-2019), research students from the Biosciences Department at MSUM have live-trapped and marked over 1,000 painted turtles (Chryemys picta belli) in Clay County, Minnesota, in order […]
Dr. Sumali Pandey visited with the students and faculty in the Biology department at North Dakota State University, and presented a seminar on her research topic “Repeated inhalation of an environmental mold: innocuous or not?”