Join the MSUM Astronomy Club and the Fargo-Moorhead Astronomy Club for an evening of looking through telescopes and binoculars in the night sky, 8:30 – 10:30PM at the MSUM Regional Science Center (directions). If you have a telescope and want to set it up (or need help setting it up) please arrive a little earlier — 7:45 or 8 — […]
A unique study abroad experience brought together students from various majors for a once-in-a-lifetime trip through Italy and Turkey. “Traveling through a faculty-led program gave me the opportunity to explore with peers while learning from knowledgeable professors,” advertising & public relations student Celia Hawton shared. With students from diverse disciplines like art, history, and chemistry, professors took up the challenge […]
The SPARQ (Synthesizing Proposals for Ambitious Research Questions) competition is a program that charges students to think about potential solutions to challenging scientific research questions. Participating students must delve into primary literature to understand the scope of the question, then devise a hypothesis and means to address the question. Students were required to submit a brief written proposal and present […]
In a five-day span, 600 Horizon 5th grade students spent the afternoon on campus engaged in a variety of learning experiences. Student visited the Planetarium, Oceanarium, and experienced a science demonstration from several of our science departments. Through a collaborative effort, the 5th graders were able to meet one of their science standards, while getting to explore some of the […]
The Red River Valley section of the American Chemical Society held their annual Research Conference at Concordia College. Gracie Ayers (Senior, BS Biology) and Opeyemi Olowoniyi (Junior, Biochemistry & Biotechnology) both earned Judges’ Choice Awards for their poster presentations. Gracie and Yemi used this local conference as a preview of their upcoming presentations at the National American Chemical Society meeting […]