Dr. Ted Gracyk (Dept. of Philosophy, MSUM) is going to give a colloquium Wednesday, March 26, at 4:15 p.m. in Langseth Hall 118 (Science Lecture Room). His topic is “Audiences, Performances, and Virtual Performances.” The following is the abstract of his paper: Although painters create paintings with the intention that they will be viewed, and composers create music with the […]
Robert “Bob” Louis Pender, 78, (01/26/1936 – 02/27/2014) son of Louis and Louise (Burns) Pender of Chicago, IL, passed away February 27, 2014 at Sanford Health Palliative Care in Fargo. Bob was born and raised in Chicago, IL, spending summers with family in Shawnee, OK. After high school, he served in the US Navy. He graduated with his bachelors and […]
Dr. Lynn Mahlum, Director of Teacher Education and Field Experiences, presented at AACTE in Indianapolis on March 2. As a member of Network for Excellence in Teaching (NExT), Mahlum collaborated with colleagues from Winona State, Bethel, Roosevelt Education Center, and FHI 360 to present ‘New Clinical Experiences: Earlier, Longer, More Frequent, and Higher Quality.’
After a nearly year-long conversation among and between faculty and administration, the temporarily named “College of Humanities and Social Sciences” has decided on the appellation as an official one. The name is intended both to identify its disciplines with traditional categories and to suggest affinities between humanities and social science areas.
Oscar Flores and TJ Hansen, Economics, presented a paper at the Eastern Economics Association in Boston, Mass. Flores and Hansen attempt to explain differences in freshman retention rates across public, four-year institutions in the nation.