Undergraduate research assistant needed in the psychology department. We are working on a large project that studies the attachment, mental health and online and offline friendships. We have a large data set and would like to give 1 or 2 highly motivated, advanced, undergraduate students the opportunity to write up a research poster using part of the data set to […]
Monday, Nov. 19 | 4-4:45 p.m. | Langseth 118 Students in all majors are invited to an informational meeting for the Costa Rica course, aka Tropical Conservation Biology (BIOL 335, LASC 10). The course includes a 12-day trip to Costa Rica over spring break where students learn how the country has succeeded in balancing human activity and biodiversity conservation as […]
Friday, Nov. 16 | 3 p.m. | Planetarium – Bridges 167 Students Melissa Foley and Boston Heaford present: Sharing the Universe Through the Planetarium This past Summer 2018, Boston Heaford and Melissa Foley received Strong Scholarship funds to conduct research and create content for the MSUM Planetarium. The planetarium is a fun and effective teaching tool for people of every […]
MSUM students and a faculty member in Geosciences and Archeology from the Department of Anthropology and Earth Sciences attended and presented a poster at the Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America that took place in Indianapolis, IN from November 4-7. David Ahumada, Emily Hartwig, and Dominic Mugavaro presented a poster on the evolution of landscape and the implications […]
Friday, Nov. 9 | 3 p.m. | Hagen Hall 325 Using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance to Study Glassy Sodium Ionic Conductors – Dr. Ananda Shastri Sodium ionic conducting glasses have application in sodium batteries. There is great interest and economic potential in developing sodium batteries to store electrical energy generated from solar and wind farms. In this talk, we discuss a sodium-based glass recently […]