Applications for Interim Dean of the College of Science, Health, and the Environment are now being accepted

Applications for Interim Dean of the College of Science, Health, and the Environment are now being accepted. Screening begins Wednesday, March 30. To ensure full consideration, interested persons must apply no later than March 28. The full vacancy notice and application instructions can be found at https://www.mnstate.edu/humanresources/employment/unclassified/

Curie, the Biosciences Department’s iguana, has passed away

Curie, the Biosciences Department’s beloved iguana, passed away on Monday, March 14.  Curie had been declining for some time due to his advanced age.  He was donated from a member of the community in February 2010, at the age of approximately 6 years, and was an immediate hit on campus.  He could often be seen strolling the hallways of Langseth […]

Lisa Nawrot elected to the Council on Undergraduate Research

Lisa Nawrot (Psychology) has been elected as a Councilor to the Psychology Division of the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR). The mission of the CUR is to support and promote high-quality undergraduate student-faculty collaborative research and scholarship. The CUR hosts an undergraduate research poster session on Capitol Hill, produces a Quarterly journal, and provides special Institutes on undergraduate research and […]

Adam Stocker published in the peer-reviewed journal PLoS ONE

Adam Stocker, Biosciences, had a paper published in the peer-reviewed journal PLoS ONE titled: “Emx1 is Required for Neocortical Area Patterning.” The published findings identify a new gene that participates in specifying functional areas in the developing neocortex. The neocortex is the most recently evolved and the most iconic part of the human brain (i.e. it is the large wrinkled […]

MSUM Physics and Astronomy Seminar Series Presents: New Stars, Exoplanets, Looking for Asteroids and Squashing Bugs

Join the Department of Physics and Astronomy on Friday, March 4 from 3-3:50 p.m. in Hagen 325. Several undergraduates at MSUM are working a variety of research projects using data from MSUM’s telescope. The students will each present a summary of the work they are doing, which includes a search for new variable stars, measurements of the properties of planets in other solar systems, […]