On Friday, Jan. 22, 3-3:50 pm (Hagen 325), faculty members will give 10-15 minute talks about current projects of interest. Juan Cabanela, Color Imaging in Astronomy: More than Just a Pretty Picture. I will briefly discuss the testing of a color astronomical camera and the new science that can be done using such a camera at a small observatory like […]
Dr. Tim Harms, Mathematics Dept., presented a session titled “Advantage Math Recovery Elementary and Beyond” at a Fargo Public Schools Professional Development day on Jan. 18, 2016 to 3rd – 5th grade educators. Teachers from Jefferson, Lincoln, and Ed Clapp Elementary Schools took part in this professional development.
Nearly 120 Horizon Middle School AVID Students will be touring MSUM campus on Thursday, January 14. After being welcomed by Admissions, the students will get to participate in activities all around campus, including a round-robin tour of 5 arts activities (e.g. drum circle, caricatures, improv, etc), DNA extraction from strawberries, a Q&A with college students and faculty panels and planetarium shows.
From National Science Foundation’s Robert Noyce Scholarship program MSU Moorhead has been awarded close to $1.2 million from the National Science Foundation’s Robert Noyce Scholarship program. The five-year grant, Preparing STEM Teachers to Successfully Navigate the Urban to Rural Gradient, will facilitate the licensure of approximately 35 new Science Technology Engineering and Math (STEM) teachers in outstate Minnesota. The majority […]
Oscar Flores and T.J. Hansen, Economics, had the paper “The Impact of Local Economic Conditions on the Retention of College Freshman at Regional, Public Universities in the United States” published in the December issue of Regional, Sectoral, and Economic Studies. Using six years of data for 180 public universities with a master Carnegie classification, Flores and Hansen, find support for […]