Michelle Abshire is Moorhead’s newest Assistant Professor of Geosciences. Michelle is excited to teach multiple courses in the Anthropology and Earth Sciences department. Read more about Michelle. Welcome to the Dragon Community, Michelle!
Please join me in a hearty congratulations for Spring 2025 Anthropology graduate Reid Haugen, who has won the Jeanette E. Stephens Student Paper Award sponsored by the Illinois Archaeology Survey. His paper titled “Resistance Isn’t Always Futile: Electrical Resistivity at Historic Nauvoo” draws on geophysical methods, specifically electrical resistivity, to explore buried architectural features at a site of deep historical […]
Moorhead Alumna and emeritus faculty co-discover new exoplanet Minnesota State Moorhead Department of Physics and Astronomy alumni Mara DeRung, Fall 2023, and Emily Watson, Spring 2025, and Professor Emeritus Matt Craig are part of a team that discovered 4 planets around other stars. Data taken by Mara and Emily at the Paul P. Feder Observatory at the MSUM Regional Science […]
Please join us for an informational meeting about the upcoming Faculty-led tour to Italy and Turkey. The meeting will be held on Wednesday, September 17, in MA 172, from 4-5 p.m. The excursion will occur over Spring Break 2026, and will include: Rome, Pompeii, Florence, Ravenna, Venice, and Istanbul. This interdisciplinary journey will cover topics such as medicine/art, sustainability/trade, religion/museum […]
Come out to see the stars and do some hands-on activities. The Minnesota State Moorhead Astronomy Club and the FM Astronomy Club will, in conjunction with the Minnesota State Moorhead Planetarium and Buffalo River State Park, have several telescopes set up and some hands-on activities in the Minnesota State Moorhead Regional Science Center. Free and open to all! NOTE: This […]