Do you really know what happens behind the scenes at MSUM? MSUM alumnus and Grounds crew supervisor Kyle Kopacek (fitness/sport science) and psychology student Jonas Matzen are two of many workers on the Grounds crew who keep MSUM’s campus looking beautiful. There are 35 acres of parking lots and 11 miles of sidewalk to cover and maintain. The more hands, […]
Damith Rozairo, a 2009 MSUM physics graduate, played an essential role in Appareo’s emergency ventilator project to provide critical resources during the Coronavirus pandemic. Once complete, they expect to deliver 2,000 ventilators to the state of North Dakota and 1,000 to South Dakota. “When this project started, everyone in the company who is involved offered to work late nights to […]
Ecology and evolutionary biology student Patrice Delaney is helping to bring new life to MSUM by planting a pollinator garden surrounding the university’s hummingbird sculpture. The hummingbird, created and installed a few years ago by Art Professor Chris Walla and his students, sits on a gray concrete block on the lawn near the Roland Dille Center for the Arts. MSUM […]
During these unsettling, challenging, and stressful times the Health and Physical Education Department (HPE) is offering a Mindfulness Meditation course Fall Semester, HLTH 190 – Mindfulness. Mindfulness focuses on the present moment to help reduce stress, promote relaxation, and increase awareness.
Prior MSUM Geography student, Jacob Larson and Geosciences professors Dr. David Kramar and Dr. Karl Leonard published “A Geostatistical Analysis of Seismicity in Oklahoma Using Regression Trees and Neural Networks” in the Journal Physical Geography. This research utilizes machine learning to establish relationships between wastewater injection sites associated with the shale-gas industry, and the prevalence of earthquake activity in Oklahoma. […]