Twelve psychology students enrolled in Psychology 390: Animal Assisted Therapies each completed eight hours of service and experiential learning activities at Red River Equestrian Center north of Moorhead this summer. Students learned about what goes into taking care of therapy horses, observed a special needs riding lesson and learned about horse communication and herd behavior. Students also had the opportunity […]
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) hosted the 2019 Noyce Summit: The Role of Teacher Preparation Programs in STEM Teacher Retention in High-Need School Districts in Washington DC July 10-12. In attendance were Steve Lindaas, Physics and Astronomy, and Alison Wallace, Biosciences, co-principal investigators with Tim Harms, Mathematics, for MSUM’s Noyce […]
Tim Harms, Mathematics Department, attended the Cognitively Guided Instruction Research & Policy Forum June 24. This was held in Minneapolis, MN as part of the National CGI Conference.
Dr. David Kramar from Geosciences was recently invited to collaborate on a bald eagle telemetry and banding project in Iowa with researchers from Conservation Science Global and the USFWS out of the Moline, IL office. The project required accessing the eagle nests and capturing the juvenile eagles so they could be outfitted with high-resolution GSM-GPS telemetry units. The purpose of […]
The Graduate Program Consortium for Concurrent Enrollment Instructors Workgroup was formed in response to the Academic and Student Affairs division proposal for Collaboration Funding for Multi-Campus Collaborations. This consortium was awarded funds and is charged with designing and delivering a strategic rollout of predominately online graduate courses across several disciplines to meet the recently clarified expectations from the HLC for […]