MSUM alumna awarded $1.5 million fellowship

Dr. Heather Cegla (MSUM alumna Physics/Astronomy Spring 2010) was awarded a UKRI Future Leader Fellowship at the University of Warwick in England. This $1.5 million, four-year grant will allow Dr. Cegla to build a world-class research group developing techniques to enable the unambiguous detection of Earth-like planets around other stars. Dr. Cegla’s appointment is a tenure-track faculty position at Warwick.

Students to present research at Society for Neuroscience conference

Six MSUM undergraduates (Bioscience majors Devante Delbrune, Asma Mohammed, Ritu Pandey, and Caitlyn Schaffer; BCBT major Tommy Ajayi; and Computer Science major Neeju Singh) will be presenting their research at the annual Society for Neuroscience conference in Chicago, IL that takes place October 19-23. These six students will be attending and presenting at this meeting along with their faculty mentor […]

Tropical Conservation Biology information meeting

Friday, Oct. 18 | 4 p.m. | Hagen 113 Tropical Conservation Biology is a field course about the ecological, social, and economic aspects of balancing human activity with conserving biodiversity. The course includes a 12-day trip to Costa Rica over spring break. We are now accepting students for Spring 2020. An informational meeting will be held 4 p.m. Friday, October […]

Geosciences faculty, students attend workshop

Karl Leonard, Professor of Geosciences, and two geoscience students (David Ahumada and Karissa Beierle) attended the 2019 Williston Basin Core Workshop. The event familiarized scientists from academia and industry with the 19 hydrocarbon producing horizons represented in rock core housed at the newly remodeled William M. Laird Core Library. The workshop took place October 7 through 10 in Grand Forks, […]