Take a look at MSUM’s new Neuroscience minor launching just in time for fall registration! This minor is designed to complement many majors, including health-related, pre-med, psychology, and biosciences career paths. Check out the requirements attached and email Dr. Chad Duncan (Chad.Duncan@mnstate.edu) or Dr. Adam Stocker (Stocker@mnstate.edu) for details or questions.
The Goldwater Scholarship Foundation is pleased to announce that 396 new scholarships are being awarded for the 2020 competition. The Goldwater reviewers faced the difficult task of selecting scholarship recipients from a pool of 1,343 outstanding undergraduates nominated by 461 institutions, and this year MSUM’s own Kelsey Leach was selected as a scholar. Congratulations, Kelsey! Kelsey is a double major […]
Just kidding! But it’s time to plan your Summer 2020 schedule now.
Brian Wisenden, Biosciences Department, published a review paper in a special issue of the journal Diversity. The special issue is entitled “Predators as Agents of Selection and Diversification.” The review article summarizes 21 years of research at MSUM on the evolution of antipredator competence in larval convict cichlids that involved field work with MSUM undergraduates in Costa Rican streams and […]
Brian Wisenden, Biosciences Department, published a paper in the international peer-reviewed Wilson Journal of Ornithology on signal evolution in red-winged blackbirds. Collaborators on this project were Muir Eaton from Drake University and 23 undergraduates who comprised the summer field courses in Animal Behavior (Wisenden) and Field Ornithology (Eaton) at the Itasca Biological Field Station, University of Minnesota. Open-ended inquiry-based pedagogy […]