Dr. Paula Comeau, a recent Ph.D. recipient in Natural Resources Management and Policy from NDSU and adjunct instructor at MSUM, collaborated with Alison Wallace, Biosciences Dept., and Tony Bormann, CSHE Outreach Coordinator, in addition to Drs. Christina Harris and Jack Norland at NDSU to publish a study titled “Analysis of Children’s Drawings to Gain Insight into Plant Blindness.” This article […]
Dr. Lisa Nawrot (interim Dean for CSHE) has a paper accepted for publication in the Journal of Vision. The article “Convergence and Divergence to Radial Optic Flow in Infancy” is based on data collected from more than 100 infants tested at the MSUM Child Development Lab with the involvement of undergraduate students. The research uses infra-red eye tracking to precisely […]
Brian Wisenden, Biosciences Department, published a paper in the Journal of Animal Ecology entitled “Evidence of incipient alarm signalling in fish” (see https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1365-2656.13062). The editorial board of JAE invites “In Focus” articles such as this one to highlight a particularly impactful paper (Bairos-Novak et al. 2019). Wisenden was chosen to author the In Focus because his chapter on “The cue-signal […]
The work of MSUM Physics/Sustainability/Chemistry majors Sakurako Tani, Salim Thomas, Melissa Foley, Gabe Buehler, and Abel Eshete was acknowledged in the international journal Solid State Ionics. The project seeks to understand the underlying physics of sodium ion conduction in glasses. The work has potential to improve sodium battery technology for use on an industrial scale in solar and wind farms. […]
Dr. Erik Gooding and Dr. Paul Sando were both selected to present at the Railroads in Native America Conference in commemoration of the 150th Anniversary of the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad. The Conference was from Sept. 12-15, 2019, held in Omaha, NE. Conference sponsors included the Union Pacific Railroad, the National Park Service, the Union Pacific’s Council of Native […]