Friday, Nov. 16 | 3 p.m. | Planetarium – Bridges 167 Students Melissa Foley and Boston Heaford present: Sharing the Universe Through the Planetarium This past Summer 2018, Boston Heaford and Melissa Foley received Strong Scholarship funds to conduct research and create content for the MSUM Planetarium. The planetarium is a fun and effective teaching tool for people of every […]
MSUM students and a faculty member in Geosciences and Archeology from the Department of Anthropology and Earth Sciences attended and presented a poster at the Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America that took place in Indianapolis, IN from November 4-7. David Ahumada, Emily Hartwig, and Dominic Mugavaro presented a poster on the evolution of landscape and the implications […]
Friday, Nov. 9 | 3 p.m. | Hagen Hall 325 Using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance to Study Glassy Sodium Ionic Conductors – Dr. Ananda Shastri Sodium ionic conducting glasses have application in sodium batteries. There is great interest and economic potential in developing sodium batteries to store electrical energy generated from solar and wind farms. In this talk, we discuss a sodium-based glass recently […]
Tropical Conservation Biology (BIOL 335, LASC 10) is a field course about the ecological, socio-economic and politico-cultural aspects of balancing human activity and biological conservation. The course includes a 12-day trip to Costa Rica over spring break featuring everything from snorkeling with sea turtles to walking through cloud forest canopies. Registration for the Spring 2019 is now open. If you […]
Karissa LaMont, senior, communication studies In a changing world where everyone seems to have a never-ending to-do list, it is hard to imagine making time for anything else. Minnesota State University Moorhead wants to meet students where they are at, no matter what walk of life they are in. How can one fit college classes into an already busy lifestyle? […]