Expanding Your Horizons Conference participants introduced to the field of Economics

MSUM students Samantha Carlson, Shrijana Chapagain, Anna Landsverk, and Jess Lhotak joined Drs. T. J. Hansen and Gregory Stutes to present the workshop, “The Choice is Yours,” as part of the Expanding Your Horizons Conference on April 7. This conference invites young women in the seventh, eighth, and ninth grades in Minnesota and North Dakota to a day of career […]

‘Prairie Post Office’ receives awards, recognition

Prairie Post Office: Enlarging the Common Life in Rural North Dakota (2017, NDSU Press), by authors Steven Bolduc (Economics) and Amy Phillips (formerly Social Work), and photographer Wayne Gudmundson (Communications, retired), received a Bronze medal in the Midwest—Best Regional Non-Fiction category of the 2018 IPPY Award. Since 1996, the IPPY Awards have been presented annually by the Independent Publisher Book […]

Art & Sewing as Activism: Behind ‘Behind the Seams’

Tuesday, March 27 | 3-4:30 p.m. | CMU 205 Meet the Minneapolis-based artists of “Behind the Seams.” Rachel Breen and Nickey Robare will speak about the genesis of their pop-up garment factory and the overlap between art and activism, sewing and community engagement. Rachel Breen investigates social justice issues through drawing, installation, performance and public art projects. Experimentation with mediums and […]