Mass comm student selected for prestigious photography workshop

Mass communications senior Chris Franz has been selected to attend the prestigious 2011 Eddie Adams Workshop in New York, an intense four-day gathering of top photography professionals and carefully selected students. Fifty students, both undergraduate and graduate, and 50 professionals are selected by portfolio to take part in the workshop. In addition to the Eddie Adams workshop, Chris won the […]

Dan McEwen publishes paper in journal

Dan McEwen, Biosciences, has had a paper published in the journal Ambio with colleagues from North Dakota State University, University of Texas at El Paso, and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. The paper is entitled “Changes in tundra pond limnology: re-sampling Alaskan ponds after 40 years}, related to field work he did over the past three summers in Arctic Alaska. Ambio […]

Han Li to serve as AE for international conference

School of Business faculty member Han Li is serving as Associate Editor in IS Security and Privacy track for 2011 International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2011), to be held in Shanghai, China, Dec. 4-7, 2011. ICIS is the major annual meeting of the Association for Information Systems (AIS), which has over 4,000 members representing universities in over 95 countries […]

IFO workshops for faculty nearing retirement

On Sept. 6 & 7, Russ Stanton of the Inter Faculty Organization will be putting on workshops at Moorhead State University for both new faculty and faculty members who are contemplating retirement within the next five years. In addition, he will meet for 1/2 hour with individual faculty members to discuss their particular retirement concerns.

Important notice for new faculty

(and faculty members who just achieved tenure) According to law, all new faculty members have one year from the time they begin employment to choose between the Individual Retirement Account Plan (IRAP) and the Teachers Retirement Association (TRA) as their basic pension plan. If you don’t choose a plan, you will default into the IRAP plan.  As a result of […]