Minnesota State University Moorhead alumni Clair E. Peterson and Ardy L. (Hansen) Peterson have a combined teaching career of more than 60 years and together have touched thousands of students in Fargo and Moorhead—she as an elementary teacher at Lincoln and Carl Ben Eielson schools and he as an educator at Moorhead High School. Again they are impacting students—MSU Moorhead […]
Deb Seaburg, University College, recently provided two half-day professional development workshops in Bangalore, India. She presented “Why Smart Students Fail” to the teachers of Sameeksha School and “Student Success and Self-Motivation” for the instructors of the Karnataka Diocese Colleges.
Ok-Hee Lee, Teaching and Learning, contributed a chapter entitled, “Understanding Korean American Students: Facts, Not Myth,” to the second edition of “White Teachers/Diverse Classrooms: Creating Inclusive Schools, Building on Students’ Diversity, and Providing True Educational Equity,” edited by Julie G. Landsman and Chance W. Lewis last year and the book was published over the summer.
Steve Lindaas, Physics and Astronomy, attended the Machines of the Future Workshop August 9-12. This workshop covered material developed by the Southwest Center for Microsystems Education at the University of New Mexico. The workshop was held at the Center for Nanoscience Technology Training on the Fargo campus of the North Dakota College of Science. Participants worked in a cleanroom to […]
Biggest SNL stars got their start at The Second City Tina Fey. Steve Carell. Stephen Colbert and John Stewart. John Candy. James Belushi. Bill Murray and Gilda Radner. These men and women tested their wings, trained and conquered at The Second City, the country’s most prolific producer of successful comedians. The Second City’s latest generation of comedians comes to MSUM […]