Patrick Johns, president of Anoka-Ramsey Community College, was appointed president of Lake Superior College in Duluth by the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities Board of Trustees. Johns, 56, has been president of Anoka-Ramsey Community College in Coon Rapids and Cambridge since 1991. His new appointment takes effect July 1. Click headline to read more.
Jane Giedt, Nursing, has received the Minnesota Association of Colleges of Nursing (MACN) Outstanding Nurse Educator Award for 2009-2010. Giedt, PhD, RN, CNE, has provided leadership and inspiration to nurses and nursing students for over 35 years in undergraduate and graduate programs locally and regionally. She has taught at every level in nursing education: hospital school of nursing, BSN, RN-to-BSN, MS, and the Doctorate. In addition to her long tenure with MSUM, she recently completed a Fulbright where she taught university-level nursing on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus. Further international professional travel has included her military service in Desert Storm. Click headline to read full release.
Linda Fuselier, Biosciences, has been named the new Women’s Studies Director. The position provides leadership for the Women’s Studies major and minor and the Women’s Studies programmatic committee. Fuselier has a long record of service to the Women’s Studies program and most recently helped to develop the “Women in Science” certificate. She holds the Ph.D. in Biological Sciences from the University of Kentucky.
The MSUM Model United Nations team competed in the 34th Annual Arrowhead Model UN Regional Conference in River Falls, Wis., April 15-18. The 21-member team brought back nine awards. Rapportueur awards were presented to Amanda Zenk and Dominique Rolando. Best Delegate award nominee awards went to E. Allan Branstitter, Buba Kanagi, Dominique Rolando, Cody Frovarp, Rohan John and Vaneesha Dusoruth. The DPRK delegation received the Best Delegation nominee award. Andrew Conteh, Political Science, served at the team advisor.
Three English Literature majors will be presenting papers at the Northern Plains
Conference on Early British Literature April 23-24 at the University of Mary, Bismarck, N.D. The following students will constitute the session: The Future of the Organization I: Undergraduate Panel. The presenters are: Vanessa Perkins: “Women and Revenge in Titus Andronicus”; Rachael Johnson: “Milton’s Tree of Knowledge as Highest Providence”; and Adam Heidebrink: “Gulliver and the Quest for Freedom.” This is the third year Stephen Hamrick, English, has taken an MSUM undergraduate panel to present work at this regional conference.