Night’s mystery and beauty explored

MSUM event features music, poetry, astronomy and drama MSUM faculty and students from four academic departments come together to explore the night Friday, Feb. 4 at 7:30 p.m. in Glasrud Auditorium in Weld Hall. The program interweaves readings of poetry with dramatic presentations, music performances and a star show, featuring images from the Hubble Space Telescope, and other observatories operated […]

Alan Davis wins prize for fiction

Alan Davis, Professor of English and Senior Editor of New Rivers Press/MSUM, has won the Prize Americana for Fiction 2010 from Hollywood Books International for his collection of stories So Bravely Vegetative. The book is available locally or from online vendors. “So Bravely Vegetative is a marvelous collection of stories—beautifully written, daringly inventive, frequently disturbing. Each story draws us into […]

Write Site opens next week

The Write Site will open on Tuesday, January 18 at 9:30 a.m. The Write Site is located in Lommen 95. Hours are: 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday; 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Friday; and 8-10 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. If you would like a writing consultant to come to your class to explain the free services offered in the Write […]

Communication Studies alum receives Fulbright Assistantship

Leigh Wilson-Mattson, a 2009 Communication Studies graduate, has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship for the coming year. She departed for Malaysia Dec. 31, 2010 and will work for 10 months in the East Asian country. Following a two-week orientation in the capital of Kuala Lumpur, she will teach in the Terengganu province. There, she’ll teach conversational English to […]