World-renowned jazz trumpet virtuoso Marvin Stamm joins the MSUM Jazz Ensemble for an evening of great music on Thursday, April 22 at 7:30 p.m. in Hansen Theater. Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for students with ID. MSUM students, faculty and staff can get free tickets up until the day of the show. Advance ticket sales through the MSUM box office: 218.477.2271. Hope to see you for this special event.
The week of April 12-16, students, faculty, staff, alumni and the general public can participate in walking a six-site route throughout campus. WALK THE DRAGON! Read more at http://news.mnstate.edu/2010/03/walk-the-dragon/
A Bob Hope USO Show will be held Saturday, April 17 at the Historical & Cultural Society of Clay County at the Hjemkomst Center. The event will kick off with Fargo’s New Horizons Band under the direction of Ed Christianson at 1 p.m., followed by a performance by Lynn “Win” Roberts as Bob Hope, Red Skeleton, Jack Benny, and more at 2 p.m. Click headline for more information.
Heather Sanden, a 2008 MSUM physics graduate, will speak about the complex relationship between energy use and its impact on the environment in a talk titled “Energy and Physics around the World: Geothermal and other renewable energy resources from Iceland to Moorhead” Tuesday, April 6 at 7:30 p.m. in the Science Lab Building 118. The talk is free and open to the public. Click headline for more information.
The MSUM Student Senate has numerous events planned for the 2010 Diversity Week, including keynote speaker TJ Leyden, who will talk on “Turning from Hate” Wednesday, April 14 at 7 p.m. in the CMU Ballroom. After 15 years as a neo-Nazi white supremacist activist and recruiter, Tom “TJ” Leyden experienced a profound change of heart, turned away from hate and began teaching tolerance. A hard-hitting story of confronting racism, anti-Semitism and hate crimes.”— CampusSpeak. Click headline for all campus events.