MSUM math speaker talks about symmetry patterns

MSUM Mathematics Colloquium features Professor Joseph Gallian, University of Minnesota Duluth, in a talk titled “Using Mathematics to Create Symmetry Patterns” at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday Nov. 17 in MacLean Hall 167. A reception will be held at 4 p.m. Gallian is a distinguish professor of mathematics, active researcher and award-winning teacher. Click headline to read more.

“Pinocchio” showing at MSUM Nov. 21

“I want to be a real boy.” Carved from a piece of pine by a woodcarver named Geppetto in a small Italian village, the puppet Pinocchio dreams of becoming a real boy. Join us for this adventurous piece of physical theatre, complete with masks, clowning and child-like imagination, Saturday, Nov. 21 at 1 p.m. and again at 4 p.m. in the Roland Dille Center for the Arts Hansen Theatre. It’s fun for the whole family! For ticket information, please contact the MSUM Box Office at 218.477.2271.

Twin City jazz vocalist Lucia Newell and celebrated recording engineer Steve Wiese will be featured guests at MSUM Music Industry Summit

The third annual MSUM Music Industry Summit is set for November 11-12 at Gaede Theatre in the Roland Dille Center for the Arts on the MSUM campus. The event begins at 7:30 pm on November 11 when Lucia Newell will join jazz faculty Tom Strait, Nick Fryer, Allen Carter, Simon Rowe and Bill Law in concert. An outstanding Tri-College jazz combo will open the show. This concert event will also mark the official launch of MSUM’s student record label “Undeclared Records”. Admission to the show is adults $5/students free. Click headline to learn more.

MSUM hosts symposium on Teaching English Language Learners

MSU Moorhead is hosting the second annual TEAM Work Symposium: Teaching ELLS with Academics in Mind on Wednesday and Thursday Nov. 18 and 19. The theme is “Pulling Together for ELLS: Content and Language Instruction.” Kate Kinsella, Ed.D., a teacher educator in secondary education at San Francisco State University, is the keynote speaker. Click the headline to learn more.