Pollinator garden by campus hummingbird to bring new life to MSUM

Ecology and evolutionary biology student Patrice Delaney is helping to bring new life to MSUM by planting a pollinator garden surrounding the university’s hummingbird sculpture. The hummingbird, created and installed a few years ago by Art Professor Chris Walla and his students, sits on a gray concrete block on the lawn near the Roland Dille Center for the Arts. MSUM […]

School of Art faculty Bachmeier, Sinner awarded grants from The Arts Partnership

Bachmeier and Sinner were 2 of 9 artists to receive funding from the Individual Artist Partnership annual juried grant round for 2020. Bachmeier received support for a multi-faceted project entitled “Conservation Through Clay,” which includes a national traveling exhibition debuting at the North Dakota Museum of Art in Grand Forks May 2021. The support allows Bachmeier to complete ceramic work […]

Walla receives 2020 Minnesota State Artist Initiative Grant

Professor Chris Walla of the School of Art received a fully funded 2020 Minnesota State Artist Initiative Grant to fund an ongoing body of text based sculpture. The Artist Initiative grant program is designed to support and assist professional Minnesota artists at various stages in their careers by encouraging artistic development, nurturing artistic creativity, and recognizing the contributions of individual […]

MSUM receives national grant for archaeological research at Poverty Point World Heritage Site

Minnesota State University Moorhead has been awarded a 2019 Preservation Technology and Training Grant for $29,577 from the United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service. The grant will fund a project which involves an international technology transfer of cutting-edge 3D ultra-high resolution ground penetrating radar (GPR) technology integrated with other surface and downhole geophysical methods, coring and soil […]

DeSutter receives two grants totaling $30,000

Keri DeSutter, School of Teaching and Learning, has received two grants from the Network for Excellence in Teaching (NExT). The first grant totaling $20,000 is focused upon beginning teacher effectiveness and the second grant totaling $10,000 is titled “Improving MSUM’s data use practices through disaggregation and enhanced data analysis strategies.” Both grants will support MSUM in meeting rigorous state and national […]