NEW Leadership Northern Lights awarded two $5,000 grants

MSUM’s NEW Leadership Northern Lights program, coordinated by Deb White, Sociology, was recently awarded a $5,000 grant from West Central Initiative and a $5,000 grant from the FM Area Foundation Women’s Fund. NEW Leadership Northern Lights provides leadership training, inspiration, and support for women who do not have extensive leadership experience. Each year, approximately 40 women are selected to participate […]

Minnesota Remembers Vietnam meetings, training

A team of MSUM faculty and staff engaged in meetings and training for Minnesota Remembers Vietnam at the Minnesota Humanities Center in St. Paul over the weekend. Shireen Alemadi and Danielle Page attended the Program Directors meeting, while Dr. Lisa Nawrot and Elizabeth Evert Karnes completed two intense days of facilitator training. After competitive application process, MSUM was selected as one […]

Sumali Pandey awarded $25,000 grant

Sumali Pandey, Biosciences Department, has been awarded a $25,000 grant from the High Plains Intermountain Center for Agriculture Health and Safety (HICAHS), to support her research on epigenetic and transcriptomic events associated with mold exposures. Mold related exposures are frequent in a farm environment, and this research will benefit the diagnostic and therapeutic decision making process in the agricultural community. […]