Archaeology Alum Wins Paper Competition

Please join me in a hearty congratulations for Spring 2025 Anthropology graduate Reid Haugen, who has won the Jeanette E. Stephens Student Paper Award sponsored by the Illinois Archaeology Survey. His paper titled “Resistance Isn’t Always Futile: Electrical Resistivity at Historic Nauvoo” draws on geophysical methods, specifically electrical resistivity, to explore buried architectural features at a site of deep historical […]

Alum’s passion fuels communications career in the music industry

A love for singing and songwriting led Dawn Delvo 06’ to Minnesota State Moorhead’s music industry program — and eventually to the red carpet at the Grammys. Dawn chose Minnesota State Moorhead’s music industry program for its unique combination of performance and business training. That foundation prepared her to thrive in Nashville, where she’s now VP of Communications at Black […]

Moorhead Alumna and emeritus faculty co-discover new exoplanet

Moorhead Department of Physics and Astronomy alumna Madelyn Madsen, class of 2023, and Professor Emeritus Matt Craig are part of a team that discovered 30 planets around other stars. Data taken by Madelyn at the Paul P. Feder Observatory at the MSUM Regional Science Center in summer 2020 was one of many data sets used to confirm that the object […]