MSUM alumni Jake Pundsack has been awarded the 2024 Minnesota Science Teaching Award in his third year as a high school science teacher in Melrose, MN. He is the shortest-tenured teacher to receive the award in its history. Jake credits Minnesota State University Moorhead’s classes and professors with his success after college. “It was the hands-on experience, and great examples […]
Did you know that male and female systems respond differently to the same virus? That’s part of biology student Hadiya Farrahmand’s research at MSU Moorhead. At a national gathering of over 6,000 undergraduate and graduate science students – the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minoritized Scientists (ABRCMS), Hadiya won an award from the Biomedical Research Conference for Minoritized Scientists […]
Did you know that a new tiki cocktail lounge recently opened in Moorhead on Center Ave? Alumni Shannon and Adam Wiedman wanted to create a place that was unique, inviting and modern. Both alumni started their careers as graphic designers, with Adam focusing on traditional advertising and branding, and Shannon taking on more analytical and technical roles. Their combined skills […]
On Friday, November 1, Richard Lahti (Chemistry & Biochemistry) and MSUM Life Science Education Alumnus Jake Pundsack co-presented “Go on a date with data! Bringing out the relationship between computational modeling and data science in a secondary biology classroom” at the Minnesota Science Teacher Association Conference on Science Education. During the opening ceremony, Jake was also named the secondary […]
Sara Schultz, PhD, director of the planetarium presented four talks/workshops during the recent Great Lakes Planetarium Assn (GLPA) annual conference. She presented with two of her students, Cassie Ishaug and Emily Watson. Schultz, as the elected Inclusion & Outreach officer for GLPA, presented on a program to encourage pre-career students interested in the planetarium field as a potential career path […]