Bachmeier headlines MN Region 5 Service Cooperative Kickoff

Art Education Program Director, Brad Bachmeier, headlined the Sourcewell Region 5 Service Cooperative Arts Professional Development day in Staples, MN on Sep. 30. Professor Bachmeier presented three professional development sessions, ranging from Creative careers and emerging opportunities for student vocations to career transitions for educators. Bachmeier also presented on utilizing Social-Emotional Learning strategies for creating engaging and relevant curricula in […]

Film production student and art alum build community in Fargo-Moorhead 

Minnesota State Moorhead alum, Amanda Frost, and current Moorhead student Alessa Herrera Grant are attempting to answer the question, “Why Fargo-Moorhead?”.  Over the past summer, Alessa participated in CampusFM’s 12-week creatorship, learning from Amanda, the CampusFM coordinator for the company Folkways, along with other guest speakers.   CampusFM’s overall goal is to keep graduates in the Fargo-Moorhead area by strengthening connections […]

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 […]