Physics graduate plays a key role in Appareo’s emergency ventilator project

Damith Rozairo, a 2009 MSUM physics graduate, played an essential role in Appareo’s emergency ventilator project to provide critical resources during the Coronavirus pandemic. Once complete, they expect to deliver 2,000 ventilators to the state of North Dakota and 1,000 to South Dakota.  “When this project started, everyone in the company who is involved offered to work late nights to […]

MSUM Alumnus’ Choir Spreads Hope Through Song

By Meghan Feir Walker As a choral director for the Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) on Sigonella Naval Air Station outside of Catania, Sicily, Italy, Antone Leustek ’02 (music education) has a unique opportunity in his field of music education. His students are comprised of seventh through 12th graders, a mixture of children from American military and NATO families. Since the coronavirus took the […]

Alumnus Bob Indihar named executive director of MREA

MSUM alumnus Bob Indihar has been named the next executive director to lead the Minnesota Rural Education Association (MREA). He holds a specialist degree and a master’s in educational administration from MSUM and a superintendent degree from St. Mary’s University. Indihar started his career teaching math and science at the secondary level in Detroit Lakes. He became the principal of Moose […]

Art Education community outreach featured in Area Woman Magazine

The April/May issue of AW Magazine’s “Art That Moves” article features an interactive hallway mural project recently completed at Deer Creek Elementary School in West Fargo. The project features a collaboration with Lindsay Opp, the school’s Art teacher (and MSUM alumna) working with 12 current School of Art students and faculty who volunteered over 100 hours to make the project […]