MSUM Alumni Win Awards of Excellence

Artists Jon Offutt, Brad Bachmeier, and Steve Nowatski, all MSUM alumni, won three of the four prestigious awards presented at the College Hill Art Festival in June. The 40-year-old festival is at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, and has been named to Sunshine Artist magazine’s list of ‘100 Best Fine Arts & Design Shows’ in the United States […]

MSUM Alumni Artists Win Awards

Artists Jon Offutt, Brad Bachmeier, and Steve Nowatzki, all MSUM alumni, won three of the four prestigious awards presented at the College Hill Art Festival in June. The 40-year-old festival is at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, and has been named to Sunshine Artist magazine’s list of ‘100 Best Fine Arts & Design Shows’ in the United States […]

SoMAD film alumni featured in HPR cover story

The High Plains Reader recently featured two LA-based SoMAD Film alumni, Chris Haskell ’09 and Brent Rockswold ’06 in their cover story “The Dream Factory.” Both Chris and Brent work for trailer houses in Los Angeles, designing and editing motion picture trailers that promote some of the biggest film franchises in Hollywood including, Star Wars, Star Trek, Marvel Cinematic Universe […]

Distinguished Alumni Award Winners Announced

The MSUM Alumni Foundation will honor five recipients for Distinguished Alumni, Young Alum, and Outstanding Service awards at Night of Distinction on Oct. 4, 2018. Join us in congratulating these outstanding examples of grit, humility and heart. For ongoing event updates, check out www.mnstate.edu/alumni/awards/. Distinguished Alumni   Sherry Fieber-Beyer ’03 (physics & astronomy) Dr. Fieber-Beyer, a research assistant professor at […]

Paper by Dr. Hanson, Olson accepted for publication in Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance

Dr. Thomas Hanson and recent graduate Peter Olson (Dec. 2017; finance major) had a paper titled “Financial Literacy and Family Communication Patterns” accepted for publication in the Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance. The research was conducted as part of the Honors Apprentice program at MSUM and was presented at the Student Academic Conference. The abstract is available at this […]