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March 31, 2025

Carter Headrick, MSUM Foundation Dragon Impact Awardee, tells stories that influence national public health policy

Carter Headrick ’93 is a 2025 Dragon Impact Award recipient for his success in using compelling stories to shape public health policy nationwide. A political science graduate, Headrick began as a radio producer and political campaign strategist before shifting to issue advocacy. He helped secure funding for Seattle’s mass transit, banned tobacco billboards in King County, WA, and influenced cigarette […]

College of Business, Analytics & Communication
March 26, 2025

Art Alumni featured Curatorial Staff at Plains Art Museum

Two School of Art Alumni Delia Touche, Rachel Herzog, and MSUM’s former Gallery Director, Danielle Gravon, were featured in the March 24 Fargo Forum article “Meet the all-female curatorial team at Plains Art Museum”. The article highlights the team’s approach to advocating for women’s voices in the arts. Specifically Curator of Indigenous Programming, Delia Touche’s success in paving a way […]

Alumni
March 20, 2025

MSUM Music Alumnus named ND “Music Educator of the Year”

Mrs. Nicole Bernier (class of 2007) has been named the North Dakota Music Educator of the Year by the North Dakota Music Educators Association (NDMEA).  Currently teaching at Fort Lincoln Elementary School in Mandan, ND, Bernier was awarded the honor for her excellence in student performance, musical achievement, and commitment to music education and the arts. She employs the Kodály […]

Employee News
January 29, 2025

MSUM alum fastest to ever earn MN science teacher of the year

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 […]

College of Science, Health & the Environment
December 17, 2024

Biology student receives national award for immunology research

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 […]

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