MSUM Alumna Receives AACSB’s Inaugural Influential Leaders Award

Border States CEO & Board Chair Tammy Miller joins 100 notable alumni from AACSB-accredited schools who are making an impact in the world through their business acumen, leadership, or entrepreneurial success. Today, AACSB International (AACSB), the global accrediting body and membership association for business schools, revealed that Tammy Miller, a Minnesota State University Moorhead graduate, has been recognized as one […]

Illustrative career: Conference for children’s book illustrators, writers provides inspiration for local artists

By MeLissa Kossick / The Arts Partnership on Sep 14, 2015 at 6:00 a.m. FARGO – Authors only tell half of the story, says illustrator Elise Parsley. “Children’s picture books are unique in that a reader wouldn’t understand the entire story by only reading the text; similarly, a reader wouldn’t understand the whole story through just the pictures,” says the […]

Brandau film continues on festival circuit

School of Media Arts & Design professor Tom Brandau’s latest film, Home Delivery, continues its run on the festival circuit. Set in Baltimore (1974) the dramatic short tells the story of two newspaper delivery boys (one white, one African-American) struggling with the racial divide between their adjacent neighborhoods. The film recently screened at the Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival, the […]

MSUM alumnus brings back Surge

Remember ’90s soda Surge? Meet the Fargo man who helped bring it back By Ryan Johnson on Sep 8, 2015 at 6:05 a.m. FARGO — Matt Winans is an insurgent of the citrus kind. The Fargo man didn’t mean to start a beverage revolution. But over the course of seven years, he helped convince Coca-Cola to bring back Surge more […]