By Mark Merck Fargo – Lynette Burgan and Jessica Wayne offer a little bit of the Hollywood experience in Fargo. Burgan started offering film acting classes about two years ago and last year brought on Wayne, a Minnesota State University Moorhead film studies graduate, to bolster the film production classes she offers.
Angela Harvala, an alumna of Minnesota State University Moorhead, won the Milken Educator Award and $25,000 to spend however she wishes. She received a B.S. in elementary education in 2006. The Milken Educator Awards was conceived by the Milken Family Foundation to attract, retain and motivate outstanding talent to the teaching profession.
Denise Gorsline, associate vice president for academic planning at MSUM and MSUM alumni have been named nominees for the YWCA Women of the Year awards. By Forum staff FARGO – The YWCA has nominated 34 women and businesses for their outstanding achievements in 2015. The awards event will be held April 20 at the Holiday Inn here. The social hour, […]
Sara Pelissero, KARE 6:34 p.m. EST March 6, 2015 MINNEAPOLIS – If you don’t know his name by now, you will soon. Tyler Michaels’ star is rising fast and it doesn’t take long to figure out why. The 26-year-old Bloomington, Minn. native has the ability to captivate an audience from the moment he steps on stage – or more likely […]
Art alumnus (’12) credits his approach to painting instructors at MSUM. By Kris Kerzman on Mar 2, 2015 at 6:52 a.m. The people you see in Micah Koosmann’s paintings are not people as you see them in everyday life. Instead, Koosmann’s dark, richly stylized paintings portray the personalities that lie under those everyday perceptions, laying bare their complex psychologies and […]