“Baldwin man who sat front and center of history: Former MSUM professor tells story of New York Times military writer”

By: Ross F. Collins, North Dakota State University, INFORUM “Baldwin of the Times: Hanson W. Baldwin, a Military Journalist’s Life, 1903-1991” By Robert B. Davies, Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2011, 399 pages, $32.95. Robert Davies spent 32 years at Minnesota State University Moorhead teaching history to generations of us journalism majors who most often hardly knew the difference between […]

Film Grads win big at Minneapolis Film Festival

MSUM Graduates won big at the Wizard World Film Festival in Minneapolis, May 1-3. Andrew Neill, Marcus Mann and Eric Carlson (2010 Graduates) and their Two Jackets Productions film company won the “Spirit of Comic Con” award for their short film “Meanwhile, at the Citadel of Superheroes…,” a comedy about a young woman whose superhero job interview is interrupted by […]

Making A Scene: Fargo woman illustrates modern family portraits

By: Anna G. Larson, INFORUM FARGO – Kelsey Sargent approaches family portraits with a modern mindset. The 28-year-old Minnesota State University Moorhead graduate uses her graphic design skills to create clean-lined cartoon-like portrait illustrations that incorporate elements of a family’s (or individual) life. For instance, the image she created for friends Ashley and Justin Morken, owners of downtown Fargo craft […]

MSUM grad stars in new FX miniseries, “Fargo”

Musgrave to appear at Fargo Theatre’s premiere party Tuesday By Meghan Feir Whether you enjoyed the exaggerated accents in the Coen Brothers’ 1996 movie “Fargo” or not, you can’t deny that the iconic film introduced Fargo to people around the globe. This Tuesday, April 15, the new 10-episode, TV spin-off of the same name will premiere at 9 p.m. on […]

New Essentia administrator, an MSUM graduate, arrives in middle of $60 million expansion project

By: Patrick Springer, INFORUM www.inforum.com/event/article FARGO – Timothy Sayler left Fargo-Moorhead more than 30 years ago after graduating from Minnesota State University Moorhead. Now the Wishek, N.D., native has returned as the chief operating officer of Essentia Health’s West Region. It’s a homecoming from another standpoint, inasmuch that Sayler started his career with Altru Health in Grand Forks, where he […]