Through its new Institute of Applied AI, Moorhead is reshaping the way professors teach and students learn. Dr. Julia Poplin, one of five AI Faculty Fellows, is using AI to re-create project-based assignments, increase critical thinking, and remove learning barriers. “We’re not waiting to be told how AI fits in higher education,” Julia says. “We’re building it from the inside […]
Moorhead Department of Physics and Astronomy alumna Madelyn Madsen, class of 2023, and Professor Emeritus Matt Craig are part of a team that discovered 30 planets around other stars. Data taken by Madelyn at the Paul P. Feder Observatory at the MSUM Regional Science Center in summer 2020 was one of many data sets used to confirm that the object […]
By Michael McGurran, InforumJuly 08, 2025 MOORHEAD — He’s part professor, part performer. Whether it slithers, swims or squawks, Jon Bell-Clement is all in. By day, he teaches zoology and biology classes at Minnesota State University Moorhead. But online, he’s “Jon BC” — blending his lifelong love of animals with spot-on impressions to make science anything but boring. From “SpongeBob” to” […]
Dr. David Wolff, Assistant Professor of Elementary Inclusive Education in the School of Teaching and Learning was recently published in The Advocate, the journal for the Association of Teacher Educators-Kansas. Developing Empathetic Preservice Teachers Using Literary Fiction focuses on the use of literary fiction, with protagonists living and learning with dyslexia, to develop empathy with preservice teachers in a teacher […]
Dr. Julie Knutson, Minnesota State Moorhead health education coordinator, is reshaping the way health educators teach. Dr. Knutson and Dr. Kristen Ford from Concordia College created THE FUSED Toolbox, the first centralized website offering teaching resources for K–12 health education. THE FUSED is an ever-growing project that aims to close the gap between content knowledge and practical skill application in […]