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Sumali Pandey, Biosciences Department, has been awarded a $25,000 grant from the High Plains Intermountain Center for Agriculture Health and Safety (HICAHS), to support her research on epigenetic and transcriptomic events associated with mold exposures. Mold related exposures are frequent in a farm environment, and this research will benefit the diagnostic and therapeutic decision making process in the agricultural community. Sumali will be collaborating with undergraduate students to execute the experiments for the proposed research.

Faculty from the Department of Anthropology and Earth Science attended the 2017 Minnesota GIS and LIS Conference in Bemidji. In addition, David Kramar and Valquiria Quirino supported the MSUM student scholar, Jacob Larson. Read the rest of this entry →

Dr. David Kramar of the Department of Anthropology and Earth Science, and the Center for Geospatial Studies, and Dr. Karen Branden of the the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, and the Center for Diversity and Social Justice recently published an article entitled “A Spatially Informed Analysis of Environmental Justice: Analyzing the Effects of Gerrymandering and the Proximity of Minority Populations to U.S. Superfund Sites” in the Journal of Environmental Justice. This was a collaborative effort with faculty from Southern Oregon University (SOU), and included two student co-authors: Hayley Hilfer of MSUM, and Aaron Anderson of SOU.

Dr. Jeremy Carney presents keynote address at the 2017 Northern Plains Conference on Aging and Disability. His talk was entitled “Ethical Considerations Regarding End of Life Decision Making”and focused on how health care professionals who practice in palliative and end of life care must be prepared to face the many challenges associated with death and dying. This interactive presentation was focused on ethical dilemmas, value conflicts, and questions related to religion and the meaning of life.

Dr. Damiano Fulghesu, associate professor of the Math Department, had a research paper accepted for publication in the Michigan Math Journal. The paper, titled “The Chow ring of the stack of smooth plane cubics” was coauthored with Angelo Vistoli, professor of “Scuola Normale Superiore” in Pisa (Italy).

Twelve students and five faculty members from the Department of Anthropology and Earth Science attended the Plains Anthropological Conference in Bismarck, North Dakota from October 4-17, 2017. The following seven co-authored talks and posters were presented, encompassing research across archaeology, cultural anthropology, geoarchaeology, geology, and GIS:  Read the rest of this entry →

Each year, the Marketing Communications team develops a holiday greeting from the university to faculty, staff, students, alumni and friends of MSUM. What had once been a traditional greeting card has evolved into a short video utilizing the talents of staff and our student workers who are often studying film, marketing, ad/PR or similar academic disciplines.

This year, Marketing interns Sara Erickson (broadcast journalism), Azmi Murtaza (advertising and PR), Dillan Schmiedt (film production), Leah Schmitt (advertising and PR), and Mandi Wahl (graphic design), with help from Music faculty member Allen Carter and Entertainment Industries and Technology faculty member Ryan Jackson, are working on an ambitious greeting in production now. Read the rest of this entry →

Kyja K-Nelson, faculty of the School of Media Arts & Design, will be screening her new experimental video, Hús, in the North Portland Unknown Film Festival on Saturday, October 14. Shot in Iceland and North Dakota, Hús is a rhythmic meditation on emigration, immigration, house and home. The piece was made in collaboration with Icelandic noise artist AMFJ, who produced an original sound score for the video.  Read the rest of this entry →

Dr. Boyd Bradbury, School of Teaching and Learning, served as the visiting scholar at Belarussian National Technical University (BNTU) in Minsk, Belarus last week. Dr. Bradbury gave multiple lectures, including one entitled, A Brief Overview of Education, Demographics, Learner Management, and Instructional Approaches for non-English Speaking Students in the United States and Minnesota State University Moorhead. Continued interaction with BNTU is planned.

The Curriculum Materials Center (CMC) has received a generous donation of international books from emerita Carol Sibley. Sibley served for two years on the Outstanding International Books (OIB) award committee for the United States Board on Books for Young People (USBBY).

USBBY is a nonprofit organization devoted to building bridges of international understanding through children’s and young adult books; it serves as the U.S. national section of the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY).  Read the rest of this entry →

Pam McGee, Professional Management Department, was elected by the Association of Technology, Management, and Applied Engineering (ATMAE) board to serve a two-year term as the President of the Women In Technology Division. New members will be take office and be sworn in at the ATMAE Annual Conference, Nov. 1-3, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Bee Wisenden (Biosciences Department) published a peer-reviewed paper in the journal Clinical Anatomy entitled “Emotional response of undergraduates to cadaver dissection.” This research was based on the experiences of MSUM students enrolled in BIOL 323 Human Anatomy. Cadaver dissection evokes an emotional response that affects some students more than others, and can be a barrier to learning. In this paper, the results of experimental pedagogy are reported that showed that humanization of donors (providing information about the donor’s occupation, health history, cause of death) helps some students feel more comfortable learning course material. There are five MSUM undergraduate co-authors on this paper (Katherine Budke, Chelsea Klemetson, Tana Kurtti, Chandi Patel and Trenda Schwantz) who helped administer the survey, collate the data and present earlier versions of this research at the Andrew B. Conteh Student Academic Conference.

Film and Animation students, alumni and faculty exhibit work in the Minne Mini Film Festival. The sold-out event will take place at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 5 at the Bryant-Lake Bowl & Theatre in uptown Minneapolis.

Short films made by MSUM Film Production alumni include Hipster Zombies created by Matt Eckholm, Welcome to the Future made by Paul Eckhardt, and World’s Best Axe Murderer by Eric W. Carlson.  Read the rest of this entry →

Dr. Michael Coquyt, School of Teaching & Learning, recently earned Quality Matters Certification for his online course: ED 670 Educational Alternatives for Learning. This is Dr. Coquyt’s second course to earn QM Certification. QM reviews are a rigorous peer review process, recognized at both the state and national levels. Congratulations to Dr. Coquyt on his achievement!

The Fargo-Moorhead Visual Artists (FMVA) organization will hold it’s 14th Annual Studio Crawl this weekend from noon to 6 p.m. on both Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 7-8.  Ceramic artist and professor Brad Bachmeier at studio location #5 will be hosting painting professor Zhimin Guan at his studio for this year’s event due to a current studio relocation. Both artists will be presenting new work as well as providing artist demonstrations. Click the link for a digital brochure and map of open studios.

On 26 September 2017, Dr. Annette Kleinkauf-Morrow gave a paper entitled “Perpetua in Myth and Hagiography” at the International Conference of Cultures, Hopes and Conflicts held at the University of Salerno (Italy). She joined scholars Dr. Victor Vitanza (Clemson University), Dr. Aneilya Barnes (Coastal Carolina University), Meredith Reidel (Duke University), and Lisa Verner (University of New Orleans) in a session entitled: “From Rome to Byzantium. Late ancient and medieval Mediterranean.”

Dr. Lisa Stewart, School Psychology, provided a half day inservice to all Crookston School staff and administrators during a District Professional Development Day. The Topic of the inservice was “Child Find and Prereferral Interventions: Built on a Solid Foundation the Intervention Doth Stand (otherwise it probably falls apart).” The interactive inservice provided an opportunity to discuss a variety of academic and behavioral intervention strategies, both class-wide and individual, and progress monitoring tools that could be used to document and make decisions about intervention effectiveness.

The Curriculum Materials Center (CMC) has received a generous donation of international books from emerita, Carol Sibley. Sibley served for two years on the Outstanding International Books (OIB) award committee for the United States Board on Books for Young People (USBBY).

USBBY is a nonprofit organization devoted to building bridges of international understanding through children’s and young adult books; it serves as the U.S. national section of the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY).  Read the rest of this entry →

Dr. Olaniyi Iyiola, Mathematics Department, published a paper titled: “A real distinct poles rational approximation of generalized Mittag-Leffler functions and their inverses: Applications to fractional calculus,” in the Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, co-authored with Emmanuel Asante-Asamani from Drake University and Bruce Wade from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Dr. Wooyang Kim, Assistant Professor of Marketing in the Paseka School of Business, and Drew Sannes, MBA Student and Research Assistant, received the award for the best paper in the sports marketing track at the Atlantic Marketing Association Conference 2017, Williamsburg, Va. The article title is “Sports Teams’ Well-Being: An Integrative Perspective of the Role of Conflict and Emotional Intelligence on Trust and Happiness” and conceptualizes a theory-based hypothetical model to examine the interactant antecedent effects on the resultant outcome of college athletes’ happiness and the mediating role of trust.  Read the rest of this entry →