MSUM professors explain the biology behind monster myths

The Forum interviewed biosciences professors Ellen Brisch and Andrew Mazz Marry about monster myths. By: Cali Owings, INFORUM www.inforum.com/event/article MOORHEAD – Minnesota State University Moorhead biology professors Ellen Brisch and Andrew Mazz Marry have “vamped up” their classes for more than 10 years with a Halloween lecture that offers biological theories behind some of the most-common monster myths like vampires, […]

Kim Mollberg published in flagship accounting journal

Kim Mollberg, School of Business, had an article “Government Farm Payments Subject to SE Tax” published in the November 2013 edition of “Journal of Accountancy.” Published continuously since 1905, the “Journal of Accountancy” (with 386,000 paid subscriptions) is the flagship publication of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

Professor Hest makes contribution to book that received Outstanding Book Award

Dr. Theresa Hest contributed to a book that received the Outstanding Book Award of 2013 for the Family Communication Division of the National Communication Association. Hest was the lead author and principal investigator for the chapter, “Cover Stories as Family Communication Practice” in The Family Communication Sourcebook. The award notice reads, in part, “The books nominated this year were all […]

Biosciences and Physics faculty co-publish study with students

Sara Schultz, Physics and Astronomy, and Brian Wisenden, Biosciences, and two MSUM students, Randy Sutrisno and Phil Schotte, had a paper accepted for publication in the peer-reviewed journal Ecology of Freshwater Fish. The title of their paper is “Fin-flicking behaviour as a means of cryptic olfactory sampling under threat of predation.” This is Sutrisno’s “Fish Whisperer” third peer-reviewed paper as […]