Annette Morrow, History, presented a paper: “Dragons and Breastmilk: Reading Perpetua’s Passion in the 21st Century” at the 10th Annual ATINER International Conference on History: From Ancient to Modern, in Athens, Greece on July 30, 2012.
David Weinrich, MSUM’s Planetarium Director, welcomed attendees at the opening ceremony of the International Planetarium Society (IPS) meeting in Baton Rouge, on July 23. Weinrich is serving as the president of IPS, and in this role appeared on local TV and radio spots prior to the start of the conference. The conference attracted 701 attendees, representing 44 U.S. states and 44 […]
Michael McCord, English, was selected by the North Dakota Secretary of State, Al Jaeger, to serve as Senior Editor for the 2013-2015 North Dakota Blue Book. A 650-plus-page compendium of historical and cultural information, the Blue Book also provides a wealth of information about the state’s social, economic, environmental and political environment. McCord will write several sections and design the […]
Henry Chan, History, presented a paper titled “The Marvels of Cathay: Facts and Fiction in Odoric of Pordenone’s (c. 1286-1331) Relatio on Fourteenth-century China,” at the International Conference on Ancient and Medieval History at Nankai University in Tianjin, China, June 15-18. He also chaired a panel at the conference.
Brian Wisenden, Biosciences, gave the 200th presentation of his career when he delivered an invited keynote address to the Society of Experimental Biology, in Salzburg, Austria on June 30, 2012. His talk was entitled “Behavioural responses of aquatic organisms to chemical information about predation risk.” Almost all of the research presented in the talk was conducted by undergraduates.