Optimism & Opportunity: How higher education rose to the challenges of 2020

A story about how higher education met the challenges of the pandemic and are taking lessons learned into the future is featured in the 2020 Impact magazine. The “Optimism and Opportunity” story includes interviews with university officials, including MSUM’s Vice President of Finance and Administration Jean Hollaar. The magazine can be viewed online as well as downloaded as a pdf. The […]

MSUM Faculty and Students Conduct Research at the Poverty Point World Heritage Site

Last week a group of students and faculty from Minnesota State University Moorhead traveled to the Poverty Point World Heritage Site in northeast Louisiana. The main focus of their efforts was to examine places of interest identified during a 3D Ground Penetrating Radar survey of the site in November 2019. This project, led by Rinita Dalan (Anthropology and Earth Science), […]

Fitting, Harms present at virtual Minnesota Council of Teachers of Mathematics Conference

Tammy Fitting, Director of the Math Learning Center, and Tim Harms, Professor of Mathematics Education presented at the virtual Minnesota Council of Teachers of Mathematics Conference held April 16 and 17.  Tammy Fitting presented a session titled “Little Things Can Make a Difference” that connected how findings in neuroscience can be addressed in classroom instructional practices. Tim Harms presented a […]

Dr. Quanbeck leads Workshop with MSUM Alumnus on Floyd Protest Coverage

Dr. Aaron Quanbeck, a professor in the School of Communication and Journalism, moderated an online workshop titled “Covering Civil Unrest” as part of the 2021 Midwest Broadcast Journalists Association’s annual journalism conference. The workshop included KSTP-TV Videographer Dylan Jacobson, a 2001 graduate who majored in Mass Communications with an emphasis in Broadcast Journalism. Also included were a KSTP reporter and […]

Minnesota Innovation Grant Awardees Present at State Conference

On April 7th, Professors Alex Fogarty (School of Media Arts & Design) and Kevin Zepper (English) presented at the Minnesota Innovation Grant Virtual Conference. They were joined by Kelly Blackledge, Ranger at Tamarac National Wildlife Refuge. Their presentation to Innovation Grant attendees, outlined their 20k grant project, “Finding Refuge.” In addition to Blackledge, Fogarty, and Zepper, the grant committee members […]