Dr. Renee Harmon, assistant professor in Educational Leadership is a contributing author in the recent publication “New directions in earth system governance research,” published in Earth System Governance. The Earth System Governance project is a global research alliance that explores novel, effective governance mechanisms to cope with the current transitions in the biogeochemical systems of the planet. A decade after […]
The St. Kilda Film Festival recently screened Hús, an experimental film by Kyja Kristjansson-Nelson (School of Media Arts & Design). The St. Kilda Film Festival takes place annually in June in the City of Port Phillip, Australia, and is accredited by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Hús is a meditation on emigration and immigration, and features a […]
Erin Gillett, School of Teaching and Learning, along with colleagues Susan Ellingson and Teri Langlie, faculty in the Education Department at Concordia College, presented a session at the 2019 Literacy Conference in Moorhead on June 20. Their presentation, “What is Your Contingency Plan? Effective Scaffolding During Guided Reading,” examined how to provide targeted prompts with readers to support their use […]
Pam Werre, Curriculum Materials Center librarian, and Carol Sibley, Library Professor Emerita, presented at the Northern Lights Library Network “Better Together” conference on June 6, 2019. Werre and Sibley presented findings from their research on Vietnamese and Hmong juvenile refugee fiction published since the end of the Vietnam War. They also presented on the importance of diversity in children’s book […]
Dr. David Kramar from Geosciences was recently invited to collaborate on a bald eagle telemetry and banding project in Iowa with researchers from Conservation Science Global and the USFWS out of the Moline, IL office. The project required accessing the eagle nests and capturing the juvenile eagles so they could be outfitted with high-resolution GSM-GPS telemetry units. The purpose of […]