Planetarium Director, Schultz, presents 4 papers at Great Lakes Planetarium Association annual meeting in Toledo, OH.Schultz presented two workshops and two papers pertaining to her research in education in the planetarium, a show she developed called Solar System Explorers, and ways to adapt full dome movies to varied audiences. The workshops and papers were very well attended and will be […]
Dr. List Stewart, faculty in Psychology and School Psychology, presented information on Tier 2 Social Emotional Learning (SEL) and Behavior to a group of teachers and administrators. The afternoon presentation on Oct. 21 in Grand Rapids, Minn. was part of the Itasca Multi-District inservice day that drew educators from all over north central Minnesota.
Ananda Shastri, Department of Physics and Astronomy, gave a presentation on interactive teaching methods in upper-division physics courses to new physics faculty from around the nation. The presentation was given via the Zoom videoconferencing platform and followed by a question and answer session. The faculty online learning community (FOLC) meets regularly to discuss best practices in teaching physics. The presentation […]
Dr. David Kramar from the Department of Anthropology and Earth Sciences and six MSUM students attended the 2019 ND Geospatial Summit conference in Bismarck, ND on Oct 22-23. Dr. Kramar presented his research on using GIS and high-resolution imagery to model above-ground biomass at two Nutrient Network sites at the Regional Science Center. Geosciences undergraduate Asami Minei presented her research […]
MSUM students (Zain Afsheen, Heriberto Diaz, Sarocha Promsombat, McKenna Togstad, and Rebecca Weir) joined Economics faculty members T. J. Hansen and Gregory Stutes in attending the National Association for Business Economics (NABE) Conference in Denver, CO from October 6-8, 2019. Highlights of the conference included a presentation by Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, and multiple sessions featuring leaders from private […]