Student Bianca Milz receives $15,000 counseling fellowship

The NBCC Foundation, an affiliate of the National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC), recently selected Bianca Maria Milz, a graduate student at Minnesota State University Moorhead (MSUM), for the NBCC Minority Fellowship Program-Addictions Counselors (MFP-AC). As an NBCC MFP-AC Fellow, Milz will receive $15,000 and training to support her education and facilitate her addictions counseling service to underserved minority populations. A native […]

Tanabe joins international entrepreneurship program, start-up competition

MSUM student Hiroaki Tanabe joined in the international Entrepreneurship Program and Start-up Competition by European Innovation Academy in Hong Kong, China. Hiroaki and his team presented the project, “Custify,” the world’s first crowd-sourced Q&A solutions for E-Commerce businesses, and received honorable mentions. https://krisholtermann.wixsite.com/custify The Entrepreneurship Program and Start-up Competition involve a 10-day intensive training including Business Model Digitization, Prototyping, Marketing […]

Student work acknowledged in international journal

The work of MSUM Physics/Sustainability/Chemistry majors Sakurako Tani, Salim Thomas, Melissa Foley, Gabe Buehler, and Abel Eshete was acknowledged in the international journal Solid State Ionics. The project seeks to understand the underlying physics of sodium ion conduction in glasses. The work has potential to improve sodium battery technology for use on an industrial scale in solar and wind farms. […]

Leach presents at national symposium

This summer, sophomore MSUM Biochemistry and Biotechnology major Kelsey Leach was invited to give an oral presentation at the national SEA-PHAGES Annual Symposium organized by Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). Her presentation was entitled “Isolation and Characterization of Microbacterium phage Etta and Discovery of Bacteriophage Vers using a Novel Antarctic Cryobacterium Isolate.” This research project began as part of a […]

Two marketing students’ research accepted in Atlantic Marketing Association Conference

Two marketing major students – Muhammad Azam Awan (senior) and Nanami Ohtsuka (senior) – have been accepted to present their market research paper at the 44th Atlantic Marketing Association Conference in Asheville, NC, Sept. 25-28. Also, this study will be published in the conference proceedings. The title of their study is, “The Curiosity of Class Learning from a Hands-on Project […]