Congratulations: Dean’s List Fall 2022
We love celebrating student accomplishments! Congratulations to the students named to the Spring 2022 Dean’s List in their respective colleges. View Dean’s List We are full of #DragonPride!
Five MSUM students nominated for Goldwater Scholarship
MSUM is nominating five students for this year’s Goldwater Scholarship Program: Congratulations to Alex Niemi (Physics/Engineering), Judah Nava (Computer Science), Gabrielle Ruiz (Sustainability), Bridgett Grosz (Anthropology & Earth Science) and Dennis Maina (Biochemistry/Biotechnology). The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship Program is a nationally recognized and prestigious program designed to provide support to highly qualified students who are planning on pursuing careers […]
Student submits data to NASA project
Physics and Astronomy student Emily Watson submitted measurements of an exoplanet, a planet around a star far from Earth, to NASA’s TESS mission as part of its ground-based follow-up observers program. Emily took the data using MSUM’s Paul P. Feder Observatory at the MSUM Regional Science Center, operating the observatory remotely over Thanksgiving break. She observed the star dimming briefly […]
Physics and Astronomy students present research at national meeting
Department of Physics and Astronomy students Mara DeRung, Tanner Weyer, and Emily Watson presented an electronic poster at the 111th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Variable Star Observers. They presented the work they did this past summer automating MSUM’s Paul P. Feder Observatory and observing exoplanets and variable stars. The students are shown below with AAVSO Executive Director […]
Acceptance into MN Disability Advocacy Training
Selected from a pool of statewide applicants, criminal justice/political science/pre-law student Amanda Schermerhorn has been accepted into the eight-month Minnesota Partners in Policymaking® leadership training. Participants include adults with disabilities and parents raising children with developmental disabilities. Schermerhorn is the mother to four children. Her youngest child, Richard, has autism. He is nonverbal and cognitively delayed. He requires constant supervision […]