MSUM students win national recognition for book cover designs

Graphic designers garner awards year after year MSUM graphic design students did it again. Three cover designs for books published by New Rivers Press were selected as winners in the 2014 American Inhouse Design Awards by Graphic Design USA. From more than 4,000 entries, just 15 percent were recognized with Award Certificates of Excellence. Students whose designs won are Rachel […]

Biology student accepted into summer program at the Marine Resources Research Institute as a Fort Johnson Summer Research Fellow

Rachel Walsh, Biology major, has received a summer research internship. She was accepted into the program at the Marine Resources Research Institute as a Fort Johnson Summer Research Fellow.  She will be working with Dr. Tanya Darden, Dr. John Robinson and a team of population geneticists to address horseshoe crab populations on the South Carolina coast.

Biosciences undergraduates and faculty published paper in Journal of Fish Biology

Biosciences undergraduates Evangeline Holley and Kaitlyn Ludwig, along with Biosciences faculty Dan McEwen and Brian Wisenden, have published a paper in the international peer-reviewed Journal of Fish Biology, based on research conducted by Evangeline and Kaitlyn and mentored by Drs. McEwen and Wisenden. The research showed that fish personality is not strictly genetically determined but also malleable through environmental influences. […]

MSUM Cancer Researchers Present at National ASBMB Meeting

Dr. Mark Wallert and eight members of his cancer research team presented their data at the American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology National Meeting April 26 – April 30, 2014.  The student presenting and their project titles include: Nick Berthelsen and Brittany Bisnett presented a poster entitled: “Mutational analysis of calcineurin B homologous protein isoform 2 (CHP2) binding to […]

Music Student Wins Prestigious Presser Award

The MSUM Department of Music, in conjunction with the Theodore Presser Foundation, has named Music Industry major Alayna Holkesvig a Presser Scholar. The Presser award is given to a student who will be a senior next year and is based upon the “merit and achievement” of the student as determined by the faculty and staff of MSUM. After completing a […]