Commercial Music and drumset performer Josiah Campos competed this past weekend in Pittsburgh, PA as a part of the national “Crash the Decks: Drummer vs DJ” competition with local DJ Anthony Peralta. After winning the Northern region competition in Fargo in September, the duo received an official invitation to compete at the national competition. Although they did not win (the […]
Dr. Sara Schultz, Planetarium Director, has been invited to do an encore presentation of her March 2025 Nerd Nite talk: Fire in the Mountains: A Dragon’s Journey Through Chile at the Annual Best Of Nerd Nite. The presentation focuses on Schultz’s 2024 trip through Chile as an Astronomy in Chile Education Ambassador Program participant. Schultz was awarded a full-ride fellowship through the […]
Nicole Larry and Sara Schultz and their student staff (Community Outreach and Planetarium) collaborated with Clued-In Events to host their ninth annual community scavenger hunt. This year’s theme was Harry Potter which partnered well the Planetarium programming “Skies Over Hogwarts”. Participants raced throughout campus to be the first to solve all 13 puzzles. Areas of campus that were highlighted included: […]
Minnesota State Moorhead senior quarterback Jack Strand has been announced as one of 16 finalists for the William V. Campbell Trophy®, the nation’s premier scholar-athlete award. Strand was named a member of the 2025 National Football Foundation (NFF) National Scholar-Athlete Class Presented by Fidelity Investments® with Strand receiving an $18,000 postgraduate scholarship. Strand becomes the first Dragon since Bart Johnson (1998) to be […]
The Department of Computer Science & Information Systems at Minnesota State Moorhead proudly announces its first-ever first-place victory at the 2025 DKC³ Collegiate Computing Competition, held October 17 in Thief River Falls, Minnesota. Hosted by Digi‑Key Electronics, the competition brought together 20 university teams, each typically composed of four students, to tackle rigorous programming and word-problem challenges. Minnesota State Moorhead entered two teams into the event consisting of […]