Points of Pride

October 15, 2025

Sara Schultz Awarded Prestigious Mentor Award by Great Lakes Planetarium Association

Dr. Sara Schultz, Planetarium Director, was recently awarded the prestigious Great Lakes Planetarium Association (GLPA) Mentor Award while attending the GLPA/WAC annual conference last week. The Mentor Award celebrates the recipient’s outstanding contributions to the development and growth of the next generation of planetarium professionals. To qualify for this award, the individual has been a current or former member of […]

College of Science, Health & the Environment

September 24, 2025

Dr. Wooyang Kim’s Research Accepted for Publication in Leading Journal

Dr. Wooyang Kim, Professor of Marketing at the Paseka School of Business (PSB), recently had a research paper placed in press for publication in the Journal of Intellectual Capital, one of the leading journals in the field of intellectual capital (H-index: 118, Scimago: Q1, ABDC: B). The theory-driven empirical study, titled “Virtual Teamwork Coordination and Performance: Integrating the Metaverse and […]

Academics

September 11, 2025

Digital Media Management Major Natalie Berg named “Miss Moorhead”

Minnesota State Moorhead student Natalie Berg, a Digital Media Management major, has been named Miss Moorhead 2026. The honor recognizes her talent, communication skills, and commitment to service, placing her among a select group of young women who represent their communities with excellence. As Miss Moorhead, Natalie will serve as a community ambassador, making appearances at local events and preparing […]

Employee News

July 31, 2025

Dr. Sara Schultz presents at national planetarium conference

Dr. Sara Schultz, director of the Planetarium, presented at the annual Live Interactive Planetarium Symposium (LIPS) held at the Fiske Planetarium at CU Boulder. The symposium is a master class in live and interactive planetarium presenting and programming. Schultz presented on the wide variety of unique programming created regularly at the MSUM Planetarium. Schultz is well-known in the planetarium field […]

Alumni

July 29, 2025

Moorhead Alumna and emeritus faculty co-discover new exoplanet

Moorhead Department of Physics and Astronomy alumna Madelyn Madsen, class of 2023, and Professor Emeritus Matt Craig are part of a team that discovered 30 planets around other stars. Data taken by Madelyn at the Paul P. Feder Observatory at the MSUM Regional Science Center in summer 2020 was one of many data sets used to confirm that the object […]