Lisa Nawrot (Psychology) has been elected as a Councilor to the Psychology Division of the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR). The mission of the CUR is to support and promote high-quality undergraduate student-faculty collaborative research and scholarship. The CUR hosts an undergraduate research poster session on Capitol Hill, produces a Quarterly journal, and provides special Institutes on undergraduate research and […]
Originally published on InForum written by Grace Lyden. MOORHEAD – When Gavin Doppler was a freshman at Minnesota State University Moorhead, he thought the university’s business school was lacking in extracurricular activities. So he founded a chapter of DECA, a competitive organization for budding entrepreneurs and business leaders in high school and college. “We had an average meeting size around probably […]
More than fifty 6th graders from Kindred School District visited the wellness center this week for a field trip of exercise related activities. This is the second consecutive year they have visited. Students participated in 45 minute sessions of Rock Climbing, Yoga, an Obstacle Course designed and lead by our student personal trainers as well as had some free time […]
Adam Stocker, Biosciences, had a paper published in the peer-reviewed journal PLoS ONE titled: “Emx1 is Required for Neocortical Area Patterning.” The published findings identify a new gene that participates in specifying functional areas in the developing neocortex. The neocortex is the most recently evolved and the most iconic part of the human brain (i.e. it is the large wrinkled […]
Dr. Claudia Gates presented the contents of her presentation titled “College Students as Critical Readers: Developing New Strategies for Reading Digital Texts” at the OCTELA conference in Ohio. Teachers learned how to combine comprehension strategies with digital text to encourage critical reading in the classroom.