MSUM Biosciences research students win best undergraduate poster award

MSUM Biosciences Research Students won the “Best Undergraduate Poster Award” at the Annual Meeting of the Minnesota Chapter of The Wildlife Society held in Willmar, MN, on 18-20 February 2020.   In a long-term study (2001-2019), research students from the Biosciences Department at MSUM have live-trapped and marked over 1,000 painted turtles (Chryemys picta belli) in Clay County, Minnesota, in order […]

Walla receives 2020 Minnesota State Artist Initiative Grant

Professor Chris Walla of the School of Art received a fully funded 2020 Minnesota State Artist Initiative Grant to fund an ongoing body of text based sculpture. The Artist Initiative grant program is designed to support and assist professional Minnesota artists at various stages in their careers by encouraging artistic development, nurturing artistic creativity, and recognizing the contributions of individual […]

Drs. Hong, Yu publish Korean-language book

Dr. Chang-Seong Hong (Philosophy Department, MSUM) and Dr. Sun Kyeong Yu (Philosophy Department, MSU Mankato) co-authored a Korean-language book How Bioscience Meets Buddhism and have recently published it in Seoul Korea. Drs. Hong and Yu discussed and provided solutions for the philosophical issues of Aristotelian essentialist biology, Darwin’s evolutionary theory, and contemporary molecular biology in light of Buddhist concepts of […]

First-ever Doctoral Candidate in Educational Leadership Successfully Defends Dissertation

The Department of Leadership & Learning is pleased to announce that Andrew Burklund successfully defended his dissertation, SYNCING UP ON SATISFACTION: A MIXED METHODS STUDY EXPLORING SYNCHRONOUS ONLINE CLASSROOM LEARNING SATISFACTION IN THE CORPORATE TRAINING ENVIRONMENT, on February 11. Andrew Burklund is the first doctoral candidate to successfully complete the requirements for the Doctor of Education Degree at MSU Moorhead. […]