The MSUM Foundation will honor six recipients for Distinguished Alumni, Young Alum, and Outstanding Service awards at Night of Distinction on Oct. 3, 2019. Join us in congratulating these outstanding examples of grit, humility and heart by registering this week. Registration closes Friday, Sept. 20, 2019. For ongoing event updates, check out www.mnstate.edu/alumni/awards/. Distinguished Alumni David Foss ’85 (computer science) is […]
MSUM student Hiroaki Tanabe joined in the international Entrepreneurship Program and Start-up Competition by European Innovation Academy in Hong Kong, China. Hiroaki and his team presented the project, “Custify,” the world’s first crowd-sourced Q&A solutions for E-Commerce businesses, and received honorable mentions. https://krisholtermann.wixsite.com/custify The Entrepreneurship Program and Start-up Competition involve a 10-day intensive training including Business Model Digitization, Prototyping, Marketing […]
Dr. Valerie Ritland, recently published a resource book for teachers, school districts, and university teacher preparation programs entitled, Transformative education; relationship based collaboration with parents and colleagues. This resource book is now available through Kendall Hunt publishers at https://he.kendallhunt.com/product/transformative-education-relationship-based-collaboration. Copies have already been sold in Canada, California, Colorado, North Dakota and Minnesota. This book was also recently adopted as a […]
The work of MSUM Physics/Sustainability/Chemistry majors Sakurako Tani, Salim Thomas, Melissa Foley, Gabe Buehler, and Abel Eshete was acknowledged in the international journal Solid State Ionics. The project seeks to understand the underlying physics of sodium ion conduction in glasses. The work has potential to improve sodium battery technology for use on an industrial scale in solar and wind farms. […]
Karen Joan Kohoutek, Library Technician at Minnesota State University Moorhead, was recently published in Dead Reckonings: A Review of Horror and Weird in the Arts. Her scholarly essay, “Meditations on the Agnostic Gothic,” was published in Dead Reckonings this past spring. Kohoutek is an independent scholar and has written a variety of essays, several regarding the craft and criticism of […]