David Kupferman, School of Teaching and Learning, has recently published the book Childhood, Science Fiction, and Pedagogy: Children Ex Machina, with Springer. Kupferman served as the lead editor of the collected volume (along with his colleague Andrew Gibbons from Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand), which includes 12 chapters by contributors from around the world. The book considers the […]
MSUM students are now participating in a unique Classroom-Based Undergraduate Research (CURE) project, which aims to tackle antibiotic resistance. “SEA-PHAGES (Science Education Alliance-Phage Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary Science) is a two-semester, discovery-based undergraduate research course that begins with simple digging in the soil to find new viruses, but progresses through a variety of microbiology techniques and eventually to complex […]
“Prairie Post Office: Enlarging the Common Life in Rural North Dakota” (2017, NDSU Press), by authors Steven Bolduc (Economics) and Amy Phillips (formerly Social Work), and photographer Wayne Gudmundson (Communications, retired), was selected by the Notable Documents Panel of the Government Documents Roundtable (GODORT), a division of the American Library Association, as “one of this year’s outstanding state and local […]
This summer, sophomore MSUM Biochemistry and Biotechnology major Kelsey Leach was invited to give an oral presentation at the national SEA-PHAGES Annual Symposium organized by Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). Her presentation was entitled “Isolation and Characterization of Microbacterium phage Etta and Discovery of Bacteriophage Vers using a Novel Antarctic Cryobacterium Isolate.” This research project began as part of a […]
Dr. Atif Osmani (faculty in the College of Business & Innovation) had an article, “Maximizing Profits in an Ethanol Supply Chain with Hedging Strategies,” accepted for publication in the August 2019 issue of the Journal of Supply Chain and Operations Management. The research work deals with recent advances in hedging strategies for biofuel supply chains. Read the article