Students devise ways to overcome barriers to providing mental health services for rural patients during SPARQ Competition

The SPARQ (Synthesizing Proposals for Ambitious Research Questions) competition is a program that charges students to think about potential solutions to challenging scientific research questions. Participating students must delve into primary literature to understand the scope of the question, then devise a hypothesis and means to address the question. Students were required to submit a brief written proposal and present […]

Demi-Lee Carlisle’s Undergraduate Economic Research Selected for Publication by Issues in Political Economy

Dragon Economics and Business Analytics 2025 graduate, Demi-Lee Carlisle, joins an elite group whose undergraduate research will be published in Issues in Political Economy in July 2026. Carlisle’s econometric analysis, “The Cost of Loadshedding on the South African Economy,”  provides an estimate of monetary losses to the South African economy from the energy management strategy of rolling blackouts. Under the faculty […]

Psychology students attend and present at Red River Psychology Conference

Psychology students attended and presented at the annual Red River Psychology Conference, held at Concordia College on Friday, April 24th. Students had the opportunity to present their original research to professors, students, and other professionals from the region. Several psychology research labs were represented at the conference. Students in attendance include:

24 Students Attend MPA Psychology Conference

24 students attended the 2026 Midwest Psychological Association’s annual Conference in Chicago, Illinois April 16-18. The trip is an annual tradition of the MSUM Psychology Club and Psi Chi International Honor Society and is coordinated by the Psychology Club officers (Hailey Chhoun, Melody Justnes, Magenta Thai, Anna Stish, and Nevaeh Davidson). Students get the opportunity to attend paper talks, symposia, […]

More Math Talks in Friday STEMinar

Join us Friday April 17 at 3pm in Library 103, when students Maxwell Sheridan, Rollin Lasseter, and Aspen Meissner will present their research. There will be refreshments in the Library porch at 2:30. Titles below. Instant Insanity: Stacking Colored Blocks by Maxwell Sheridan The Nines Property: A Mathematical Parlor Trick by Rollin Lasseter A Modernized Proof Of Jan Łukasiewicz’s Shortest […]