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. […]
Find interesting and helpful articles in the latest issue of the Council for Undergraduate Research. Becoming a faculty member is free and easy, just sign up at www.cur.org or contact UndergraduateResearch@mnstate.edu. CUR e-News September 2019
The IRB at MSU Moorhead is pleased to announce the adoption of the industry-leading IRBNet suite of tools, accessible via the National Research Network, bringing electronic protocol management, online submissions and many other important research oversight features to the MSU Moorhead research community. We have long recognized the need to reduce manual and paper-based procedures, streamline protocol submission and review […]
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 […]
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 […]