Council for Undergraduate Research news

CUR membership is free for MSUM faculty. Read about these stories and find resources and support for mentoring undergraduate research at www.CUR.org. CUR Psychology Division Seeks Nominations, Mid-Career Mentoring Award Apply by Oct 1 for CUR’s Institute: Creative Inquiry in the Arts & Humanities Oct 1 Deadline for CUR Institute: Initiating and Sustaining Undergraduate Research Programs CUR Welcomes New Members […]

Student work acknowledged in international journal

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. […]

Introducing IRBNet

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 participating in classroom-based undergraduate research project

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 […]