Student accepted into MIT summer program

Tadesse to present at Student Academic Conference By Danielle Rebel Greatness is often born from wild, far-fetched ideas. For Loza Tadesse, this was exactly the case. The international student from Ethiopia is studying physics and biology at MSUM. Earlier this year, she was hired in the biosciences department – not as a researcher, but to clean the fish tank. “That’s […]

Dalan and Geoarchaeology major conducted research at Poverty Point State Historic Site

Rinita Dalan, Anthropology and Earth Science, and Geoarchaeology major Rebecca Wallace traveled to the Poverty Point State Historic Site in Louisiana over Spring Break to conduct investigations into a new mound discovered at the site. The Poverty Point site, composed of a semicircular arrangement of six earthen ridges and mounds over 3,000 years in age, is the 2014 U.S. nomination […]

Student accepts summer research position at the University of Wyoming’s Department of Astronomy

Laura Herzog, a sophomore Physics and Mathematics double major, was offered and has accepted a position as a summer researcher at the University of Wyoming’s Department of Astronomy. She will be involved in a research project involving the use of the University’s 2.3 meter and 0.6 meter telescopes in imaging and analysis of the environment around other galaxies. www.uwyo.edu/physics/reu-info

The War Over Water

Student to present on water resource sharing Sophomore Jordan Pinneke is the epitome of the phrase, “so much to do, so little time.” Whether it is with her secretarial position for the Sustainable Campus Initiative Committee, her job as an administrative assistant at the Office of Campus Sustainability, working as an RA on campus, or as a desk attendant at […]