College of Social and Natural Sciences lecture tonight

Professor Daniel McEwen, Biosciences, will give a lecture Tuesday, April 2 at 7 p.m. in Science Lab 118. The title of the lecture is “Food Webs, Science, and the Global Climate Change Controversy: Perspectives from an Arctic Biologist.” The lecture is part of the College of Social and Natural Sciences lecture series. The lectures focus on current issues in the […]

Writing about socio-scientific issues

Meena Balgopal (formerly Biosciences Dept. and currently at Colorado State University) and Alison Wallace, Biosciences, have published a featured article “Writing about socio-scientific issues: a “write” way to improve decision-making skills” in the March issue of “The American Biology Teacher” journal of the National Association of Biology Teachers.

Paul Sando authors chapter

Dr. Paul Sando, Anthropology and Earth Science, has authored a chapter of the book; Beyond the Border: Tensions across the Forty-Ninth Parallel in the Great Plains and Prairies (Conway, Kyle, and Tim Pasch, Editors), now entering the final proof prior to printing at MacGill-Queen’s University Press in Canada. The chapter is titled; Water and Political Relations between the Upper Plains […]

Mary Stone presented paper at international business administration meeting

Mary Stone, School of Business, presented her paper entitled “Performance Differences Between Online and Traditional Students in Principles of Accounting” at the Midwest Business Administration Association International annual meeting in February 2013. The research provided support for Simonson et al’s (1999) Equivalency Theory by comparing the course assessment scores for the two groups of students.