Economic Society attends 2020 Minnesota Economic Association Conference

Economic Society members, Alexander Peterson and Bradon Schlaefer, and Co-Advisor Dr. T. J. Hansen attended the Minnesota Economic Association Conference virtually on October 23, 2020. Dr. Lisa D. Cook, Michigan State University, delivered the keynote address, “Violence and Economic Activity: Evidence from African American Patents, 1870-1940,” and highlighted ongoing implications on economic growth and standards of living in the U.S.

John Koopmann talk for MSUM music students

Monday, Nov. 2 | 4:30 p.m. | Hosted via Zoom John Koopmann, Principal Trumpet of the Minnesota Opera and a former middle and high school educator, will speak via Zoom to MSUM music students about performing, educating, and live concerts. The discussion, hosted by MSUM’s chapter of the National Association for Music Educators (NAfME) takes place Monday, Nov. 2, at […]

MSUM Archives digitizes student newspapers from 1900 onward

The MSUM Archives continues to work hard on its long term goal to make all student newspapers from 1900 to the present available online. All student newspapers from 1900 to 1953 are now available in RED: a Repository of Digital Collections. The following student newspapers have been digitized and made full text searchable: The Normal Red Letter (1900-1906): https://red.mnstate.edu/normalredletter The […]

National LGBT Center Awareness Day

October 19 is National LGBT Center Awareness Day! Started in 1994, this day celebrates the important services that LGBT centers provide in communities and on college campuses around the U.S., from education to intervention to community building. MSUM’s own Rainbow Dragon Center officially opened on February 9, 2009, documented in an article from the February 26, 2009 issue of The […]