National Student Exchange Spotlight: Wild Rockies Field Institute

Are you passionate about restoring ecosystems and learning how land can be actively healed through science, policy, and community action? The Wild Rockies Field Institute (WRFI) invites you to join their Restoration Ecology course—a unique, immersive academic experience that takes your environmental education out into the field. On this 3-week summer course, you’ll earn upper-division college credit (through the University of Montana) while backpacking through stunning ecosystems of the Northern […]

Professor and alum Yahya Frederickson publishes new poetry collection set in Morocco

A new collection of poems by MSUM English professor and alum (’85) Yahya Frederickson is being published. The new chapbook, titled Khumásiyát: Poems from the Moroccan Desert, is a collection of poems inspired by the Imazighen (“Berber”) people and the Saharan landscape they inhabit. Frederickson was inspired to compose the collection while on sabbatical in 2023, during which he spent some […]

Dr. Kenyon Williams gets Highland 5th graders excited about percussion

April 28, 2025, KROX On Thursday, April 24, fifth grade students from Highland put on a  drum performance at Crookston High School with the help of a grant secured by Highland’s music teacher, Kristine Dickson.  The grant brought in a resident musician for a month, Dr. Kenyon Williams, the Director of Percussion at Minnesota State Moorhead. “He has traveled around the world and […]