Making a Scene: The power of poetry

By: Meredith Holt, INFORUM MOORHEAD – It’s been a banner year for Yahya Frederickson’s poetry. The Minnesota State University Moorhead English professor was awarded a $5,000 Lake Region Arts Council/McKnight Fellowship literary/performance grant, his collection of poetry “The Gold Shop of Ba-‘Ali” won the 2013 Idaho Prize for Poetry and was published by Lost Horse Press, and an animator friend […]

MSUM students win national recognition for book cover designs

Graphic designers garner awards year after year MSUM graphic design students did it again. Three cover designs for books published by New Rivers Press were selected as winners in the 2014 American Inhouse Design Awards by Graphic Design USA. From more than 4,000 entries, just 15 percent were recognized with Award Certificates of Excellence. Students whose designs won are Rachel […]

MSUM Professor to Present Research in Cambridge, MA

Vijay Antharam PhD from the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at MSUM will present a talk at the first annual “Metabolomics: Advances and Applications in Human Diseases” held in Cambridge, Mass. His presentation will be on “Can the gut reduce cholesterol? Merging metabolomics and genomics reveal two potential biomarkers during Clostridium difficile infection” which will be delivered on May 22, […]

MSUM’s Club Baseball team has advanced to the DII World Series in Paducah, Kentucky

MSUM’s Club Baseball team has advanced to the DII World Series in Paducah, Kentucky! After sweeping the District V tournament last weekend, The MSUM Dragon Baseball Club has punched their ticket to the NCBA DII World Series May 16-20 in Paducah Kentucky. MSUM pulled out victories against the University of Wisconsin, the University of Minnesota and Grand Valley State University. GVSU […]