MSUM hosted undergraduate research meeting

MSUM was host to the 7th Annual Undergraduate Research in the Molecular Sciences (URMS) meeting October 28-29, 2011. Students and faculty from as far away as Minot State University, South Dakota State University and Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota (Winona) enjoyed two days of stimulating scientific discussions and debate. The 110+ participants took part in oral and poster presentations of […]

ACS student chapter receives honorable mention

The American Chemical Society Student Chapter at MSUM has received an Honorable Mention for its activities conducted during the 2010-2011 academic year. The club is involved in campus and community outreach and service projects including volunteering at the Dorothy Day House and providing drop-in tutoring for students in freshman- and sophomore-level chemistry courses.  The club also organizes student participation in […]

MSUM students participate in 48-hour film competition

After 48 hours of writing, shooting, editing and delivering a short film, a team of MSUM film students won best picture at the Cinethusiasts 48-Hour Film Competition held on MSUM’s campus last weekend. Friday at 7 p.m. teams across the country were given a character and occupation, prop, line of dialogue and a genre. “We had to have a detective/cop […]

BCBT students and alumni published in biochemistry journal

MSUM Biochemistry and Biotechnology students and graduates are published in the Journal of Cellular Biochemistry. The article, entitled “α1 –Adrenergic receptor-induced cytoskeletal organization and cell motility in CCL39 fibroblasts requires phospholipase D,” appears in the October issue of the journal. Authors that participated in the research as MSUM undergraduates included Andy McCoy, Justin Voog, Jennifer Taves-Patterson, Nicole Korpi-Steiner, and Tony […]