K-Nelson screened at Altered Esthetics and the Duluth Superior Film Festival 

Kyja Kristjansson-Nelson (School of Media Arts & Design) presented her short experimental film, Hús, at the Duluth Superior Film Festival at 1 p.m. Saturday, June 2, as part of a Regional Shorts program. K-Nelson then traveled to Minneapolis to present her film at the Altered Esthetics Film Festival showcase for Creative Vision Award nominees. The Altered Esthetics curators nominated 6 […]

Geoscience professors attend Drone Focus Conference

Geoscience professors Karl Leonard and David Kramar attended the 2018 Drone Focus Conference in Fargo, ND on May 30 and 31. The conference included talks by government officials emphasizing the new opportunities for UAS technologies on the northern plains, and workshops on the applications of unmanned aviation systems. Kramar and Leonard are currently conducting student-directed research using UAS at the […]

Comstock-Gág Read Aloud Book Awards Committee members needed 

The Livingston Lord Library’s Curriculum Materials Center is looking for community members who are interested in serving on our 2018-2019 Comstock-Gág Read Aloud Book Awards Committee. Committee work includes screening new picture books, attending two committee meetings, and in April ultimately selecting the best read aloud picture books for ages toddler-8 and ages 9-12 published in the United States in […]

MSUM Early Education Center earns national NAEYC re-accreditation

Program recognized among the top in the nation by earning accreditation NAEYC Accreditation is a rigorous and transformative quality-improvement system that uses a set of 10 research-based standards to collaborate with early education programs to recognize and drive quality-improvement in high-quality early learning environments. To earn NAEYC Accreditation, MSUM Early Education Center went through an extensive self-study and quality-improvement process, […]

D2L Brightspace unavailable June 1-2

D2L Brightspace will be unavailable starting Friday, June 1 at 8 p.m. through Saturday, June 2 at 12 p.m. (noon). This downtime is required to move to D2L’s cloud hosted services and update to the latest version. Additional information about the update is located on the Office of Online & Extended Learning blog.