Fifty-three students to study abroad spring semester
MSUM students will be studying in various locations around the world during spring semester. Click the headline to find out where they’re studying.
Travel England in the Spring!
Join English Professors Alan Davis and Thom Tammaro, May 17-June 1, 2010, on a study tour of some of the most fascinating scenic, cultural, literary, and historic sites and cities in England, including London; Stonehenge; the Cotswolds; Bath; Chawton House (Jane Austen’s home and estate); Stratford-upon-Avon; York; the Lake District (Wordsworth’s Dove Cottage, Beatrix Potter’s Hill Top); Liverpool (home of The Beatles); Hay-on-Wye, Wales, (*Guardian* Literary Festival); and Oxford. Click the link to read more.
Study Abroad Updates
Regretfully, MSUM has withdrawn its membership of the International Student Exchange Program (ISEP) because of low enrollment numbers and the increasing cost of membership. However, our office will continue to assist students in participating in the program through an arrangement with NDSU, to be implemented shortly.
Oxford Prof Lectures on “Moon Men to Black Holes” Sept. 23
Dr. Allan Chapman from Oxford University’s Wadham College presents his annual public lecture on “From Moon Men to Black Holes: How 400 years of the telescope has re-shaped our sense of reality” at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 23 in Minnesota State University Moorhead’s Science Lab 104. Refreshments will follow in the SL atrium.
Fargo Student Awarded $5,000 Gilman Scholarship
Kevin Bauer, a Minnesota State University Moorhead sophomore majoring in East Asian Studies, has received a $5,000 Benjamin A. Gilman scholarship to support his study in Japan this coming academic year. The Gilman scholarship, a program of the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, is administered by the Institute of International Education, of which MSUM holds membership. The scholarship is one of 850 awarded nationally out of 1,927 applications.