A 160-acre prairie restoration, funded by a Minn. trust fund, is the focus of a Science Museum of Minnesota documentary. Bioscience professor Alison Wallace will be featured in a documentary created by the Science Museum of Minnesota. This documentary will focus on the prairie restoration at the Minnesota State Moorhead Regional Science Center (RSC), and is expected to be released in […]
Ecology and evolutionary biology student Patrice Delaney is helping to bring new life to MSUM by planting a pollinator garden surrounding the university’s hummingbird sculpture. The hummingbird, created and installed a few years ago by Art Professor Chris Walla and his students, sits on a gray concrete block on the lawn near the Roland Dille Center for the Arts. MSUM […]
Dr. Paula Comeau, a recent Ph.D. recipient in Natural Resources Management and Policy from NDSU and adjunct instructor at MSUM, collaborated with Alison Wallace, Biosciences Dept., and Tony Bormann, CSHE Outreach Coordinator, in addition to Drs. Christina Harris and Jack Norland at NDSU to publish a study titled “Analysis of Children’s Drawings to Gain Insight into Plant Blindness.” This article […]
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) hosted the 2019 Noyce Summit: The Role of Teacher Preparation Programs in STEM Teacher Retention in High-Need School Districts in Washington DC July 10-12. In attendance were Steve Lindaas, Physics and Astronomy, and Alison Wallace, Biosciences, co-principal investigators with Tim Harms, Mathematics, for MSUM’s Noyce […]
A merit-based Sustainability Scholarship is available to students majoring in any sustainability emphasis and are of at least sophomore status (30 credits or more). This year we expect to award scholarships of $1,000, $500, $350 and $200. Applications will be evaluated based upon the quality of the answers provided to the questions in the application form. Complete the application and […]