Close to 200 Boy Scouts converged on the MSUM campus Saturday, Nov. 23 to work on merit badges. Named the “Merit Badge University” this is an event held annually at one of the three universities in the area to give scouts work on the badges that assist them in their trail toward the Eagle Rank. Merit badges represent skill or […]
The Languages and Cultures Department at MSUM hosted the 40th Annual Meeting of the Foreign Language Association of the Red River (FLARR) on Saturday, Oct. 12. Meeting organizers were Benjamin Smith from MSUM and Windy Roberts and James Wojtaszek from UofM Morris. The meeting brought together foreign language educators from 7 different universities in the region to talk about the […]
Benjamin Smith, Languages and Cultures, was invited to speak during Global Business Week at NDSU on the cultural impact of the Camino de Santiago on the economy of Spain. He spoke Nov. 14 to Pete Simonson’s class on Introduction to Marketing.
Dr. Benjamin Smith, Languages and Cultures, attended the Minnesota Manuscript Research Laboratory sponsored by the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library (HMML) at St. John’s University and the Center for Medieval Studies at the University of Minnesota from June 3-8. He spent most of the week working on a manuscript fragment from a 13th century copy of St. Isidore’s Etymologiae, a sort […]