The Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU) won two awards, the Desire2EXCEL Impact award and the Desire2EXCEL Collaboration award, at the Desire2Learn’s Annual International Users Conference (Fusion 2012) in San Diego, California.
Claudia Murphy and Linda Fuselier, Women’s and Gender Studies, in collaboration with Deepa Trivedi, a student in Biology and Women’s and Gender Studies, presented conference papers at the National Women’s Studies Association meeting in Atlanta on November 12. The work, “Science Education as Activism” detailed curriculum innovations at MSUM.
4th Annual Red River Undergraduate Philosophy Conference Saturday, Nov. 19 in Comstock Memorial Union Student presentations start at 10 a.m. in CMU rooms 203, 205, and 207, and the keynote speaker–Dr. Mark Woods, University of San Diego, will speak at 1 p.m. in CMU 101. Woods (University of Colorado, Boulder, 1997, is an associate professor of Philosophy. His main areas […]
Reggie Radniecki, Mass communications, attended a two-day conference on Journalism Education and Digital Media at the University of Maryland, College Park. The conference “Journalism Interactive” brought together educators, journalists scholars and students to explore how journalism schools are meeting the challenges of the digital age. The conference included two days of workshops, training, presentations and provocative dialogues including how social […]
Sean Taylor, History, presented at a conference Oct. 29 in Dramen, Norway. His topic, “Critical thinking in the classroom, a lost art in American schools,” was presented at Contemporary Challenges in the US and the UK: The American Studies Association of Norway and British Politics Society. Taylor is in Norway this year as a Fulbright scholar, teaching American history to […]