Rachel Hettich, Victoria Duncan, and Cody Brandt presented at the Issues in Political Economy’s 20th annual conference. Hettich studied the impact of gasoline prices on obesity rates across the U.S.; teen pregnancy rates across Minnesota counties was the topic of Duncan’s paper; and Brandt studied the economic impact of NCAA sanctions on a university’s teams.
Brian Wisenden, Biosciences, gave an invited departmental seminar at Long Island University CW Post campus in Brookville, N.Y. on Wednesday, Oct 17. The title of his talk was “Scents of Danger: Chemically-mediated antipredator responses in littoral fish communities.” The talk was well received, especially by faculty wishing to emulate the successes of the undergraduate research program in the Biosciences at […]
Kandace Creel Falcón, Women’s and Gender Studies, and Beatriz Castro, Women’s and Gender Studies minor, and President of O.L.A. student group, presented their short documentary research project “Latina/o Voices: Highlighting our Successes at MSUM” at the Minnesota Network of Latina/os in Higher Education 6th Annual Summit Saturday, Oct. 6.Three additional O.L.A. members – Yastín Beltran, Christine LaCoursiere, and Kathryn Lucero, […]
The CSNS will be having faculty from its departments speak about research opportunities. Any students interested in learning more about how to become involved in research should attend. Thursday, Oct. 4 – Science Lab 118 at 6 p.m.
Work done in the Department of Physics and Astronomy was presented at the 2012 European Materials Research Society meeting in Strasbourg, France. Physics students Pragalv Karki, Ravindra Regmi, Tom Mooney, and Andrew Larson worked with Dr. Ananda Shastri to analyze proton motion in the sodium thio-hydroxogermanate proton conductors. Understanding these materials may lead to better fuel cell performance. The results […]