Memo From Provost Blackhurst Please mark your calendars for Wednesday, Sept. 18 when this year’s award recipient, Dr. Brian Wisenden, will be honored and present his lecture “Minnow and Cichlids and Worms! Oh My!: Behavioral ecology of predator avoidance, as uncovered by undergraduate researchers” at a 7 p.m. event in SL 118. mnstate.edu/academicaffairs
Annette Morrow, History, is giving a lecture for the Tri-College History Lecture series on April 25 at 7 p.m. It will be held in CB 109 and the title is: “Searching for Perpetua: A Research Topic and Travelogue.”
Chinese pipa player Gao Hong performs Wednesday, March 20, at 8 p.m. in Fox Recital Hall in the Dille Center for the Arts on the MSUM campus. A pre-performance lecture and demonstration take place at 4:30 p.m. in the same location. A reception will follow the evening performance. Hong is considered a master of the pipa, a pear-shaped string instrument […]
Thirty students from Cinema Arts & Digital Technologies attended a lecture on adapting literature to film, given by award-winning Minnesota author, Will Weaver. The presentation, “From Fiction to Film”, took place March 4 at the Fargo Main Library and focused primarily on the adaptation of Weaver’s short story, “A Gravestone Made of Wheat” into the motion picture “Sweet Land,” which […]
Dr. Brewer will give a public lecture on “Creating the Socially Just University: A Critical Discussion of Gender, Race, and Class” Monday, Feb. 25 in King Hall 110 (Auditorium) at 7 p.m. On the following day, Dr. Brewer will be present for an informal question and answer period addressing the issues that attendees bring to the table. “Continuing the Conversation”