Library celebrates National Library Week April 11-17

Livingston Lord Library will celebrate National Library week with a lecture event featuring Greg Breining, Wednesday, April 14 at 4:30 p.m. in Science Lab 118. Breining will talk about his book, A Hard-Water World: Ice Fishing and Why We Do It. Refreshments will be served with a book signing to follow. Breining’s books will be available for purchase at the event. Click headline for more information.

Honors Lecture March 4

Please join us on Thursday March 4 at 7:30 p.m. in the Gaede Auditorium for a musical treat: “Painting in Sound: A look at (Abstract) Expressionism through Arnold Schoenberg’s ‘Verklaerte Nacht’ and Steve Reich’s ‘Different Trains.'” The University Honors Program and the Music Department appreciate your support.

Feb. 16 honors lecture focuses on science of optics

The MSUM Honors Program is proud to present University of Arizona Professor Charles M. Falco as the featured speaker of the 2010 Honors Program Focus Forum Tuesday, Feb. 16 at 7:30 p.m. in Science Lab 104. His talk, “The Science of Optics; The History of Art,” is free and open to the public. Falco is a nationally recognized speaker who will visit classes, meet with students and deliver talks during his MSUM visit. Click headline to read more.

Autism lecture Nov. 4 at MSUM

Travis Thompson, a well-known autism clinician, researcher and author of several books, including “Straight Talk About Autism” (2008) and “Freedom from Meltdowns: Solutions for Children with Autism” (2008), will present a free, public lecture on “Autism: Early Intervention and Brain Development” Wednesday, Nov 4 at 7 p.m. in the Minnesota State University Moorhead Science Lab 104. Click headline to read more.

Glasrud Lecture and Reading features Nick Flynn

Nick Flynn, author of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, will be presenting at 4 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 29 in ballroom section 200C in the Comstock Memorial Union. Flynn’s memoir won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award, was short-listed for France’s Prix Femina, and has been translated into 13 languages. Click the headline to read more.