Monday, September 28, 2015 | 5:00 – 5:30 p.m. | Langseth Hall Atrium Come celebrate Minnesota State University Moorhead’s recently awarded National Science Foundation Robert Noyce Scholarship grant of nearly $1.2 million for the project, “Preparing STEM Teachers to Successfully Navigate the Urban to Rural Gradient in Outstate Minnesota.” We will celebrate with words, food and cool science demos the […]
Brian Smith and Linda Houts-Smith offered a teacher training course at the University of Guadalajara in Mexico from June 13th-27th at the invitation of Nadia Paola Mireles Torres, M.A, the General Coordinator for Cooperation and Internationalization. The course was delivered to 50 professors from the different University Centers that comprise the UG network. The purpose of this course was to […]
Linda Houts-Smith has been invited to serve on the MinneTESOL Journal Editorial Board and is beginning her second year of service. The spring edition is available online at minnetesoljournal.org/journal/spring-2014 and features a photo from the 2009 TEAMWork Symposium held at MSUM. The Spring 2014 invited journal contributor Kate Kinsella, author of Cutting to the Common Core: Analyzing Informational Text, was […]
Linda Houts-Smith, Languages and Cultures, gave a two-part presentation entitled “More Often Than Most: The Frequency Rates of Next Speaker Selection Practices in Conversation” at the 2013 Hawaii University International Conference for Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences held Jan. 6-8. Her presentations were two facets of a larger study; one presentation was about frequency rates of next speaker selection practices […]
A two-year $262,000 grant was recently awarded from the National Science Foundation’s Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program to co-PIs Tim Harms (Mathematics) and Alison Wallace (Biosciences). Senior personnel include: Linda Houts-Smith (Languages and Cultures), Richard Lahti (Chemistry; Physics and Astronomy), Steve Lindaas (Physics and Astronomy), and Teresa Shume (School of Teaching and Learning).