Kris Kitko to be first WGS Colloquium Speaker this fall

Kris Kitko will be the Women’s and Gender Studies Colloquium Speaker on Friday, September 14.  The event will take place in the Women’s Center (BR 154), from 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Kitko will be discussing her activist work and its relationship to her music. Kris Kitko is a singer-songwriter hailing from Bismarck. Of Kitko, the Chicago Tribune has written, “In the […]

Tammaro, Coghill are featured speakers at Emily Dickinson Museum

Thom Tammaro (MFA, English) and Sheila Coghill (English) have been invited to the Emily Dickinson Museum in Amherst, Mass., April 1-2, as the featured speakers for the kick-off of Amherst’s “Big Read” event. Tammaro and Coghill will be joined by former U.S. Poet Laureate and two-time Pulitzer Prize winning poet Richard Wilbur, and MacArthur Fellow and poet Alice Fulton, the […]

Motivational speaker Kari Krumwiede at MSUM Feb. 23

On a camping trip in 1994, Kari Krumwiede was struck by a tree and paralyzed from the waist down. The situation left her wheelchair bound, but she doesn’t let that slow her down. She will talk about how she turned her tragic experience into a positive outlook on life—Life Rolls On—at MSUM Wednesday, Feb. 23 at 7 p.m. in the […]

Russian scientist to visit, speak at MSUM Sept. 27

Dr. Igor Shemyakin will be speaking at 10:30 a.m. on Monday, September 27 in Hagen 207. His topic will be “What is Obolensk?” Obolensk was the premier biological weapons research and development institute in Russia. Shemyakin will be speaking on its current and future use. Shemyakin is the Executive Deputy Director of the State Research Center for Applied Microbiology, Obolensk, Russia. […]