By: Marino Eccher, INFORUM FARGO – When Kara Gravley-Stack started working at North Dakota State University, advertising the school’s gay and lesbian support services was a surefire way to draw criticism from anti-gay quarters. “I’d get messages coming to me saying, ‘I can’t believe you’re supporting this,’ ” said Gravley-Stack, NDSU’s director of diversity initiative, “and other things I’d rather […]
By: Ryan Johnson, INFORUM MOORHEAD – While it was built with valid scientific goals in mind, the premise of the six-wheeled, 2,000-pound Curiosity rover and the engineering feat that landed it on Mars early Monday could strike some as more science fiction than reality. “We have landed a nuclear-powered truck on another world,” said Juan Cabanela, astronomy professor at Minnesota […]
By: Anna G. Larson, INFORUM Erhardt is finalist for Beautiful Women project Lindsay Erhardt is a July finalist for our Beautiful Women project. Watch WDAY news at 10 p.m. Sunday and read Monday’s SheSays section when the month’s winner is announced. Visit the “Beautiful Women” blog. If you go What: Project Jua at Fargo’s Downtown Street Fair When: Today from […]
MSUM criminal justice alum is named Minnesota Corrections Agent of the Year. By: Mike Nowatzki, INFORUM MOORHEAD – When Mike Schommer visits his “clients,” he’s not making a sales call or pitching a new product. As an intensive supervised release (ISR) agent for the Minnesota Department of Corrections. Schommer’s clientele consists of convicted murderers, rapists and other high-risk offenders who, […]
By: Ryan Johnson, INFORUM MOORHEAD – Hundreds of area youngsters are on the Minnesota State University Moorhead campus this summer, getting their hands dirty crafting clay masterpieces and diving into the science of nanotechnology. Now in its 13th year, the university’s annual summer program College for Kids aims to give 8- to 14-year-olds a chance to do something enriching and […]