Wisenden invited by Iowa State University to give departmental seminar

Brian Wisenden, professor of Biosciences, gave an invited Departmental Seminar at the Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management (NREM) at Iowa State University on Feb. 14, 2014. The title of his talk was “Scents of Danger: Chemically-mediated risk assessment against predators large and small,” which featured research by MSUM undergraduates. web.mnstate.edu/wisenden

Posters in the Rotunda

Students who have completed faculty-mentored projects: If you would like to be part of a group of MSUM students going to St. Paul on Feb. 26 to present to your local legislators on undergraduate research and creative activity, please open the attachment and apply ASAP (extended deadline, Nov. 15). Posters-in-the-Rotunda

Biosciences and Physics faculty co-publish study with students

Sara Schultz, Physics and Astronomy, and Brian Wisenden, Biosciences, and two MSUM students, Randy Sutrisno and Phil Schotte, had a paper accepted for publication in the peer-reviewed journal Ecology of Freshwater Fish. The title of their paper is “Fin-flicking behaviour as a means of cryptic olfactory sampling under threat of predation.” This is Sutrisno’s “Fish Whisperer” third peer-reviewed paper as […]

Economics students among the best in the nation

Since 2002, twenty-six economics majors have presented papers at the Issues in Political Economy (IPE) undergraduate research sessions hosted by the Eastern Economics Association. The IPE sessions attract students from all over the country and from institutions including the likes of MIT, Smith College, Colby College, and the College of Wooster, to name a few. Professor Stephen DeLoach, co-head of […]