MSUM mass communications advertising students took first place in the District 8 American Advertising Federation’s National Student Advertising Competition held in Minneapolis…

Dr. David Tack, school of teaching and learning, presented the keynote address “The Importance of Schools in Building Stronger Community Relationships” to the tri-state meeting of regional directors…

Tanner McCarty will receive a renewable tuition waiver and assistantship valued at more than $40,000 to attend Purdue University to study natural resource economics this fall…

Yelena Mejova, a graduate of MSUM’s computer science department, will be doing a postdoc in Barcelona with the Yahoo! research lab in Barcelona as part of their web mining group…

March 24-May 21, MSUM Planetarium, Mondays at 7 p.m. and Saturday & Sunday at 2 p.m.
Four hundred years ago, Galileo fitted two small pieces of glass into a tube and pointed it to the sky. The wonders that he observed changed our view of the heavens forever. Our new fulldome projector will be used to tell Galileo’s personal story and relate the amazing discoveries made by the modern descendants of Galileo’s "Optik Tube."

June 5-8 and June 12-15, Gaede Stage, 7:30 p.m.
MSUM’s Straw Hat Players Summer Theatre opens its 49th season with Shout!, a PG-rated musical set in England in the 1960s. Shout! follows the dawning of the women’s lib movement and features music of Dusty Springfield, Petula Clark, Cilla Black and Lulu. Tickets are available online at www.mnstate.edu/strawhat, or by calling the MSUM Box Office Monday-Friday from noon to 4 p.m. at 218.477.2271.

June 2, Buffalo River State Park & Regional Science Center, 8 a.m.
The 2nd annual Buffalo River Trail Run is Saturday, June 2, 2012. MSUM’s Regional Science Center and Buffalo River State Park will host this 5K/10K run starting at 8 a.m. Online registration of $25 closes at midnight May 30. The onsite race registration fee is $30.