Outreach & Collaboration Points of Pride

Kevin Zepper, associate professor of English at Minnesota State University Moorhead, shared his thoughts on writing poetry and all things creative with Moorhead High School creative writing students during presentations May 3. Zepper, a Moorhead High graduate, told students that he became interested in writing in second grade. “My parents read to me all the [...]

The Tri-College NEW (National Education for Women’s) Leadership Development Institute, coordinated by Dr. Deborah White, Sociology, was recently awarded a $3,000 grant from West Central Initiative. West Central Initiative is a regional community foundation that serves nine counties in west central Minnesota. The grant will be used to help fund the 2013 Institute. The Tri-College [...]

Three student speakers, Andrea Kochensparger (a senior, Anthropology), Shouvik Bhattacharya (a senior, Physics), and Iwnetim Abate (a sophomore, Physics) discussed how students can motivate and prepare for attending an academic or a professional conference. All of them participated at the Student Academic Conference at MSUM this spring, and in addition, attended a professional/academic meeting of [...]

MSUM, in collaboration with Clay County Community Transition Interagency Committee and North Dakota Region V Transition Community of Practice, held a two-day conference in the Comstock Memorial Union. The conference involved high school youth with disabilities, their educators, and parents and sought to educate participants about transitioning to life after high school. High school students [...]

Eighteen people die each day waiting for an organ, but just one organ  and tissue donor can save up to 60 lives. MSUM’s Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA) is working with two local organizations, Alexa’s Hope and LifeSource, to generate more awareness about organ and tissue donation and to in turn, hopefully get [...]

Organización Latina Americana (OLA) Student Group is excited to present the 17th Annual Unity Conference April 18-19. Please register to attend. Free for MSUM students, staff and faculty. This year’s conference will host conversations, panels, and film screening through the theme: “A People United: Immigrant Dreams of Prosperity ¡En La Lucha!.” Keynote speaker event is [...]

“The Mystery of Markets,” a workshop developed by MSUM Economic Society members (Kofi Boadu, Cody Brandt, Tori Duncan, Hannah Frink, Rachel Hettich, Jasmine Lam, Anthony Lau, Ilerioluwa Oyebanjo, Diamond Stokes, and You Wang) and faculty advisors, T. J. Hansen and Gregory Stutes, was one of 48 workshops presented at the Expanding Your Horizons Conference April [...]

Music Industry graduate Troy McFarland, ’09, released twelve tracks mastered by his former instructor, Ryan Jackson, Music Industry, in Jackson’s home recording studio. Watch his latest single, a music video titled “Alone ft Tori Quinn.”

MSUM Ethics Day noon panel is open to the public Matt VonPinnon, editor of The Forum; Birch Burdick, Cass County state’s attorney; and Paul Richard, chief legal officer, Sanford Health, are among a dozen area business leaders who will share their experiences about ethics in the workplace during Minnesota State University Moorhead’s Ethics Day Thursday, [...]

The MSUM Mathematics Department will be hosting the Tri-College Math Contest for area middle and high school students on campus over spring break. More than 2,000 students are registered for the contest from locations extending to Bismarck, Larimore, Grand Forks, Thief River Falls, Mahnomen, Wadena, Alexandria, and Breckenridge. This year’s contest problems were drawn up [...]