Two MSUM business administration majors, Thomas George, Battle Lake,
and Natalie Petersen-Menefee, Squaw Lake, are winners of this year’s L.B. Hartz
Academic Achievement Scholarships. The L.B. Hartz Foundation awards two $2,000
Academic Achievement Scholarships to business administration, finance,
management or marketing majors at MSUM for his/her senior year. The
scholarships are given to reward academic accomplishments, service to the
University and community and work experience. (Read more)
A four-year MSUM volleyball
letter-winner senior Kelci Guenther has been awarded a prestigious
National Collegiate Athletic Association Postgraduate Scholarship in
recognition of her outstanding achievements as a scholar and athlete.
NCAA scholarships are awarded to student-athletes who excel
academically and athletically and are in their final year of
intercollegiate athletics competition. The one-time grants of $7,500
each are awarded for fall sports, winter sports and spring sports. For
each sports’ season there are 29 scholarships available for men and 29
scholarships available for women throughout the entire NCAA. The
scholarships are one-time, non-renewable grants. A Biology major with
minors in Psychology and Chemistry, Guenther has maintained a 4.0 GPA
throughout her career at MSUM. A fixture at middle hitter, she became
the Dragons’ career leader with 330 block assists in four years. (
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MSUM
students had one national winner and five finalists in the Society of
Professional Journalists 2008 Mark of Excellence Awards, recognizing
collegiate work published or broadcasted during 2008. This year,
student journalists submitted more than 3,600 entries in 39 categories.
Only three other schools received more awards than MSUM, including
Arizona State University, 10; University of Maryland, 7; University of
North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 7; and MSUM with 6. National winners and
finalists were previously recognized by receiving first place in one of
the SPJ’s 12 regional competitions. Each first place regional winner
advanced to the national competition. MSUM’s national winners are
Kyle Johnson and
Christopher Flynn in the category Television News Photography for “Energy Drinks” for MSUM’s Campus News. MSUM’s national finalists are:
Nathan Matson, Lee Morris, Tyson Kuznia and
Tim Gerszewski. (
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Three
recent BFA graduates received the American Inhouse Design Award for
Excellence, sponsored by Graphic Design USA, a leading trade journal
for graphic design professionals. They received their awards for their
work with New Rivers Press (NRP), a not‐for‐profit literary publisher
and teaching press housed at MSUM. Under the supervision of NRP Design
Manager Allen Sheets, the students, Ali Eickhoff, Angi Lennington, and Stephanie Thomas,
each designed one of the press’ Fall 2008 titles, including the cover
and interior pages. Their innovative and eye‐catching designs were
selected by Graphic Design USA out of more than 4,000 entries
nationwide. The winning designs can be viewed at www.newriverspress.com
or www.gdusa.com.
Tabb Prissel and
Anthony Larson,
both students conducting research in the Anthropology/Earth Science
Department, presented results of their research at the 40th Lunar and
Planetary Science Conference, the premier international conference in
planetary science, March 23-27 in The Woodlands, Texas.The conference
brings together international specialists in petrology, geochemistry,
geophysics, geology, and astronomy to present the latest results of
research in planetary science. (
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Five MSUM bioscience and chemistry students (Andrew Haak, Daniel Rastadt, Jenny Canine, Nicole Haverland, Craig Kutz)
and faculty, (Mark Wallert, David Rodenbaugh and Joseph Provost)
presented their biochemistry and biotechnology research projects at the
2009 Federation of Experimental Biology National Meeting in New Orleans
April 17-22. The students each presented their work at the biochemistry
and physiology poster competition and at the main meeting with over
10,000 other scientists. Kutz, Haak and Canine each earned an honorable
mention award for their poster presentation. More than 140
undergraduates from research programs around the country presented
their work on topics from cancer to biofuels to biochemical
techniques.
MSUM’s broadcast
documentary class, Campus News program, and 13 individual students
collected 25 awards at the Region 6 Society of Professional Journalists
(SPJ) Mark of Excellence Awards honoring the best in student journalism
for 2008. Region 6 includes students from Minnesota, North Dakota,
South Dakota and Wisconsin. MSUM students collected 17 of the total
awards in the television category, well ahead of St. Cloud State
University (4), University of North Dakota (3) and University of
Minnesota-Twin Cities (1). In the radio category, University of
Minnesota-Twin Cities collected 6 awards while MSUM students collected
5 awards.
Five MSUM students
collected 10 Eric Sevareid Awards from the Northwest Broadcast News
Association (NBNA), and horizonlines.org, an online magazine produced
under the direction of Reggie Radniecki, assistant professor of mass
communications, received an award of merit for its Website. MSUM
collected more awards in the student market categories than any other
college, 11, ahead of University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (10) and Loras
College, (9). (
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More
than 585 students presented 320 research projects at MSUM’s 2009
Student Academic Conference in April. The purpose of the 11th annual
event is to showcase the work and talent of MSUM students through
presentations, posters, and creative works.
MSUM
students recently released Dragon Tracks XIV CD, a compilation of work
featuring the playing, recording and producing talents of MSUM music
industry majors over the last year.
MSUM garnered its
eighth and ninth Goldwater awards in eight years when
Heather Cegla, a junior from Dilworth, and Morgan Elfelt, a junior from
Andover, were among 278 students from across the nation selected to
receive a $7,500 award from the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and
Excellence in Education Foundation. Each will receive the scholarship,
which covers tuition, fees, books, room and board up to $7,500 for each
of the next two years. The were selected from a field of 1,110
mathematics, science and engineering scholars who were nominated by
faculty members from colleges and universities throughout the country. (
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Fourteen students in an MSUM broadcast documentary class were named winners for Best Student Documentary in the 2009 Fargo Film Festival
for their documentary, “The Greatest Silent Sport," which follows Bart
Smith as he hikes the North Country National Scenic Trail, running
4,600 miles from North Dakota to New York. They also took first place in television in-depth reporting
at the Region 6 Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence
Awards honoring the best in student journalism for 2008. All of the
students wrote, reported, photographed and edited material for the
project. Mass communications Professor Martin Grindeland, who is also
this year's Minnesota Professor of the Year, served as faculty
advisor.
Senior filmmaker Tyler Schwanke took home the Best Student Film award
from the Forx Film Festival in Grand Forks, N.D. His 20-minute short,
“A Day with Mom,” is about a 20-something man, who a year after his
mother dies, spends one final day with him. MSUM Film students and
faculty produced eight of the 29 films screened at the festival.
Fourteen students in an MSUM broadcast documentary class
won a second Emmy in as many years from the Upper Midwest Chapter of
the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for their
documentary titled “The Greatest Silent Sport.” All of the students
wrote, reported, photographed and edited material for the project. Last
year’s documentary class also won an Emmy for the documentary “Walk
into the Wild.”
Construction Management
students took first place in the Heavy Civil Division at the Associated
Schools of Construction 16th annual regional competition in Nebraska
City, Neb. The students and their coach also won an all-expenses paid
trip to San Diego next March to compete at the AGC national convention
and a chance to win $35,000.Thirty-one teams from 13 universities
competed in the seven-state Region IV ASC competition, in the
categories of heavy civil, commercial building and design-build.
The
2007 edition of Horizoonlines.org took first place in the Association
for Education and Mass Communications student magazine competition.
Eighteen students from Mass Communications, Graphic Communications and English
spent four months doing stories and photographs exploring affordable
housing and homelessness. The 2007 edition included 27 stories and 20
slideshows.
Art major Megan Eckman
won the top prize of $5,000 in the national Cross Fine Lines
Scholarship competition. The jury that picked the grand prize included
representatives from The Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R.
Guggenheim Museum, Danziger Projects Art Gallery, the Italian Cultural
Institute, and Cross company executives.
Lindsay Fischer, Theatre Arts,
has been accepted into the highly competitive Dell’Arte training
program. One of 20 students selected from across the world, Fischer
will begin studying with Dell’Arte this fall. Dell’Arte International
is the U.S. center for the exploration, development, training and
performance of the actor-creator. Its mission is to employ and
revitalize the traditional physical theatre forms to explore
contemporary concerns.
Four photojournalism students from Mass Communications
took nine awards in the Minnesota Press Photographers Association’s
“College Photographer of the Year” competition and two awards in the
professional “Photographer of the Year” competition for a total of 11
awards. The MSUM student winners were: Feature: 1st Place - “Snow Day” Sarah Voegele; 3rd Place - “Snowboarder” Sarah Voegele; General News: 2nd Place - “Tuba” Chris Huber; Spot News: 3rd Place - “Crash” Sarah Voegele; Sports Action: 2nd Place - “Bike” Sarah Voegele; HM - “Runner” Chris Huber; Sports Feature: 1st Place - “Weekend Grind” Penny Kelly; 2nd Place -”Football Player” Sarah Voegele; Picture Story: HM - “Northwood Tornado” Sarah Voegele; Photographer of the Year (professional category) Pictoral: HM - “Florian Assumption Church Balcony,” Tyson Frank Kuznia; Feature Picture Story: HM - “County Road Intersection” Tyson Frank Kuznia.
Kristine Knoll, Biology,
is the seventh Dragon in six years to earn a $7,500 award from the
Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation.
She was selected from a field of 1,110 scholars who were nominated by
faculty members from colleges and universities throughout the country.
Campus News
students won several Eric Sevareid Awards from the Northwest Broadcast
News Association. The Campus News program received an award of merit in
the student market television newscast category. Campus News is
currently celebrating 25 years of broadcasting on Prairie Public
Television. Individual Sevareid awards for stories broadcast on Campus
News or as interns/part-time employees at local television stations: Kyle Johnson, Spot News Reporting, “Local Legend Lost”; Timothy LaRocque, Photojournalism, “Snow-Cross”; Rebecca Gillbuena, Soft Feature, “Golfing for Ethan”; Chad Nelson, General Reporting, “Law Enforcement Training” and Photojournalism, “Twist of Fate”; Candace Thornberg, Sports Reporting, “Going the Distance”.
Film Studies
students recently produced a 30-second TV spot for the Fargo-Moorhead
Opera Company. The commercial (part of a campaign that was produced in
professor Tom Brandau’s Advanced Video Production
class) was a take-off of “The Sopranos” TV series and was used to
promote the recent “Dueling Divas” show. The Film students involved in
the production of this spot were Pat Joyner, Harry Lantto, Carson Nordgaard, Evan Guy, Maren Edvardsen, Mark Wickline, Gaib Wimmer and Dustin Solmonson.
Mass Communications student Tessie Jones
was a nominee in this year’s YWCA Women of the Year Program. The Women
of the Year event honors 28 special women whose lives, talents and
passions shape the Cass-Clay community. She is also Miss North Dakota
2008.
Mass Communication
students dominated the journalism awards competition in the Region 6
Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence Contest. Our
students won 22 awards—33 percent of the still photography awards, 36
percent of the online journalism awards, and 52 percent of the
television news awards. The University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
finished second with 16. The University of Wisconsin-Madison won 12,
and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee won 10. The broadcast
documentary class won first place for In-Depth Reporting and
Horizonlines.org won first place for Best All-Around Independent Online
Student Publication.
Jayme Job’s research, Anthropology,
on the connection between the grey tiger salamander motifs found in
burial site ceramics and the religious practices of the prehistoric
people who made them won the Student Paper Competition at the Plains
Anthropology Conference in Topeka, Kan.
Business major Kevin Knight
received a JASSO (Japan Student Services Organization) scholarship to
study one semester at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University (APU),
Beppu-shi, Oita, Japan. The scholarship is worth approximately $5,500.
His studies are a part of the university’s newest exchange partner in
Japan.
Theatre Arts major Richard Paul Klein was recognized by the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival for excellence in playwriting. Klein
was awarded a 2008 National Selection Team Fellowship to attend the
National Festival at the Kennedy Center. One of only five students
across the nation to receive a fellowship, his play, “An Old Album,”
won the regional KCACTF highest honor for a one-act play. The MSUM Theatre Arts Department is pleased to stage the world premiere of “An Old Album” this fall.
Geology/Earth Science major Avery Cota
was selected as one of six students nationwide to participate on the
Keck Geology Consortium 2008 Summer project at the Poggio Colla
Archaeology Field Site in Italy. Her research project in Vicchio, Italy
(near Florence) involved magnetic susceptibility studies. The Keck
Geology Consortium offers a year-long research experience for rising
seniors.
Film Studies
students had a stellar showing at the 2008 Fargo Film Festival. Student
award winners: “Work,” a short documentary portrait of two men (one a
farmer and the other a mechanic), which was created by
Levi Moch and
Justin Ullyott (Best Student Documentary); “Falling Up: The Darkside of Indoor Track Meets,” created by
Alex Welgraven (Best Music Video) and “Thurston” created by
Tyler Schwanke and
Mark Wickline (Honorable Mention, Student Narrative). Another film, “The Lost Road,” created by
Travis Mattick, Ben Stommes, and Ryan Sailer and funded by a filmmaking grant from the Minnesota Film & TV Board, had its World Premiere at the festival.
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View Falling Up - The Darkside of Indoor Track Meets By Alex Welgraven Here ]
Our Theatre Arts students took home some top prizes at the regional Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. Tyler Michaels and his partner, Josh Stenseth, advanced to the final round where they were awarded Best Musical Theatre Scene.
Six senior nursing students completed the seventh annual medical trip to Jalapa, Nicaragua, under the supervision of Nursing Professor Jane Bergland.
Students participated in each of the following areas: emergency room,
pediatrics, dentistry, ophthalmology and pharmacy. Care to children
with handicaps was a priority and students conducted home visits to
some of these families.
The Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Region V has chosen Joshua Stenseth
to participate in the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers
Scholarship Audition Competition for Sam Shepard’s Cowboys #2.
Math Education major Anthony Batesole
received the Bronze Star for Valor for exposing himself to enemy fire
multiple times to help his fellow soldiers during his two tours of duty
in Iraq in 2006 and 2007.
The Home
Builders Care Foundation, in affiliation with the Home Builders
Association of Fargo-Moorhead, has awarded $3,000 in scholarships to
four students: Daniel Johnson, Nolan Kriel, Andy Larson, and Casey Swenson.
