News & Notes

MSUM Office of the President campus news, updates and media coverage.

  • Dr. Sara Schultz presents at national planetarium conference
    Dr. Sara Schultz, director of the Planetarium, presented at the annual Live Interactive Planetarium Symposium (LIPS) held at the Fiske Planetarium at CU Boulder. The symposium is a master class in live and interactive planetarium presenting and programming. Schultz presented on the wide variety of unique programming created regularly at the MSUM Planetarium.  Schultz is well-known in the planetarium field […]
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  • Moorhead Alumna and emeritus faculty co-discover new exoplanet
    Moorhead Department of Physics and Astronomy alumna Madelyn Madsen, class of 2023, and Professor Emeritus Matt Craig are part of a team that discovered 30 planets around other stars. Data taken by Madelyn at the Paul P. Feder Observatory at the MSUM Regional Science Center in summer 2020 was one of many data sets used to confirm that the object […]
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  • Nursing student crowned Miss Minnesota 2025
    Please join us in congratulating Emma Vrieze, a Nursing major and Psychology minor, on being crowned Miss Minnesota 2025! Emma represented Miss Glacial Waters in the statewide competition held June 20. She earned a $10,000 educational scholarship along with the crown. Her community service initiative, Swim With Knowledge: Water Safety, reflects her lifelong commitment to safe swimming and public education. […]
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  • Dr. Wisenden named among top researchers in his field
    Congratulations to Biosciences professor Dr. Brian Wisenden, who has been recognized as one of the world’s leading researchers in ecology and evolution by Research.com, a global academic platform. His ranking places him among top researchers from institutions around the world.
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  • Minnesota State Moorhead Athletics earns Marketing Team of the Year
    The National Association of Collegiate Marketing Administrators (NACMA) has named Minnesota State Moorhead the 2025 Marketing Team of the Year for Group III, Moorhead’s division. The NACMA Marketing Team of the Year Award was created to show the type of impact that a marketing team has, not only in the athletics department, but the campus and surrounding communities as well. […]
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