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Announcing students from the College of Education & Human Services named to the Minnesota State University Moorhead dean’s list in recognition of academic achievement spring semester 2021.

Announcing students from the College of Business, Analytics & Communication named to the Minnesota State University Moorhead dean’s list in recognition of academic achievement spring semester 2021.

Minnesota's science teacher of the year Jake Pundsack is the shortest-tenured teacher to receive the prestigious award.

The First Congregational Church of Detroit Lakes, Minnesota was organized in 1872 by the Reverend Hiram N. Gates. Gates was the minister of the Congregational Church in Connecticut when he received a commission from the American Home Missionary Society to establish Congregational churches in settlements along the newly constructed line of the Northern Pacific Railroad in northwestern Minnesota. Before leaving the East, Gates met Colonel George H. Johnston, who, as president of the New England Military and Naval Bureau of Migration, was in the process of establishing a colony at Detroit on lands purchased from the Northern Pacific Railroad Company (the name of the town that was to Detroit Lakes in 1926). Many of the original settlers of the “New England Colony” were Congregationalists, and Johnston convinced Gates to settle there.

Title IX of the Educational Amendments prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex. This policy supplements the Minnesota State System lB.1 Nondiscrimination in Education and Employment Opportunity Policy and the MSUM Sexual Violence Policy, including sexual assault, and applies to all members the Athletics department, both employees and student-athletes. Title IX provides that: No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.

The Moorhead Foundation is excited to announce the current Minnesota State Moorhead Foundation Award honorees.

The heart of the RRVSGA collection is the transcripts of interviews conducted with several dozen individuals involved in the sugarbeet industry in the Valley. Most of those interviewed are members of the RRVSGA, although former employees of the old American Crystal Company, some migrant laborers, and a few elected officials were also interviewed. Each interview transcription is fully described in the inventory. In addition to the transcript, a tape of the interview is also available.

Laura Odgren earns her Specialist in School Psychology in a creative partnership through MSUM and schools.

Ken Jaeger, an ’83 community health graduate and 2014 distinguished alumnus, was inspired to help the poor at a young age. His mother, who grew up in El Paso, Texas, took Jaeger over the border to Juarez, Mexico, where poverty was rampant.

Alumna and Hope Blooms founder Kelly Krenzel ('08) is a recipient of this year's MSUM Foundation Dragon Impact Award.