Donor Impact Dragon Stories

Having navigated adversity as a college student, Jesse Mossholder now helps students through the experience.

Biology major Paighton Volk will speak to her peers at Commencement on December 19.

Mary Rupp, a double major in criminal justice and psychology will serve as the student speaker for the upcoming commencement ceremony

Chosen among thousands of undergraduate and graduate students, biology student Hadiya Farrahmand receives an award at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minoritized Scientists (ABRCMS) for her immunology research.

Each year, the MSU Moorhead Marketing & Communications team hires inventive students to develop a fun, festive short video to share holiday greetings with the wider Dragon community.  

Shannon and Adam Wiedman decided to combine their creativity and passion to open Starbird Lounge in Moorhead, Minn., a unique neighborhood cocktail bar with a relaxed and mid-century style environment.

Elevating Early Childhood Special Education Grant, funded by the MN Office of Higher Education, provides tuition support for MSUM students pursuing their Early Childhood Special Education (ECSE) licensure.

Economics alum Jonas Baune relied on the academic motivation from and advice of his professors to apply to, and be accepted at, his law school of choice.

Judah Lind shares why he loves being a transfer student at MSUM.

From first applying to college in 2020 to registering for her last semester of classes, Angel Fuentes has approached life as a first-generation college student one step at a time. 

Joey Kramer (film studies '11) lives in two different worlds, working in the film industry and playing professional dodgeball.

For psychology alumnus Jason Nicholas, his relationships with faculty at Minnesota State University Moorhead provided him the mentorship and career guidance he desperately needed in his life, something he now gets to be a part of in others' lives.