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DSU Softball ~ Region III Tournament
5/7/2008 - 5/9/2008
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- Sioux City, IA
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DSU Baseball ~ NAIA Region III Tournament
5/7/2008 - 5/10/2008
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- TBA
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Outstanding Senior Luncheon
5/9/2008 - 11:30 AM
- Student Center
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Senior Send-Off
5/9/2008 - 4:30 PM
- Alumni & Foundation House Patio
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Book Buy Back
5/9/2008 - 9 AM - 4 PM
- Student Center 112
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Commencement
5/10/2008 - 10 AM
- Scott Gym
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Arts Roundup Meeting
5/14/2008 - 7:00 PM
- Alumni & Foundation House
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DSU Softball ~ NAIA World Series
5/16/2008 - 5/21/2008
TBA
- Decatur, AL
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DSU Baseball ~ NAIA Plains Super Regional
5/16/2008 - 5/17/2008
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DSU Track & Field ~ NAIA Outdoor National Championships
5/22/2008 - 5/24/2008
TBA
- St. Louis, MO
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Summer School Residual Registration
5/23/2008 - -1
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Memorial Day Holiday-DSU Closed
5/26/2008 - -1
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Summer Classes Begin
5/27/2008 - -1
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Last day to add a class
5/30/2008 - -1
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DSU Baseball ~ NAIA World Series
5/30/2008 - TBA
- Lewiston, ID
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| Three DSU Faculty Members Granted Emeritus Status |
Posted: 5/5/2008 |
Shanna Schoch, News Bureau Manager 5/2/2008
Dickinson State University faculty members Professor of Sociology Dr. Keith Fernsler, Professor of English Dr. Barbara Laman and Associate Professor Mathematics William Massey have been granted emeritus status. The honors were announced at the annual Faculty and Staff Service Awards ceremony on April 29. Fernsler has been with the university for 26 years, Laman for 16 and Massey for 42.
Emeriti faculty retain as an honorary title the rank of the last position held. Only tenured faculty members are eligible for emeritus status.
Candidates for emeritus status are considered for the honor on the basis of length of service to the university, significant service to the institution, state and community, and distinguished contributions to the faculty member’s academic discipline as a scholar and a teacher.
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| Centennial Challenge Grant Furthers DSU-TRNP Collaboration |
Posted: 4/30/2008 |
Shanna Schoch, News Bureau Manager 4/28/2008
Theodore Roosevelt enthusiasts and visitors to Theodore Roosevelt National Park (TRNP) in Medora, N.D., will soon have more access to the complete collection of documents about Theodore Roosevelt and his time in the North Dakota badlands, as well as other original documents related to the 26th President.
Thanks to National Park Service Centennial Challenge Initiative funding, TRNP is receiving $50,000 in funding to participate in a collaborative project with Dickinson State University (DSU), Dickinson, N.D., to digitize Roosevelt documents held at the park, and also collections from other National Park Service units dedicated to Theodore Roosevelt. DSU will match the grant funding, offering $50,000, and also will combine the data at the park with that from other institutions including the Library of Congress.
The announcement of the grant comes on the heels of last week’s unveiling of a special kiosk in the park visitor center that was installed as a result of a memorandum of understanding between the university and TRNP. The kiosk is a computer portal to the Theodore Roosevelt Center Web site which is being developed by DSU as part of DSU’s Theodore Roosevelt Initiative. Additional kiosks may also be installed at other national parks.
“The new kiosk was unveiled as part of our National Park Week celebration,” said Valerie Naylor, superintendent of Theodore Roosevelt National Park. “This project will strengthen our existing relationship with Dickinson State University and give us the opportunity to be directly involved in the digitization project that will make Theodore Roosevelt more accessible to the world.”
The TR Center opened its first kiosk in DSU’s Stoxen Library last September. The Web site is intended to make Roosevelt’s writings available to scholars, biographers, students, tourists and the world at large. In partnership with the Library of Congress, and with funding from the North Dakota legislature, DSU is working to digitize Roosevelt’s documents and to organize and interpret them on the site in a user-friendly, aesthetically pleasing manner. The site contains numerous pages devoted to different facets of Roosevelt’s life and career, including biographical information, TR’s experiences in North Dakota, Roosevelt’s documents, political cartoons and a scrapbook containing information and photographs of TR Initiative activities and North Dakota landscapes. The Web site also can be viewed from any computer with Internet access at www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org.
“Through this collaborative project, the cultural experience of tourists, naturalists, students, historians and children will be broadened,” said Theodore Roosevelt Center Project Director Clay Jenkinson. “Their experiences will be further enhanced by access to the holdings of the Library of Congress of the United States and to the holdings of Theodore Roosevelt National Park and other national parks.”
The partnership with DSU is one of two TRNP projects to receive funding from the Centennial Challenge Initiative. The other involves the 218-acre Elkhorn Ranch site within the park, which Theodore Roosevelt called “his home ranch.” Friends of Elkhorn Ranch will provide $25,000 to match an equal amount in Centennial Challenge funds. The park will enhance interpretation and resource conditions at the ranch site by installing new exhibits, developing a new brochure and other interpretive materials, and improving gates and fences.
The National Park Centennial Initiative is a 10-year program to reinvigorate America’s national parks and prepare them for a second century. The initiative includes a focus on increased funding for park operations plus a President’s Challenge: up to $100 million a year in federal funds to match $100 million a year in philanthropic donations to the National Park Service.
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| Concert Band Presents Spring Concert |
Posted: 4/25/2008 |
Shanna Schoch, News Bureau Manager 4/25/2008
The Dickinson State University Concert Band is pleased to present its annual spring concert on Sunday, May 4 at 2:30 p.m. in Dorothy Stickney Auditorium. The concert is directed by Dr. Steve Werpy and features a variety of traditional and modern compositions. The public is invited to attend this free event.
Concert selections include “Procession of Nobles” by Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov, arranged by Erik W. G. Leidzen; “Air from Suite in D” by J.S. Bach, arranged by Harold L. Walters; “Ballet Parisien” by Jacques Offenbach, arranged by Merle J. Isaac and “Prelude, Siciliano, and Rondo” by Malcolm Arnold, arranged by John P. Paynter.
Following intermission, the band will perform “Fairest of the Fair” by John Philip Sousa; “Joplin’s Ragtime Follies” by Scott Joplin, arranged by Jim Curnow; “Elegy,” an original piece by Steve Werpy and music from the film “Braveheart” by James Horner, arranged by Johnnie Vinson.
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| Art Department to Hold Annual Spring Student Show and Sale |
Posted: 4/24/2008 |
Shanna Schoch, News Bureau Manager 4/23/2008
The Dickinson State University department of art will host the annual Spring Student Show and Sale on Friday, May 2 from noon to 5 p.m. at South Campus, 1029 West Villard St., Dickinson.
A wide variety of artwork will be available for sale, including pottery, watercolors, jewelry, prints and many flower pots. Art student Theresa Larson also will be on hand to apply temporary henna tattoos.
This event is open to the public and free of charge. For more information, contact DSU Instructor of Art Robin Reynolds at 701-483-2339 on Tuesdays and Thursdays or by e-mail at robinreynolds@beu.midco.net.
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| Seventh Annual Undergraduate Research Conference to be Held at DSU |
Posted: 4/22/2008 |
Shanna Schoch, News Bureau Manager 4/18/2008
The seventh annual Undergraduate Research Conference at Dickinson State University takes place Thursday, April 24 from 4-6 p.m. in the Student Center Ballroom. The public is invited to attend this free conference.
The conference enables students who have performed collaborative research projects with university faculty members to showcase their research. They also have the opportunity to discuss their findings with conference attendees. This year, several students will give oral presentations and about two dozen will give poster presentations at the conference. The student presentations cover a wide variety of topics and disciplines.
Dr. Glenn Geher will serve as keynote speaker. Geher has more than 30 publications on multiple topics in social and personality psychology. Most recently, he developed the concept of "Mating Intelligence" which synthesizes mating-relevant constructs from evolutionary social psychology with existing research and theory on the topic of intelligence. In addition to his current empirical work on this topic, he recently co-edited a book on mating intelligence with Geoffrey Miller of the University of New Mexico.
Geher received his PhD in social psychology at the University of New Hampshire. He is currently associate professor of psychology at State University of New York (SUNY) New Paltz and director of the university’s Evolutionary Studies Program. He is also president of the NorthEastern Evolutionary Psychology Society.
At New Paltz, Glenn teaches courses in evolutionary psychology, social psychology, personality psychology, statistics and research methods. He was awarded the SUNY New Paltz Alumni Association's Distinguished Teacher Award for 2007.
Geher is also the lead guitar player for one of the only all-faculty punk-rock bands in the country: “Questionable Authorities."
The Undergraduate Research Conference and student research funding are supported by the DSU Foundation through an initiative by DSU. Increasing student involvement in faculty and academic research is one of the goals of Dickinson State University. The conference is open to the public and free of charge. Refreshments will be served.
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| TR Center Satellite Kiosk to Open at Theodore Roosevelt National Park |
Posted: 4/17/2008 |
Shanna Schoch, News Bureau Manager
A new way to learn about Theodore Roosevelt will soon be available to visitors at Theodore Roosevelt National Park (TRNP) in Medora, N.D. On Tuesday, April 22 at 10 a.m. Dickinson State University (DSU) and park officials will unveil the first Theodore Roosevelt Center satellite kiosk in the TRNP South Unit Visitor Center.
The park and DSU entered into a memorandum of understanding in late March allowing for a kiosk to be installed at the park. The kiosk is a computer portal to the Theodore Roosevelt Center Web site which is being developed by DSU as part of DSU’s Theodore Roosevelt Initiative.
“The new kiosk will be unveiled as part of our National Park Week celebration,” said Valerie Naylor, Superintendent of Theodore Roosevelt National Park. “We are very pleased to have this opportunity to provide visitors more information on Roosevelt, his experiences in Dakota Territory, and his conservation legacy. The partnership with DSU is exciting and will be extremely beneficial.”
The TR Center opened its first kiosk in DSU’s Stoxen Library last September. The Web site is intended to make Roosevelt’s writings available to scholars, biographers, students, tourists and the world at large. In partnership with the Library of Congress, and with funding from the North Dakota legislature, the intent is to digitize Roosevelt’s documents and to organize and interpret them on the site in a user-friendly, aesthetically pleasing manner. The site contains numerous pages devoted to different facets of Roosevelt’s life and career, including biographical information, TR’s experiences in North Dakota, Roosevelt’s documents, political cartoons and a scrapbook containing information and photographs of TR Initiative activities and North Dakota landscapes.
“Tourists who sit down at a kiosk in the interpretive center will have access to the holdings of the Library of Congress of the United States. The cultural experience of tourists, naturalists, students, historians and children will be enhanced,” said Theodore Roosevelt Center Director Clay Jenkinson.
Under the terms of the agreement with TRNP, the university will supply the kiosk and computer equipment for the portal and provide maintenance of the Web site. TRNP will provide space in the Visitor Center, high-speed internet, and oversight and direction of staff and visitors using the kiosk. The park also agreed to allow the TR Center to digitize original Theodore Roosevelt documents in its collections and library to include on the Web site. In addition, the park will coordinate with other National Parks to locate any other documents pertaining to Roosevelt that can be digitized and included on the Web site.
“The Roosevelt kiosk in Theodore Roosevelt National Park represents precisely the kind of outreach and collaboration that we want to achieve in the Theodore Roosevelt Center,” Jenkinson said.
Although the Web site and center are in the beginning stages of development, there is already a good amount of material available online. The Web site can be viewed not only at the kiosks in Stoxen Library and Theodore Roosevelt National Park, but also from any computer with Internet access at www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org.
“At DSU we will make it possible for people everywhere to have access to the Roosevelt papers. That is our mission. But we want to create a new Roosevelt and humanities community in western North Dakota. It begins at the most appropriate place, at the national park named for Roosevelt,” Jenkinson said.
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| Third Annual Everett C. Albers Humanities Festival to be Held at DSU |
Posted: 4/11/2008 |
Shanna Schoch, News Bureau Manager
Dickinson State University will host the third annual Everett C. Albers Humanities Festival featuring a series of performances and lectures on campus April 20-28. This series is a celebration of the humanities and tribute to the festival’s namesake, the late Everett Albers, founder and longtime executive director of the North Dakota Humanities Council.
All presentations will be held in Beck Auditorium, Klinefelter Hall, and are free of charge and open to the public. The following presentations will be offered:
•Sunday, April 20, 7 p.m.: “The Shattering of J. Robert Oppenheimer,” presented by Clay Jenkinson, DSU scholar in residence
J. Robert Oppenheimer is remembered as “the father of the atomic bomb” and is best known for his role as the scientific director of the Manhattan Project, a World War II effort to develop the first atomic weapons. Following the first successful nuclear explosion during testing in New Mexico, Oppenheimer was deeply disturbed by the destructive power of the bomb. After the war, he used his political position as a chief advisor to the United States Atomic Energy Commission to lobby for international control of atomic energy and to avert the nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union.
Jenkinson is a humanities scholar, author of seven books and social commentator. He is a Jefferson scholar, a Lewis and Clark scholar and one of the nation’s leading interpreters of Thomas Jefferson. In addition to Jefferson and Oppenheimer, he also portrays Meriwether Lewis, John Wesley Powell and Theodore Roosevelt. He is the voice of Thomas Jefferson on the nationally syndicated National Public Radio program “The Thomas Jefferson Hour.” Jenkinson was one of the first winners of the nation’s highest award in the humanities, the Charles Frankel prize, and the 2004 winner of The Silver Pen Award from the Nevada Writer’s Guild. He is also a senior fellow for the Center for Digital Government, based in Sacramento, Calif., and was recently appointed a James Marsh Professor-at-Large for the University of Vermont.
•Monday, April 21, 4 p.m.: “Thoreau’s 1861 Minnesota Journey Revisited” presented by Dr. Dave Solheim, DSU professor of English
In 1861, the noted writer and naturalist Henry David Thoreau traveled to Minnesota in hopes of improving his health. Among other activities, he traveled by river boat to the Lower Sioux Reservation at Redwood Falls, where he saw many of the participants in the Minnesota Uprising which took place the following year. After the uprising, almost all the Dakota Indians in Minnesota were moved to territory in what would become North and South Dakota. Solheim has been revisiting the sites of Thoreau’s Minnesota journey and will discuss Thoreau’s written comments from his notebooks and correspondence in light of the contemporary perspective and the filter of history between now and 1861. He will connect Thoreau’s observations to the history of North Dakota.
Solheim has taught English at DSU for more than 20 years. He holds degrees from Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minn., Stanford University, Stanford, Calif., and the University of Denver, Denver, Colo. He has published poetry in magazines and anthologies since the 1970s including two full-length collections: “West River” and “The Landscape Listens.” In 1989 he was selected the North Dakota Statehood Centennial Poet, and in 2004 was named an Associate Poet Laureate for North Dakota. He has been involved in the activities and projects of the North Dakota Humanities Council since its beginnings in the early 1970s. In 1978 he served briefly as Chautauqua coordinator and acting assistant director of the Council.
•Monday, April 21, 7 p.m.: “To Keep the Schools Filled with Indian Pupils: Reservations and Education,” presented by Dr. Carole Barrett, associate professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Mary, Bismarck,
Through the treaty process, the United States government provided permanent homelands for Indian people by forming reservations. By the middle of the 19th century, it was clear that federal officials came to regard reservations as temporary solutions, so-called “way stations to civilization.” This assimilationist thinking dominated federal Indian policy and inspired numerous initiatives all designed to bring Indians into the fold of American society. Education was a critical part of this policy. Barrett’s presentation will focus on the reservation system in the United States, especially in North Dakota. She will explore Indian boarding schools, unique institutions intentionally designed to remove Native children from their families with the express purpose of detribalizing Indian youth, converting them to Christianity and civilizing them into the white man’s world. In essence, Indian boarding schools were created not so much to educate but to change Indian youth.
Barrett has received several Larry Remele Memorial Fellowships from the North Dakota Humanities Council. She has done extensive research and presented public programs about North Dakota Indians. Barrett has studied English and American Indian Studies at St. Louis University, Marquette University, the University of Wyoming, and Sinte Gleska University. She earned her doctorate from the University of North Dakota.
•Sunday, April 27, 7 p.m.: “Religious Zeal and Exotic Mission: One Missionary’s Encounter with Nineteenth-Century Hawai’i.”presented by Dr. Charles William Miller, 2008 Larry Remele Fellow
New England missionaries in the 19th century had predetermined ideas and attitudes toward Hawai’i and the Hawaiians long before they ever arrived on the islands. Using one missionary’s pre-Hawai’i journals, letters, and sermons, Miller places Ephraim Weston Clark’s early religious and intellectual development within the larger context of North American culture, thereby giving a “human face” to the 19th century imperial mind and to its motivations.
Miller is an associate professor of Religious Studies and the Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion at the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks. He received his doctorate from the University of Denver/Iliff School of Theology in 1996. After serving as a lecturer at Pacific Theological College, Suva, Fiji, his research interests began to center on the Pacific Basin, especially the Hawaiian Islands.
•Monday, April 28, 4 p.m.: “Lauban, Silesia, to Helena, Montana: One German Immigrant’s Experiences in Amerika” presented by Don Ehli, DSU adjunct lecturer of communication
German immigrant Friedrich Felix Gollnick grew up in Lauban, Silesia, in the 1850s, where he studied medicine and served as an orderly during the Franco-Prussian War. At the age of 26, he immigrated to America where he lived the remaining 19 years of his life. 26 letters, written by Gollnick to family members in Germany, have survived and were donated to the North Dakota State Historical Society by Gollnick’s great grand niece in 1999. That winter, Ehli translated them into English, a project which eventually led to his portrayal of Gollnick in the “Footsteps Into Medora’s Past” program. During the presentation at DSU, Ehli will take on the character of Gollnick and interact with the audience. Ehli will then answer questions and speak about his efforts to document the persons, places and events mentioned by Gollnick in his letters.
Ehli holds both a bachelor of arts degree and a bachelor of science degree in theatre arts from DSU. He has been involved with the State Historical Society of North Dakota and the Chateau de Morès for six summers. In addition to Gollnick, he has portrayed Frank B. Allen, the Marquis’ defense attorney in “The Murder Trial of the Marquis de Morès” and Arthur T. Packard, the editor of the “Bad Lands Cow Boy “(1884-1886) in “Recollections of Murder and Mayhem in Medora.” For the 2008 season, Ehli will expand that role to “History Alive!” on the Chateau porch, joining the Marquis (portrayed by Lance Rustand) and Madame de Morès (portrayed by Karen Nelson). Ehli is also one of the guides at the Chateau and has appeared in, and directed, numerous theatre productions at DSU and in Dickinson community theatre.
•Monday, April 28, 7 p.m.: “Fantasy Frontiers: The Real World of Madame de Mores,” presented by Karen Nelson, DSU adjunct instructor of communication
Medora von Hoffman, also known as the Marquise de Mores, was the daughter of wealthy New York banker Louis von Hoffman and the wife of Antoine Amédée-Marie-Vincent Manca de Vallombrosa, the Marquis de Mores. The town of Medora, N.D., founded in 1883, was named in her honor and the Chateau de Mores was built for her family. Within a few years, the Marquis’ meat packing plant failed and the town fell into a decline after the family left.
Nelson will provide an overview of research results including information about Madame de Mores’ life, her parents Baron and Baroness von Hoffman, her sister Pauline, the de Mores children and her husband, the Marquis. Her presentation will put one or two persistent “western myths” to rest, particularly the illness that led to the Marquise’s death. Nelson will also present photographs dating from the time of Medora’s youth to the wedding of her son, Louis. These photographs are not displayed at the Chateau or the interpretive center. Several watercolors depicting the couple’s visit to India and Nepal also will be shown during the program.
Nelson has portrayed Madame de Mores at the Chateau in Medora for the past nine summers. She holds a master’s degree in speech and theatre from Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, and a bachelor’s degree in theatre and history from Capital University, Columbus, Ohio. She currently teaches public speaking as an adjunct instructor at DSU.
Barrett’s and Miller’s presentations at DSU are funded in part by the North Dakota Humanities Council, a nonprofit, independent state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in their presentations do not necessarily reflect those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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| B2 Networks Partners with Dakota Athletic Conference |
Posted: 4/2/2008 |
Jim Dahl, Dakota Athletic Conference communications department 4/1/2008
DICKINSON, ND – B2 Networks and the Dakota Athletic Conference today announced a multi-year partnership to broadcast regular season and conference championship events from the campuses of the conference’s eight members. The partnership, which is the first between B2 Networks and an NAIA conference, will begin with the 2008-09 academic year.
The Dakota Athletic Conference is an eight-member conference with all institutions located in North Dakota and South Dakota. The member institutions are Black Hills State (Spearfish, S.D.), Dakota State (Madison, S.D.), Dickinson State (Dickinson, N.D.), Jamestown (Jamestown, N.D.), Mayville State (Mayville, N.D.), Minot State (Minot, N.D.), South Dakota School of Mines (Rapid City, S.D.) and Valley City State (Valley City, N.D.).
"The partnership with B2 networks is a very exciting venture for the Dakota Athletic Conference and can only make a great conference greater. In addition to recruiting area athletes the conference members have been reaching out to distant states and foreign countries to fill their rosters," said LaVern Jessen, DAC Commissioner. "Families, friends, & alumni, no matter where they are located in the world, will now be able to watch live any football, basketball or volleyball contest. I also anticipate that in the future, viewing opportunities will expand to additional sports and other campus activities."
Over the course of the next three years, B2 Networks will broadcast DAC football, women's volleyball and men's and women's basketball, with the possibility of adding more sports throughout the course of the deal. Fans will be able to access the games on a pay-per-view basis. In addition, season passes will be available for individual sports. Prices and other details will be announced at a later date.
"B2 Networks is excited about partnering with the Dakota Athletic Conference," stated Richard Brosal, B2 Networks Executive Vice President for Business Operations and Marketing. "This is a high quality conference that is a perfect fit in the B2 family. With the average distance between DAC campuses being nearly 300 miles, this partnership will bridge the distance by bringing the games right into homes of DAC fans anywhere in the world."
B2 Networks is a premier provider of reliable and secure international television and pay-per-view broadcasting systems. Our worldwide network of arenas, stadiums, local venues and data centers are currently in use to distribute live sports and events to personal computers, television screens, mobile devices and commercial venues around the world. Working with organizations such as the AHL, ECHL, NLL, IHL, USHL, NAHL, Arena Football Leagues and selected NCAA and NAIA conferences and member institutions, B2 Networks has established itself as a leader in innovative global direct to home, mobile and television broadcasting. For the B2 Networks' Programming Guide visit www.b2tv.com, or for information about B2 Networks, visit www.b2now.com.
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| Third Strom Entrepreneurship Conference event scheduled for March 19 |
Posted: 3/14/2008 |
Shanna Schoch, News Bureau Manager 3/10/2008
Ecotourism is the theme of the eighth annual Strom Entrepreneurship Conference event on Wednesday, March 19 at 1-4:30 p.m. at the Strom Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, 1679 6th Ave. W., Dickinson, N.D.
This year, the Strom Conference has been restructured as a series of four one-half day sessions, one each month from January to April. Each “”Strom Entrepreneurial Leadership Event” focuses on a different topic related to creativity and innovation. This new format allows businesses and individuals to learn about subjects that address their specific needs.
The March event features keynote speaker Jeremy Garret, founder and principal of NaTour Communications, a consulting firm that focuses on the planning, development and implementation of nature and eco-tourism products. Ecotourism can be defined as tourism to places having unspoiled natural resources, with minimal impact on the environment being a primary concern. Garrett has an academic background in wildlife ecology and communications. He will share ideas on how to start or enhance an ecotourism business. For more information on Garret and NaTour Communications, visit http://www.natour.us.
Following Garrett’s presentation, there will be several workshop sessions focused on ecotourism. Attorney Derrick Braaten will explain environmental and agricultural laws that may affect ecotourism; Garrett will speak about marketing an ecotourism business and Maria Effertz-Hanson will offer perspective on owning and operating an ecotourism business. The Effertz family added eight miles of biking/hiking trails to their ranch near Sawyer, N.D., and offer agricultural tours and camping. More information on their business, Black Butte Adventures, can be found online at http://www.blackbutteadventures.com.
The cost for the session is $20. For more information or to register, visit www.dickinsonstate.edu/strom.asp or call Strom Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at 701-483-2756.
The Strom Entrepreneurship Conference is made possible by the support of Jerome and the late Rosie Strom, DSU alumni who have supported the annual conference since its inception in 2001. Last year, Jerome Strom donated $1 million to the Strom Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation.
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| DSU Adds Exercise Science Major |
Posted: 2/27/2008 |
Shanna Schoch, News Bureau Manager 2/22/2008
DSU has developed an exercise science major in cooperation with the company Athletic Republic, formerly called Frappier Acceleration®. The major was approved by the State Board of Higher Education last month.
Athletic Republic is a company that develops testing tools and training programs designed to safely enhance the physical performance of athletes of all ages, skill levels, and interests. The company plans to add 150 new stores nationwide over the next five years and estimates a need for 15-20 specially trained people per year to work in these stores. The exercise major will provide such specialized training.
DSU entered into an agreement with Athletic Republic in January and will provide more than 2,000 hours of applied research work. The university will conduct three studies using specialized equipment and computer software supplied by Athletic Republic. In return for this $68,000 in-kind donation, DSU will supply the student athletes and the man hours to conduct the studies. The first study involves validating Athletic Republic’s new athletic performance composite testing system in their online database, which gives individual athletes feedback on their current level of fitness. The second study compares three different modes of exercise programs to be used by student athletes to see which generates the best results. During the third study, DSU researchers will develop strength training program content and produce supporting video examples for future Athletic Republic online products. Pete Leno, assistant football coach and director of the Ben C. Frank Human Performance Center where the research is conducted, will oversee the project.
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| DSU Students Awarded ND Space Grant Consortium Scholarships |
Posted: 2/20/2008 |
Four Dickinson State University students have been awarded scholarships from the North Dakota Space Grant Consortium for the 2008 spring semester. Allison Gunderson, Aaron Meyer, Tyler Opitz and Shayla Schmitz each received $1,125.
The North Dakota Space Grant Consortium was established 18 years ago, when the state of North Dakota received a grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to establish the North Dakota Space Grant Program. With its headquarters located at the University of North Dakota, the program now consists of a consortium of 16 affiliated colleges and universities, including DSU.
An important component of this NASA program has been the encouragement of young people to enter various fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). To encourage more students to become involved in STEM, the North Dakota Space Grant Consortium offers funds to each public 2-year, 4-year and tribal college in the state to provide scholarships for students who show particular interest and ability in STEM. Scholarship applicants must be undergraduates pursuing a degree program in the areas of science, mathematics or engineering, must have a minimum grade point of 3.00 and must be citizens of the United States.
For the academic year 2007-08, the North Dakota Space Grant Consortium provided $4500 to DSU to be used for scholarships. A committee of faculty members from the department of mathematics and computer science and the department of natural sciences evaluated applications and awarded the scholarship dollars.
The following students were each awarded an $1,125 scholarship:
• Allison Gunderson, Dickinson, N.D., is a secondary education mathematics major with a minor in psychology.
• Aaron Meyer, Dickinson, N.D., is a secondary education mathematics and computer science major with a minor in leadership.
• Tyler Opitz, Kennewick, Wash., is a biology and Spanish double major with a minor in chemistry. He plans to attend physical therapy school and earn a Doctorate of Physical Therapy.
• Shayla Schmitz, Helena, Mont., is a chemistry major with a minor in biology. She plans to pursue a career in pharmacology.
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Calendar of Events
Friday, May 2
• DSU Track & Field ~ DAC Outdoor Championships, Jamestown, ND, 11 a.m.
• Art Show & Sale, South Campus, 12 – 5 p.m.
• Form & Fusion Spring Performance, Dorothy Stickney Auditorium, 8 p.m.
• CAB Gas Card Bingo, Student Center, 9 p.m.
• DSU Softball ~ DAC Tournament, Jamestown, ND, TBA
• DSU Baseball ~ DAC Tournament, Valley City, ND, TBA
Saturday, May 3
• Form & Fusion Spring Performance, Dorothy Stickney Auditorium, 8 p.m.
• DSU Softball ~ DAC Tournament, Jamestown, ND, TBA
• DSU Baseball ~ DAC Tournament, Valley City, ND, TBA
Sunday, May 4
• DSU Spring Band Concert, Dorothy Stickney Auditorium, 2:30 p.m.
Monday, May 5
• Book Buy-Back, Student Center 112, 9 a.m. – 7 p.m.
• Artist Reception, Art Gallery, 3-5 p.m.
Tuesday, May 6
• Book Buy-Back, Student Center 112, 9 a.m. – 7 p.m.
• Choral Union “Spring Sing” Concert, Dorothy Stickney Auditorium, 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, May 7
• Book Buy-Back, Student Center 112, 9 a.m. – 7 p.m.
• National Nurses Week ~ “Come & Get Your Shots” event, Klinefelter 430, 2 p.m.
• Theatre Scholarship Program Banquet, Elks Sodbuster Room, 6 p.m.
• DSU Softball ~ Region III Tournament, Sioux City, IA, TBA
• DSU Baseball ~ Region III Tournament, TBA
Thursday, May 8
• Book Buy-Back - Bismarck, 9 a.m. – 7 p.m.
• DSU Softball ~ Region III Tournament, Sioux City, IA, TBA
• DSU Baseball ~ Region III Tournament, TBA
Friday, May 9
• Book Buy-Back, Student Center 112, 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
• Outstanding Senior Luncheon, Student Center, 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
• Senior Send-off, Alumni & Foundation House patio, 4:30 – 6:30 p.m.
• DSU Softball ~ Region III Tournament, Sioux City, IA, TBA
• DSU Baseball ~ Region III Tournament, TBA
DSU Welcomes
• Kay Locket, Staff Assistant for the Office of Extended Campus. Kay started April 28 and can be reached at 483-2166 or Kay.Locket@dickinsonstate.edu.
DSU Staff Changes
• Kim Hayes is the Talent Initiative Assistant at the Strom Center. She transferred to this new position from her previous position in Business Challenge. Kim started her new position on May 1 and can be reached at 483-2756 or Kimberly.Hayes@dickinsonstate.edu.
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