Sara Haugen, Student Activites, recently received funding from the Minnesota Arts Council and Arts Midwest to bring cultural and artistic programs to campus through the performing arts series. Performers such as the Lula Washington Dance Company. A dance troupe founded by Lula Washington 30 years ago, exploring African-American social commentary to the floor. This is one of many events that Sara's work will bring to UMM.

Gordon McIntosh, Associate Professor of Physics, has been awarded a $97,063 grant from the National Science Foundation for his project "Research at Undergraduate Institutions: SiO Master Studies." The project will determine the integrated flux density of the emission and velocity shifts of maser features in four different vibrational states from Mira and R Cassiopeia. The phase dependence and vibrational state dependence of any variations will be examined to look for the effects of the possible passage of a shock through the circumstellar material or other mechanisms that could produce the observed variations.

Tom McRoberts, Director of Continuing Education, Regional Programs, and Summer Session, and Center for Small Towns (CST) has received a $202,109 grant from the Otto Bremer Foundation. The funds will be used for the development and implementation for the "Faculty and Student Fellows" program. This three-year program will further connect communities with UMM to enhance regional community development activites across western Minnesota. With its more than 10-year history of working on community-based, locally identified issues, CST will utilize its staff, methodology, and resources to provide neede assistance to communities in the region.

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