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Professor Shelly Schaefer (Criminal Justice) was reappointed by Governor Walz to serve another three-year term as the higher education representative on the Minnesota Peace Officer Standards and Training Board (POST).

Psychology professor Dr. Serena King was the primary author of a letter published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Pediatrics publication entitled " Frequent and Problem Gambling in Public School Students." King's co-author...

Dr. Valerie Mulvenna '24, a graduate of �Ͼ�Ʒ��'s Doctorate in Education program, presented at the 2025 Children & Nature Network’s Nature Everywhere national conference held May 13-16 at St. Paul’s RiverCentre.

�Ͼ�Ʒ��'s Natural Sciences and Environmental Education (NSEE) has received re-accreditation by the North American Association for Environmental Education. This distinction is granted to programs that meet exceptionally high levels of rigor, professional relevance, academic integrity and set the standard for the field of environmental education.

Professor Suda Ishida led a group of five �Ͼ�Ʒ�� students from the English and Communication Studies Department to participate in the Graduate and Undergraduate Conference on “The Art of Storytelling” at the University of St. Thomas on April 25, 2025.

Michelle Benegas, associate professor in the School of Education and Leadership, launched the second edition of her 2020 book, Teacher Leadership for School-Wide English Learning, coauthored with Amy Stolpestad.

�Ͼ�Ʒ�� students Hanan Abdi '26, and Sophia Schlink '25 recently joined biochemistry professor Betsy Martinez-Vaz at the Annual Conference of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB), where they presented their biochemistry research and co-led a national workshop on using virtual reality for 3D molecular visualization in biochemistry courses.

Professor Jillian Peterson (Criminology and Criminal Justice) recently published new research in Nature Mental Health, entitled Mental health consequences of exposure to mass and non-mass shootings in a national sample of US adults.

Alexandra Kretsch '25 was recently honored by the ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge for her work with �Ͼ�Ʒ�� students during the fall 2024 campaign season.