The National Dance Coaches Association has named St. Cloud State University Dance Team’s head coach Brittany Kwallek as a College Coach of the Year finalist.
Kwallek has coached for six years, leading the team to five national championships and 11 top-three finishes.
Four St. Cloud State University employees were recently honored in the annual Minnesota State Board of Trustees Awards for Excellence.
The awards provide system-wide recognition for consistently superior commitment to student learning and to encourage the ongoing pursuit of excellence at the colleges and universities of Minnesota State.
Bill Meissner, a St. Cloud State University faculty emeritus in the Department of English, recently published a new novel titled “The Wonders Of The Little World”. It is Meissner’s third novel and 12th book overall.
A St. Cloud State University professor and former coach has been recognized for her work in helping break barriers in providing equity in sports for girls and women of all ages.
Paula U’Ren, a professor and chairperson of SCSU’s Department of Kinesiology and former SCSU Softball head coach, was honored with the Breaking Barriers Award by National Girls & Women in Sports Day — Minnesota.
Troy Kalla was awarded the Chartwells Higher Education’s Frontline Culinary Difference Maker Award during the 2023 Compass Group’s (parent of Chartwells) Night of Stars annual event.
The award honors associates who achieve excellence, provide great results every day and go above and beyond. It stands as one of the most prestigious recognitions that associates can receive, and Kalla accepted the award in Orlando, Florida in October.
Facilities Management is home to multiple workers who have kept SCSU running for over 30 years. Facilities Management, comprised of building service, physical plant and grounds workers, constantly maintains SCSU’s campus footprint.
The SCSU Husky Make-It-Space is working with 3 Strings founder Ruth LeMay to develop piano key covers for her inclusive music education method and band.
This innovative technology is making it possible for neurodivergent students to experience music in a new way.
Dr. Christopher Lehman, Chair and Professor of Ethnic Studies at SCSU, recently received the inaugural Ruth Riester Award for Historical Contributions to the Humanities by the Minnesota Humanities Center (MHC).
The award was given to Dr. Lehman in recognition of his noteworthy research and publication of “Slavery’s Reach: Southern Slaveholders in the North Star State,” which was released in 2019 and has been a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award in the “Minnesota Nonfiction” category.
St. Cloud State University celebrated its first-generation students, faculty and staff in the Atwood Memorial Center on Nov. 8 during F1rst-Generation Celebration Day.
F1rst-Generation Celebration Day is part of an annual, national effort to raise awareness for first-generation college students and their experiences. First-generation students are individuals whose parents did not receive a bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
Utilizing St. Cloud State University’s state-of-the-art clean room in the Integrated Science and Engineering Laboratory Facility (ISELF), Professor Emeritus Dr. John Harlander is working on an independent project that is an extension of the Ionospheric Connection (ICON) NASA satellite project that he previously worked on.
Dr. Harlander is using ISELF’s clean room to test a next-generation instrument that is intended to orbit the Earth while monitoring upper atmospheric winds. This new instrument, the Interferometer for Neutral Dynamics (INDI), is a follow-on to the ICON satellite mission.
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