Huskies in the news

WCCO — Those eager to cash in on a budding marijuana industry in Minnesota or cultivate plants of their own can turn to St. Cloud State University this fall to learn how.

The university is the first state school to offer such classes, which are part of a 24-week, non-credit certificate program. It’s a partnership with California-based cannabis training company, Green Flower, which will have industry experts as instructors.

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KNSI — A St. Cloud State University graduate was the anthem singer at Saturday’s Vikings preseason game, and she brought the house down, both in person and online.

Paige Jaeger received a degree in 2020 and is now a technical director at U.S. Bank. The Vikings released a video on TikTok and Instagram showing Jaeger belting out the Star-Spangled Banner and then rushing back to the control room to help ensure a seamless gameday experience for those in attendance.

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ST. CLOUD LIVE — Phillip Klaphake isn’t sure if anyone knows what he did on the football field in college. But he definitely remembers.

The Sauk Rapids activities director and head football coach was a semifinalist for the Harlon Hill Trophy during his junior year playing quarterback for St. Cloud State and was a finalist for it his senior year. The Harlon Hill Trophy is Division II’s version of the Heisman Trophy.

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ST. CLOUD LIVE — When Kelsey Bean started selling candy and ice cream at The Chocolate Ox in downtown Nisswa as a high school sophomore, she had no idea that it would one day become her career. “This was technically my first job I ever had,” Bean said on a nice summer morning while sitting on the patio outside the popular store she now owns at age 35.

After graduating from Brainerd High School in 2006, Bean earned a teaching degree from St. Cloud State University four years later. She was an elementary school teacher for 15 years with the Sauk Rapids-Rice School District.

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STAR TRIBUNE — That bright aura that emanated so strongly from McMullen-Boyer never dulled nor dimmed in her 30 years at the station, despite dealing with terminal cancer the past few years. She retired in April and died at her home July 12 at the age of 54.

McMullen-Boyer grew up in St. Cloud, where her father was a chemistry professor, and graduated from SCSU with a mass communications degree in 1991. She started working at KVSC as a student, writing copy and splicing reel-to-reel recordings for the news director.

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KNSI — St. Cloud State University has set the dates for its 2023 Homecoming festivities. The three-day campus-wide celebration will take place from October 5th through the 7th. The Gala: A Celebration of Our Community will be held Friday night at the Atwood Memorial Center. An event is being planned for the SCSU community garden on Saturday, and Husky Fest will be Sunday. The men’s hockey team is scheduled to play St. Thomas that weekend.

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ST. CLOUD TIMES — As a regional university we are proud to celebrate being an integral part of Central Minnesota. When I speak around the region and ask folks to raise their hands if they are alumni, there are always several Huskies in the group and they speak proudly of their university and their time at St. Cloud State University.

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ST. CLOUD LIVE — It seems like there isn’t a job that Holly Schreiner hasn’t had in the St. Cloud State athletic department. Schreiner was named the school’s full-time athletic director on May 10, 2023, after a year as the interim. She has worked in the St. Cloud State athletic department for 18 years, but has had a full-time job with the school since 2000.

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KNSI — St. Cloud State University faculty and students are part of a group preparing to study the effects of solar eclipses on the upper reaches of the atmosphere. Assistant Professor Rachel Humphrey says experts from across the country will be looking to see what data is gathered by the project. So far, the group has been testing its equipment in Mora.

Humphrey says it’s similar to the balloons used by the National Weather Service but these go much higher. Early trials have gone well. Humphrey says, “And what’s great is that, so far, we’ve had really successful launches, where our weather balloons have been tracked up to over 32,000 meters, so that is over 100,000 feet in altitude.”

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WJON — A new partnership will give clinical research students at St. Cloud State University hands-on experience with cutting-edge technology.

SCSU has partnered with Veeva Systems, a California-based software company, to provide the Veeva Vault eTMF program to students at SCSU’s Applied Clinical Research Program in Plymouth, Minnesota.

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