Huskies in the news

Kate Pound, geology professor in the Department of Atmospheric and Hydrologic Sciences, is searching the bottom of Lake Victoria, east of Alexandria, for evidence of a mass bison kills. Earth science major Jen Wyers, Minnetonka, is using the suspected bison kill-site as her senior research project.

No. 3 men’s Huskies Hockey (22-5-1) won the North Star College Cup in St. Paul, defeating Minnesota State Mankato Saturday and Bemidji State Sunday. Frosh forward Mikey Eyssimont (Littleton, Colorado) was named MVP at the annual tournament of Minnesota’s NCAA Division I hockey schools.

Three-time All-American Clint Poster and No. 2 Huskies Wrestling will compete against Southwest Minnesota State in a doubleheader of high school and college wrestling Feb. 5 in Pierz. Poster is an entrepreneurship major from Pierz.

Stephen Philion, sociology professor, contributed to a MPR News story about challenges Muslims face praying in the workplace.

Let’s show Minnesota that St. Cloud State is the best university in the state!

Haji Yusuf ’09 was shopping at a grocery store here when he saw a white woman accuse the East African immigrants in the checkout lane of belonging to an Islamic terrorist group. “Get out of our country! I don’t want you here!” he recalled her saying.

The first time Charlie Lindgren played goalie as a kid, he said he let in 13 goals. Things have gotten better for Lindgren between the pipes. He is allowing fewer than two goals per game and is 19-5-1 in his junior season at St. Cloud State.

With a new trail hugging the riverbank through downtown St. Cloud, I’m hoping to make 2016 the “Year of the Mississippi.” My top goal is to renew a past passion for riding along the Beaver Island Trail, which overlooks many of the islands south of St. Cloud State University.

St. Cloud State University students and the campus publication received five awards Thursday in the newspaper association’s college contest.

Four local Somali residents took part in a community discussion about living in Minnesota as a Muslim, challenges they face and what the next steps are to bring together community.

On Saturday, the convention center will simultaneously host the high school event and the largest VEX U regional qualifier in the country. Seven regional teams are set to join two each from SCTCC and St. Cloud State University in trying to earn tickets to the world championship, which is a prize for younger teams, too.

GREAT is collaborating with St. Cloud and Sauk Rapids-Rice school districts and St. Cloud State University on an exhibit/virtual tour/educational talk at the university to further explore Frank’s story, which has been in print for almost 70 years.

They are students, activists, welders and artists. They’ve grown up in Egypt and Yemen and north Minneapolis. They are daughters and brothers and fathers and mothers.

Hundreds of students will take part in the 7th annual Power in Diversity Leadership Conference this weekend at St. Cloud State University.

Chad DeMatte ’93 will look to share the bond of cooking during a number of community education cooking courses for youth in February and March at Apollo High School.

There’s more to being a CEO than stock performance. That’s the message Morningstar apparently sent when it announced its 2015 CEO of the year award winner Tuesday, choosing Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf ’76 over the two other nominees, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and GE CEO Jeff Immelt.

Business and community leaders in Central Minnesota are attempting to change those statistics by offering a morning event to helping young women network with seasoned professionals from a variety of industries. Times Media, in conjunction with St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud Federal Credit Union, Marco Inc. and the Greater St. Cloud Development Corp., sponsored ...

A third annual contest and two new ones celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. brought 24 area students awards last week. Those results were “wonderful,” Drake said. The artist said the same about the third annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day breakfast at St. Cloud State University, which more than 500 people attended, and an evening ...

Women on Wednesday is returning to St. Cloud State University with an “On the Pulse” theme.

Matt Anderson ’08 of Sioux City has been appointed curator of history at the Sioux City Public Museum.

Justin Hegna still has a copy of his first Breakdown USA boys basketball yearbook from 2001 on his desk.

“The only way you’re going to know … is by asking.” At some point, in normal parent-child relationships, the power dynamic flips. Child is caring for parent. This can be uncomfortable, uneasy, difficult to manage. One or both parties may have trouble accepting that arrangement.

The Paramount Gallery and Gifts shop is joining in on a popular trend: adult coloring books.

Van Nelson didn’t even start running until he was a junior at Minneapolis Washburn.

President Earl H. Potter III speaks up for a promotional video for the Big Brothers Big Sisters’ Man Up campaign.