Huskies in the news

A higher percentage of Minnesotans believe that climate change is happening compared to surveys that ask residents across the country.

In 1939, local architect Nairne W. Fisher designed a rear annex erected by WPA workers with granite donated by St. Cloud State Teachers College — now St. Cloud State University.

Africa Week at St. Cloud State University will end with dinner, dancing and more Saturday.

You may soon be able to buy a cold beer at a St. Cloud State University hockey game. The school is asking the city of St. Cloud for temporary liquor licenses to sell beer at two upcoming men’s games.

It will be good to have the School of Public Affairs at St. Cloud State University conduct a new survey. Like the previous efforts, it will seek to measure social capital by asking about the strength of the connections people have to their communities.

The Great River Chorale presents its “Made in Minnesota: Music of the Season” concert. The concert features many works of Minnesota composers and poets.

Granite City Radio Theatre is a show at Pioneer Place on Fifth that is broadcast live on St. Cloud State University’s KVSC-FM (88.1). The program mixes comedy, trivia, music and Shade’s Brigade, a crime noir radio drama.

In a game littered with scoring chances, the Gophers couldn’t keep pace.

An experiment that started last week in St. Cloud State University’s Aquatic Toxicology Lab expands upon 2012 studies that determined fish might be affected by pharmaceuticals entering rivers and lakes through wastewater treatment plant effluents.

Stillwater Gazette — For John King ’82, the term “prison guard” is outdated. In his nearly 34-year career with the Minnesota Department of Corrections — as an officer, warden and administrator — King has done much more than stand guard.

KDLH (Duluth) — Grand Rapids, Minn. native and St. Cloud State senior forward Molly Illikainen has been named the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) offensive player of the week, it was announced on Tuesday morning.

Alumna ViAnn Olson is honored with a 2015 Teaching Excellence Award from the American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges.

St. Cloud woodcarver works with veterans at St. Cloud State.

The School of Public Affairs is conducting research on community trust for the Central Minnesota Community Foundation.

St. Cloud Times — The Great Recession may be a memory for some, but for Brett Anderson ’13 it serves as a daily reminder of just how far he has come.

Mille Lacs County Times — After living and breathing by the philanthropic ideology of her workplace for over 22 years, Laurie Leciejewski ’89 received a promotion that moved her career at SPIRE Credit Union from Princeton to Milaca.

Swimming World — The audience cracked up as Troy Mullaney decribed a tall, gangly, naive swimmer who had joined his high school team after watching an Ashton Kutcher movie, “The Guardian,” and thinking “it looked easy.”

Claire VanderEyk ’10 argues that parts of Technical High School in St. Cloud could be renovated into a high school that could last another 100 years.

Men’s Huskies Hockey routs North Dakota 6-1 to earn a series split and a share of first-place in the National Collegiate Hockey Conference.

Three people with St. Cloud State connections contributed to a story about Depression-era biographical sketches of Stearns County citizens.

President Earl H. Potter III comments on recent Confederate flag-waving demonstrations in St. Cloud.

Minnesota Highway Safety and Research Center teamed with Fox 9 News to share life-saving driving lessons.

Jaylani Hussein ’11 hosted a Nov. 16 media event at which Twin Cities clerics condemned the recent terror attacks in Paris.

Stephen Ubl ’91 is the new president and CEO of PhRMA, an association of biopharmaceutical research companies.

Austin Goergen and Clint Poster earned first-place finishes at a national meet that included NCAA Division I wrestlers.