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Graduate student Walid Issa has a mighty dream to create economic and social platforms for global coexistence — a dream fueled by challenging life experiences and powerful learning opportunities. Seeking avenues to world peace — particularly in the Middle East — has been an elusive goal for many. Issa just might have the street cred and ...

It’s widely known that George Clooney directed, co-wrote and stars in the film “The Monuments Men,” a depiction of a World War II platoon’s efforts to rescue art masterpieces from Nazi thieves and return them to their owners. What most don’t know is St. Cloud State’s George Selke, president from 1927-46, had a principal role in ...

In its first season in the National Collegiate Hockey Conference (NCHC), the 27 student-athletes of men’s Husky Hockey won the Penrose Cup league title. The Huskies defeated Colorado College 4-1 March 8 in Colorado Springs and were awarded the Penrose Cup in a locker room ceremony. Coach Bob Motzko ‘87 and the 21-8-5 Huskies finished ...

Public relations major and world-class Crashed Ice competitor Cameron Naasz, Lakeville, placed third during his home state downhill ice skating competition tour stop in St. Paul, and went on to finish third in the world championship standings. Naasz was in a heated race for first with Austria’s Marco Dallago since the Red Bull tour’s first stop in ...

Haley O’Brien, a 2013-14 senior from Excelsior, has been crowned Miss Minnesota USA 2014. She competed for the Miss USA title during an NBC television broadcast June 8 live from Baton Rouge, La., and made it into the top 20. O’Brien is studying medical biology and psychology, with a minor in chemistry.

Garrison Keillor, host of the nationally syndicated radio show “A Prairie Home Companion,” presented an evening of stories and poems at the Performing Arts Center to support student-created stories and poems at St. Cloud State. There were just 400 tickets available for the intimate “Evening with Garrison Keillor: Stories and Poems” event to raise funds for the ...

Noted aquatic fauna expert Heiko Schoenfuss is featured in a National Science Foundation (NSF) video for his expertise and research about unusual Hawaiian fish. With support from the NSF, the professor of biology along with other scientists and students from St. Cloud State and Clemson universities have made multiple trips to Hawaii to investigate the adaptation and ...

Committed to developing solutions and answering questions for area communities and the region, the School of Public Affairs officially opened its Research Institute in February Under the direction of economics professor King Banian and with the help of graduate assistant Walid Issa ’13 (read more about Issa on page 9), the Research Institute is already delivering ...

St. Cloud State is working to double its students studying abroad by 2019. Driven to provide students with greater self-awareness, self-confidence and cultural understanding, the university signed a commitment to the Generation Study Abroad initiative through the Institute of International Education (IIE). “Globalization has changed the way the world works, and employers are increasingly looking for workers who ...

We are proud to unveil the new look of Outlook magazine! We are also proud to be able to say that this creative work is was inspired and completed entirely by alumni, students, faculty, staff and friends of the University. St. Cloud State’s institutional and alumni magazine was given a fresh, clean updated look and feel ...

St. Cloud State students networked with peers and participated in a day of action and a commitments challenge at the Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U) 2014 meeting at Arizona State University in Tempe, Ariz., in March. The seventh annual conference drew more than 1,000 college students from 50 states and more than 80 countries. The ...

St. Cloud State University and Viking Coca-Cola, owned by the Faber family, have reached an exclusive agreement for pouring rights at St. Cloud State, which further solidifies the university’s long-standing relationship with the local bottling company. The 10-year agreement will feature monetary benefits for the university including initiative funding support totaling $250,000 for applied learning and ...

About a dozen St. Cloud police officers received classroom and behind-the-wheel training at the Minnesota Highway Safety and Research Center to learn the limitations of its new armored SWAT vehicle, how it drives and the safest way to operate it. The officers were trained and certified on the military surplus armored personnel carrier using a protocol ...

Julie K. Peters, owner and president of It’s Never Over…the business of learning, a leadership training and development company based in St. Cloud, was awarded the 2013 Outstanding Adjunct Teacher Award by the Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota. Peters is a 30-year adjunct professor of communication studies.

Associate professor Mark Muñiz and his team of anthropologists have tested soil samples in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness that challenge previous beliefs that glacier-led flooding in northern Minnesota caused the earliest humans to inhabit the south. Their discovery leads them to believe the site was home to a settlement 16,400 years ago, which would ...

St. Cloud State has long served as a cultural and entertainment hub for St. Cloud and Central Minnesota. Grand spaces, intimate stages and outdoor venues are among the settings for entertaining evenings. Many departments add unique programming to a campus calendar filled with concerts, interactive entertainment and sporting events. Related links » Explore the events calendar » Purchase ...

A big rock riff, an in-your-face beat and an AC/DC-like chant courtesy of Minnesota rock guitar virtuoso Paul “Stretch” Diethelm ‘03 is part of a new pre-game multimedia experience at Herb Brooks National Hockey Center. The “Husky Hockey Song” was written, performed and recorded by Diethelm in his studio across ...

St. Cloud State begins play in the National Collegiate Hockey Conference (NCHC) this season. The Huskies join the league along with former Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) rivals Colorado College, University of Denver, University of Minnesota Duluth, University of Nebraska at Omaha and University of North Dakota. Former Central Collegiate Hockey Association teams Miami University (Ohio) ...

Eight former Husky greats, representing seven different sports competing from the 1960s to 2005, were inducted into the St. Cloud State University Athletic Hall of Fame in October during a morning ceremony at the Herb Brooks National Hockey Center. Minnesota Twins television play-by-play announcer and St. Cloud State alumnus Dick Bremer ’78 was the master ...

Three St. Cloud police officers are helping ensure safety in the southside neighborhood near campus through the newly initiated Campus Area Police Services (CAPS) team. Related links » Follow the officers on Twitter: @SCPD_CAPS A crime reported in the campus area now gets ...