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St. Cloud State University started off the 2020-21 academic year with a convocation address focused on health and safety, equity and inclusion, and the future of the university.  President Robbyn Wacker presented her yearly address in a face covering to an in-person audience practicing physical distancing and to those watching via live stream from home.  In his ...

Already living in a pandemic, rainstorms and a tornado warning weren’t about to stop spring and summer 2020 graduates on Friday  as they returned to campus to cross the commencement stage.

With fall semester classes starting Aug. 24, IT Services is putting their finishing touches on 230 Zoom-capable classrooms. The rooms have been outfitted with USB-based document cameras capable of being used to show a professor lecturing, students in their seats or a paper document. Each professor is being issued a wireless lapel microphone that will connect ...

Last spring, St. Cloud State University’s Financial Aid office and the SCSU Foundation offered 992 Huskies Scholarships valued at $1.16 million to incoming, current and graduate students for this academic year. Through the generosity of alumni, faculty, staff, donors and friends, the SCSU Foundation raised $1.2 million for future scholarships for SCSU students. To continue to ...

With libraries closing their doors, this summer has been a challenge for advanced history undergraduate and graduate students in Dr. Rob Galler’s summer courses and research projects.

While working for both the Minnesota Wild and the Minnesota Whitecaps, St. Cloud State University alumna Alexis Pearson ’19 has adjusted to dealing with working in sports during a shutdown amid the coronavirus pandemic.

The Administrative Services building renovations are completed and the building’s offices are readying for St. Cloud State University’s physical reopening Aug. 3.

Gender and Women’s Studies director Dr. Beth Berila has published a new book that offers practical support for social change agents as they navigate common challenges along their journey.

Eleanor Rittenour earned a $1,000 scholarship from the Laborers International Union of North America (LIUNA) Minnesota & North Dakota.  

St. Cloud State University students and faculty members helped support the launch of a new District 742 program that distributes math materials to preschool children during the school year and to children in grades K-6 in the summer.

The ABILITY Event is celebrating 30 years of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) with 30 days of programming.

Professor Emeritus Dr. Amos Olagunju and cybersecurity major Hari Shrestha earned honorable mention in the National Cyber Watch Center’s fourth annual Innovations in Cybersecurity Education awards and recognition program.

Clara Welhouse is spending her summer taking classes at St. Cloud State University and working as an intern in the lab mixing treatments and caring for mouse subjects in Dr. Marina Cetkovic-Cvrlje’s diabetes research project. Welhouse is an ACCESS STEM scholar.

Chris Withers, a 2003 St. Cloud State University mass communications graduate, returns to the producer chair in July while working Chicago White Sox baseball games for NBC Sports Chicago.

Meteorologists and hydrologists across the country work each day to ensure tragedies like these don’t happen today by giving people the information they need to plan and warnings to evacuate. Their mission is to protect lives and save property. Their work is as needed now as it was in centuries past. St. Cloud State graduates ...

A four-year St. Cloud State University Bachelor of Elective Studies in Special Education is now available at the Anoka-Ramsey Community College Cambridge campus.

Since graduating from St. Cloud State University in 2004, alumna Jill Riley has been able to enjoy a successful career on the airwaves as a morning show host at The Current in the Minneapolis and St. Paul area.

St. Cloud State University is preparing to welcome students back to classes this fall with plans for offering classes that include in-person, online and blended options.

St. Cloud State University alumna Shereen Parsakalleh ’14 recaps her 10-week stay in New York and assisting in coronavirus efforts at NYU Langone Health System as a travel nurse.

St. Cloud State University’s Office of Research and Sponsored Programs has announced funding for two 2019-20 Proposal Enhancement Grant projects to support preliminary research or a scholarly project to enhance the expertise needed to be successful in seeking mid-level funding from an external agency.