University News

St. Cloud State University’s Office of Research and Sponsored Programs has announced funding for five 2019-20 Midcareer Grant projects to support the scholarly work of permanent or tenured faculty. 

We have heard you when you told us that you want to be in class with your professors and classmates and you want to be actively engaged in campus life, while remaining safe and healthy. President Wacker, after talking with many of you and your families, has charged the campus community to do everything we ...

St. Cloud State University alumni Tyler Sterner ’19 and Diane Olson ’06 have played key roles in helping Graco produce a new line of disinfectant sanitizing sprayers to allow consumers the ability to properly clean surfaces.

Dr. Adel Ali has accepted the permanent position of dean of the College of Science and Engineering, beginning July 1.

Following a national search, Tressa Ries has accepted the position of Vice President for Finance and Administration at St. cloud State University and will officially begin her tenure on July 1

St. Cloud State University students are thankful to the overwhelming support from faculty, staff, alumni, friends and community members at large to be able to continue to utilize the Huskies Food Pantry during a time of need.

For the first time in the St. Cloud Area Quarterly Business Report’s (QBR) 22 year history, St. Cloud State economists King Banaian and Rich MacDonald (co-authors since 2004) presented survey results and the state of the local economy virtually.

Since professor of economics Lynn MacDonald began facilitating the economics reading group in 2008, she has met with students in person, over dinner, at a local restaurant – hard copies of that week’s book in hand. In early spring of 2020 the reading group had to be re-imagined due to COVID-19.

President Robbyn Wacker will be among a trio of St. Cloud State educational leaders presenting at the Jugaad Leadership Program’s “COVID-19: Demystifying Cultural Myths” series at 5:30 p.m. June 24 via Zoom and live on Facebook. 

As we continue to follow recommendations from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Minnesota Department of Health and the state of Minnesota, we want to continue to reiterate that the safety of our Husky Community is our number one priority.

Today we celebrate the end of slavery in the United States with Juneteenth.

Three St. Cloud State University students are preparing to start working on their summer research thanks to the Huskies Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship program.

Professors of criminal justice John Baker, J.D. and Dr. Shawn Williams pooled together their knowledge, resources, and professional experience for a conversation on the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police.

St. Cloud State University Concert Choir singers worked together to present one of their 2020 performances virtually before the end of the school year.

Student and faculty theses, dissertation and papers are being found and downloaded from St. Cloud State University’s Institutional Repository. 

Faculty and staff are working hard making plans to welcome students back to campus this fall safely with a focus on learning and health.

Composer, professor and sound artist Dr. Scott Miller is the 2020 winner of the Hellervik Prize.

Six St. Cloud State faculty and staff members have earned funding through a Minnesota State Multimedia Project designed to surface innovative practices occurring across the Minnesota State system.

Dr. Kannan Sivaprakasam led a session on “Instructional Technologies During the Outbreak of COVID-19” during a webinar series hosted by the Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology on May 20.

A unique challenge was brought forward by SCSU alumnus Dennis Moske in support of the ongoing SCSU Athletics Alumni Challenge and the effort to help the remodeling of the Halenbeck Strength and Conditioning Center.