News releases/April 2006
Index:
MSUM makes Alcohol & College life course mandatory for incoming freshmen
Red Weather's 25th anniversary reading Thursday
Krispy Kreme: What makes those donuts taste so good?
Morning, afternoon graduation ceremonies this spring
Trivia-lising the Constitution
Playwright Burke talks on modern theatre trends
April campus music events
Wrestling coach rescues woman in flood
300 students present research at Academic Conference
Hispanic United Conference April 18 & 19
Traveling philosophers: Socrates' CafeTheatre Signature Series features four Mamet plays
Health Fair April 5
Animals & Literature exhibit, reading
Campus School lecture April
Women's Bioethics Project
Bakke named prospect researcher
Lavender editor speaks
Real World star on campus
McGrath Writers series features essayist, poet
Junior to attend Smithsonian training program

THEATRE DEDICATES RHODA HANSEN GREEN ROOM
In recognition for her unwavering dedication to education, service to thecommunity and contribution to excellence in the arts, MSUM will dedicate the Green Room in the Roland Dille Center for the Arts in honor of Rhoda Hansen. You are welcome to the dedication ceremony at 1:30 p.m. Thursday, April 27 in the new Rhoda Hansen Green Room.

Registration for the first group of students begins tomorrow…
MSUM MAKES ALCOHOL & COLLEGE LIFE
COURSE MANDATORY FOR FRESHMEN
MSU Moorhead is the first campus in the state to require incoming freshmen to complete a one-credit course on “Alcohol and College Life.”

The course was approved by MSUM Pres. Roland Barden and the university’s Academic Policy Advisory Committee last week. It goes into effect this fall.

The first crop of new freshmen will be registering for the classes tomorrow (Thursday) during MSUM’s initial Dragon Days program.

“It’s a big step for the university to make this an important issue,” says Susanne Williams, who chairs the President’s Task Force on Student Alcohol Misuse.

The one-credit course, which students must pay for, is a 15-week on-line program developed by the University of Minnesota.

“It’s an incredibly good project,” Williams said. “It’s not preachy or dull. It’s realistic, practical and fun, and includes text, video and audio lessons that students can do on their computers at their own pace or even download on their MP3 players.”

The course includes five quizzes and two written assignments, and is designed to appeal to students who decide to drink or not to drink. Grading will be done by graduate students at the University of Minnesota.

Williams said it’s a part of a comprehensive plan on the MSUM campus to give students a full set of skills and tools to live in what’s becoming “the alcohol saturated environment of college campuses.”

The University of Minnesota selected MSUM to be the pilot for four-year schools in the state. Since developing the on-line course in the fall of 2002, nearly 2,500 students at the University’s Twin Cities and Duluth campuses have voluntarily registered for the course. It’s not yet mandatory at the U of M.

“It’s such an amazing program,” Williams said, “that I think it will go national.”

Note: You can reach Williams (who also serves as assistant to MSUM President Barden) at 218-477-2020 or e-mail at susannew@mnstate.edu

MSUM’S LITERARY MAGAZINE RED WEATHER RELEASED DURING THURSDAY READING
A reading featuring the work published in this year’s 25th anniversity issue of “Red Weather,” MSUM’s campus literary magazine, starts at 8 p.m. Thursday, April 27 in the university’s Library Porch.

The new edition includes poetry, fiction, non-fiction, graphic arts and photography by MSUM students, faculty and alumni.

Copies of the new Red Weather will be available that evening. It’s also available at the MSUM Bookstore and other local bookstores.

Technology and the American Consumer at Krispy Kreme
WHAT MAKES THOSE DONUTS TASTE SO GOOD?
What makes Krispy Kreme taste so good?
Carolyn de la Peña, author of The Body Electric: How Strange Machines Built the Modern America, says it has much to do with the look of Krispy Kreme stores as it does with the doughnuts they produce.

She’ll explain that during a 7 p.m. lecture Monday, April 24 in Minnesota State University Moorhead’s Center for Business 109.

Peña, an associate professor of American Studies at the University of California at Davis, will present a tour of Krispy Kreme's mechanized interior spaces over three eras: the 1930s to 1950s, the 1960s to 1970s, and the post 1990s.

Each of these interior design eras created a particular view of industrial machines, allowing consumers to experience a relationship between themselves and the machines of industrial progress.

Her talk illustrates that connection, demonstrating that Krispy Kreme's success—and failure—may be driven more by culture than by taste.

For questions, contact Maureen Reed at MSUM’s American Studies department, 477-5054.

The lecture, free and open to the public, is sponsored by the university’s American Studies Program and Visiting Scholars Committee.

Morning and afternoon commencements...
GRADUATION TAKES ON A DIFFERENT LOOK
MSU Moorhead’s annual spring commencement on Friday, May 12 in Nemzek Hall Auditorium will be a little different this year. To accommodate all guests, the university has split graduation ceremonies into two parts: at 10 a.m. students graduating from the College of Education & Human Services and the College of Arts & Humanities will receive their degrees; at 2 p.m. students graduating from the College of Business & Industry and the College of Social & Natural Sciences will receive their degrees.

Speaker for the morning graduation is Charles Cheney, superintendent of West Fargo Public School District and MSUM alum who earned an elementary education degree here in 1965. He received a master’s degree in elementary education in 1969 and a Ph.D. in school administration in 1982, both from UND. He has served the West Fargo Public Schools for over 40 years as a teacher, middle school principal, assistant superintendent, and currently as superintendent.

Speaker for the afternoon graduation is Judge Lisa Borgen, also an MSUM alum who earned a criminal justice degree here in 1993. She was appointed to the bench in Minnesota’s 7th Judicial District by Gov. Tim Pawlenty earlier this year. The 7th Judicial District covers 10 counties in Minnesota, including Clay and Otter Tail. Borgen had been the Clay County attorney since 1999.

In MSUM Library April 25….
TRIVIA-LIZING THE CONSTITUTION: TESTING YOUR
KNOWLEDGE OF OUR NATION'S FOUNDATION
A Constitution Brown Bag Seminar on “Trivia-lizing the Constitution: Testing Your Knowledge of Our Nation’s Foundation, will meet at noon Tuesday, April 25 in Library 103.

It will feature Mary Schneider, executive director Legal Services of Northwestern Minnesota (which serves low income and elderly people in 22 counties) and Mark Schneider from the Schnedier Law Firm of Fargo

Mary Schneider has been a legal services attorney for over 25 years. She received her J.D. from Emory University Law School in Atlanta, and an advanced law degree in International Human Rights from the Irish Centre for Human Rights at the National University of Ireland Law School in Galway.

Mark Schneider has been engaged in general practice at the Schneider Law Firm since January 1979. Prior to that he was Staff Attorney at the U.S. Water Resources Council in Washington, D.C., and Regional Attorney for the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights in Atlanta, Georgia. He graduated from the University of North Dakota Law School in 1974, and is licensed to practice in all North Dakota and Minnesota Courts, Federal District Court of North Dakota, Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, U.S. Court of Claims, and U.S. Supreme Court. He has argued dozens of cases before the North Dakota Supreme Court.

Fantasia, poetry and lies…
PLAYWRIGHT KIMBERLY BURKE TALKS ON TRENDS IN MODERN THEATRE MONDAY AT MSUM
Playwright Kimberly Burke will give a convocation lecture on "Fantasia, Poetry, Lies: Trends in Contemporary Theatre" at 4 p.m. Monday, April 24 at 4 p.m. in the MSU Moorhead Library Porch.

Burke is a 2005-6 Jerome Fellow through The Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis. Her plays include "minus tide," slated in May for production by The Rude Mechs with Bayou Radio in Austin, Texas; "Lacuna," produced in The Fusebox Festival at the Blue Theatre and at the Cohen New Works Festival at the University of Texas at Austin; and "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird," produced at The Old American Can Factory in Brooklyn, New York.

Other works by Burke have been developed and performed in Alaska, Illinois, Minnesota, South Carolina and Tennessee.

Recently commissioned to write a play for teenage actors by The Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Burke has received other commissions from The History Center and Emigrant Theatre (Minnesota), Austin Scriptworks and the City of Austin (Texas) and Converse College (South Carolina). She is the recipient of a 2006 Hedgebrook Residency, has served as Playwright in Residence with New York Stage and Film, and was Core Member of Austin Scriptworks for several years.

In May 2005, she received her MFA from the University of Texas at Austin Playwriting program.

FM DANCE & MSUM THEATRE ARTS PRESENT EVENING OF DANCE MAY 3
FM Dance Repertory Theatre and the MSU Moorhead Theatre Arts present “An Evening of Dance” at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 3 in the Roland Dille Center for the Arts Hansen Theatre.

The eclectic dance concert features the work of student choreographers and dancers, including jazz, lyrical, ballet, modern, tap and hip-hop dance.

Tickets are on sale now: $5 for adults and $3 for students. Call the MSUM Box Office for more information at 477-2271.

APRIL MUSIC AT MSUM
The following music ensembles will perform in April.

* Faculty recital featuring Dan Phillips on guitar, Wednesday, Aril 19 at 8 p.m. in Weld Hall Glasrud Auditorium

* Jazz Ensemble I, directed by Tom Strait, and Jazz Ensemble II, directed by Toby Curtright, Thursday, April 20 at 8 p.m. in Weld Hall Glasrud Auditorium

* Snowfire at 8 p.m. Friday, April 21 in Weld Hall Glasrud Auditorium

* Jazz Guitar Ensemble directed by Dan Phillips on Tuesday, April 25 at 8 p.m. in Weld Hall Glasrud Auditorium

* Flute Ensemble, 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 26 in the Center for the Arts Fox Recital Hall

* Jazz Combos directed by Simon Rowe, Toby Curtright and Dan Phillips, Thursday, April 27 at 8 p.m. in Weld Hall Glasrud Auditorium

* Symphony Orchestra at 8 p.m. Friday, April 28 in Weld Hall Glasrud Auditorium

* Wind Ensemble directed by John Tesch and featuring soloisst Lucas Bernier, Sunday, April 30 at 3 p.m. in Weld Hall Glasrud Auditorium

DRAGON WRESTLING COACH HELPS SAVE WOMAN CAUGHTIN FLOOD ON IS WAY TO WORK
MSUM wrestling coach Kennan Spiess helped save the life of a 72-year-old woman who almost drowned in her submerged vehicle during this week's flood.

The driver of the vehicle, Deloris Olson of Ada, was westbound on County Road 21 near Halstad when she tried to drive through floodwater covering the road. Her car stalled and was swept into the ditch.

Spiess and Norman County Highway Department worker Mark Skansgaard pulled the woman from the car’s backseat.

‘It was the coldest swim I’ve ever taken," said Spiess, who saw Olson’s care while driving to work from Shelly. “I couldn’t believe it…When I saw the car going under, I knew something had to be done, and fast.”

All three were treated and released at the Halstad rescue building.The town is about 45 miles north of Moorhead.

300 MSUM STUDENTS PRESENT RESEARCH AT EIGHT ANNUAL ACADEMIC CONFERENCE
What would happen to Sabin, Minn., if it were hit by a nuclear warhead? Curious about the physics of using your head in a soccer game? How can you tell if a corn chip is made from genetically modified seed? Who is the real Scorpion King? And why do life saving drugs cost so much?

Those are some of questions students address in MSUM’s eighth annual Student Academic Conference scheduled from 1 to 3:50 p.m. Wednesday, April 12 throughout the university’s student union.

More than 300 students will present research on 250 projects that day. It’s free and open to the public.

The purpose of the afternoon event is to showcase the work and talent of MSUM students through presentations, posters, and creative works.

The conference keynote speaker is Tammy Miller, chief executive officer for Border States Electric Supply, who earned both her undergraduate accounting degree and MBA from MSUM. Her address, on “Communication, Problem Solving and Collaboration: Skills for Business, Skills for Life,” starts at 11:50 a.m. as part of a conference luncheon in the student union ballroom, followed by a student panel at 12:20 p.m. on the importance of student research.

Miller joined Border States in 1991 and was appointed treasurer in 1992. She has served in a variety of positions at the corporate office and in 2003 relocated to Phoenix, Arizona, where she assumed general management responsibilities for the Southwest Region. She served as the company’s president last year before being named CEO in January.

Border States is a 100% employee-owned company with headquarters in Fargo, N.D.. It is the 14th largest electrical distributor in the United States with 24 branch locations in 11 states and Mexico.

Details about the day’s events can be found at the conference Web site, web.mnstate.edu/acadconf

MSUM’S 11th ANNUAL UNITY CONFERENCE ON HISPANIC CULTURE SET APRIL 18-19
MSUM’s 11th annual Unity Conference focusing on Latino culture, history, education and legislation is scheduled Tuesday and Wednesday, April 18 and 19 in the Comstock Memorial Union on campus.

To register, contact Abner Arauza at arauza@mnstate, 477-2721, or visit the conference Web site: web.mnstate.edu/cultural/UnityConf.htm. It’s open to the public.

Following the theme “Introspectiva: Latino Trends in the 21st Century,” topics at the conference range from the economic impact of Latinos in the United States the changing face of Minnesota, to experiences and family trends of Latinas in the United States and integrating Latino students into higher education..

Conference presenters include: Attorney Susana De Leon, a board member of the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild; Jennifer Godinez, executive director of the MN College Access Network, an initiative of the Minnesota Minority Education Partnership; Victor Rodriguez, a professor in the Chicano and Latino Studies department at California State University, Long Beach; and Maria Bermudez, a marriage and family therapy professor at Texas Tech University.

Also included is a performance by Teatro Del Pueblo, a small, non-profit Latino theatre in St. Paul that promotes cultural pride in the Latino community; and a motivational talk by Efrain Guerrero, better known as “Happy,” a prominent Mexican-American comedian from Corpus Christi.

Schedules will be available at CMU 203 on the day of the conference or it can be downloaded at the conference Web site.

TRAVELING PHILOSOPHERS MAKE STOP IN FARGO
World-traveling philosopher Christopher Phillips and Cecilia Chapa Phillips, bring their passion for philosophy to the “Socrates Café” Thursday, April 13 from 7 to 9 p.m., room 114 at the NDSU Downtown Campus, 650 NP Avenue, Fargo. The title of their talk: “A Modern-Day Journey of Discovery Through World Philosophy.”

Christopher has traveled the globe facilitating hundreds of Socrates Cafés, in which ordinary people gather in ordinary places to ask questions—and questions about questions. He challenges them to consider: What is virtue? Good? Justice? Piety? Courage?

In his bestseller “Socrates Café,” Christopher describes his extensive travels across the United States starting philosophical discussion groups where people reflect on “life’s big questions,” such as the meaning of love, friendship or growing old.

In the successful follow up, “Six Questions of Socrates,” he continued his work venturing to foreign lands and engaging in spirited discussions with people from many different backgrounds: Japanese fifth-graders, Somalian refugees, a Mexican museum worker and Korean Buddhists, among others.

Cecilia regularly gives workshops to educators interested in implementing Socratic inquiry in the classroom, and holds a ‘classroom without walls’ for children in Chiapas, Mexico.

The Phillips are co-founders of the Society for Philosophical Inquiry (SPI), a grassroots nonprofit organization devoted to supporting philosophical inquirers of all ages and walks of life.

This Socrates Café is sponsored by Minnesota State University Moorhead’s Dille Fund for Excellence, the College of Arts and Humanities, the Visiting Scholars Program, and North Dakota State University’s Cooperative Sponsorship Committee, College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of History and Religion, and the Northern Plains Ethics Institute.

Parking is available along the street and in the south side parking lot or alleyway.

FOUR MAMET PLAYS FEATURED IN MSUM THEATRE SIGNATURE SERIES
MSUM’s Theatre Arts program launches its first Signature Series next week featuring the work of David Mamet.

The Signature Series also features the work of MSUM theatre arts students and faculty working together as directors, actors, and designers, allowing students a deeper, more intense theatre training.

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet is one of a handful of American playwrights whose work has found almost as much success on the screen as it has on the stage. Mamet draws upon his personal experiences to write spare, dark dramas littered with characters who become victims of the various myths of American culture: economic success, romance, and family.

Tickets are: Adults $8, Faculty/Staff/Seniors $6, Tri-college $5, MSUM free with ID. Call the MSUM Box Office for more information. 477-2271

Showing Wednesday and Friday, April 19 and 21 starting at 7:30 p.m. on the Roland Dille Center for the Arts Gaede Stage:

Sexual Perversity in Chicago
Directed by Cole Flaat
This play spans a couple of months in the lives of four young people, Bernie and Joan, seemingly sexually knowledgeable but who really don't know the score; and Danny and Deborah, quieter and less assertive. Yet it is the latter two who come together, if only briefly. Their courtship is funny and fretful, but it is they not Bernie and Joan who make love. In the end, Deborah is back rooming with Joan and Danny is back girl watching with Bernie.

The Woods
Directed by Erin Wencl
Ruth and Nick are two young lovers who spend a night in a cabin in the woods. During the play a whole anatomy of the relations of men and women in love is laid out. Both are euphoric, but love takes them different ways. The sense of being loved turns her outward; she talks nonstop about many different things surrounding them, but Nick does not seem to care; all he sees is Ruth and he takes her inside to make love. Later, practically all is destroyed between them. He turns fretful, fearful; after desire is appeased she becomes the thinnest wisp against a threatening world to him. Her efforts to maintain their kingdom disintegrate as he turns in on himself. The closeness between them conceals an immense distance; they have a violent quarrel and she prepares to leave. Suddenly they cling to each other without joy or hope, simply from need.

Showing Thursday and Saturday, April 20 and 22 starting at 7:30 on the Roland Dille Center for the Arts Gaede Stage:

Edmond
Directed by Ben Mattson
This play has been described as a sort of reverse image morality play; whereas Everyman went on a journey in search of his salvation, Mamet's everyman (the title character) here descends into the maelstrom of big city degradation in search of sexual gratification. "EDMOND describes a world in which morality is tangential, in which there seems to be no moral feelings, only brutal, cruel ones, no concern for others, only selfishness and self interest." Women's Wear Daily

Oleanna
Directed by Craig Ellingson
A college student, Carol drops by her professor's office in an effort to gain his help to do better in class. As the first meeting progresses, the two discuss the nature of understanding and judgment in society, as well as their very own natures and places in our society. When next they meet we find that a report has been filed to the tenure committee. Carol has joined a "group" and has decided that John sexually harassed her during their first meeting. Their second meeting dissects the first; every word, every nuance of the first meeting has been twisted into something else. Or has it? John's unsuccessful attempts to convince Carol to retract her accusation escalate to a more dangerous level. The third meeting, one the court officers warned against, climaxes violently leaving John and Carol both physically and emotionally devastated.

MSUM HOSTS 27th ANNUAL HEALTH FAIR APRIL 5
MSUM will host its 27th annual spring health fair from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday, April 5 in Comstock Memorial Student Union ballroom.

Besides a variety of over 50 health booths, the fair will also offer live music and dancing along with free hearing, blood sugar, body fat and cholesterol testing along with derma scans to analyze skin damage from the sun.

A free complete cholesterol testing (HDL, LDL and triglycerides) begins at 8 a.m. in the ballroom, but requires a 12-hour fast previous to the test.

United Blood Services will also be conducting a blood drive during the event, sponsored by Hendrix Health Center and MSUM’s Peer Health Promotion Educators.

DEAN’S LECTURE APRIL 6 RELIVES HISTORY OF MSUM’S CAMPUS SCHOOL
Steve Grineski, Foundations of Education, presents a Dean’s Lecture at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 6 in the Weld Hall Glasrud Auditorium. His topic: “The Way We Were: Looking Back At The Campus School From 1888-1972.”

Griniski said an important part of MSUM’s history is the 84 years the university was home to a K-12 Campus School. The school had three different campus homes: Old Main (1888-1908), the Model School Building (1908-1930) and Lommen Hall (1932-1972).

The school staff, he said, enjoyed a fine reputation for caring about its students, developing innovative curricula and providing varied educational programs.

“For example, parents placed their newborn children on waiting lists so there would be space in the Model School Building when they became of school age,” Grineski said.

Several photographs, dating back to 1880s, will be shared to tell the Campus School story. Some include a May Pole dance from 1880s; classroom scenes from the Model School Building (1908-1932) and Lommen Hall (1932-1972); the one-room rural schools that college students taught at and lived in between 1917 and 1951; a 1945 field trip to learn about military planes; a parade the Baby Dragon band marched in during the 1950’s; 1960s programming for children attending the Early Childhood Education Center; 1960s and 1970s clubs and sports from the Campus High School; and university students who completed their student teaching at the Campus School.

ANIMALS & LITERATURE EXHIBIT, READINGS DOWNTOWN THURSDAY
A group of MSUM students in an “Animals in Art and Literature” course will host an exhibition of artwork and readings from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, April 13 at the Red Raven Espresso Parlor, 14 Roberts St., downtown Fargo. It’s free and open to the public.

WEDNESDAY COLLOQUIUM LOOKS AT THE WOMEN’S BIOETHICS PROJECT
Michelle Malott, Biosciences, will present a Women's Studies Colloquium On "The Women's Bioethics Project" at noon Wednesday, April 5 in the Women’s Center, MacLean Hall 171.

The Women’s Bioethics Project is the leading nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy think tank dedicated to ensuring that women’s vioces, health concerns, and unique life experiences strongly influence ethical issues in health care and biotechnology. Women’s voices, perspectives, and experiences generally are not adequately represented in the current bioethical debates, public policy decisions, or in academic research. Women can neither rely on nor expect men to represent the entire range of human experience and perspective. The talk will discuss the development, organization and activities of the Women's Bioethics Project.

ROSE BAKKE TO DIRECT PROSPECT RESEARCH FOR MSUM ALUMNI FOUNDATION
Rose Bakke has been named Director of Prospect Research for the MSUM Alumni Foundation.

The new position will provide research services to support the fundraising efforts of the Alumni Foundation. Working with development professionals, she'll help identify and learn all necessary information about prospects, with a goal of cultivating those sources and increasing major gifts to the Foundation.

She holds an undergraduate degree in Mass Communications from MSUM and is pursuing a masters degree in liberal arts here.

Bakke began her career at MSUM in 1990 at the university bookstore, then moving to the Records and Admissions Offices. For the past two years she's served as an administrative assistant to the Executive Vice President in the MSUM Alumni Foundations Office.

LAVENDER EDITOR SPEAKS HERE TUESDAY IN CENTER FOR BUSINESS
Stephen Rocheford, president and CEO of Minneapolis-based Lavender, which bills itself as Minnesota's GLBT magazine, speaks at 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 4 in MSUM’s Center for Business. It’s a Campus Activities Board event. (free)

REAL WORLD STAR ON CAMPUS THURSDAY
Real World Austin star Danny Jamieson is on stage in MSUM’s student union ballroom at 8 p.m. Thursday, April 6 in a Campus Activities Board event. (free)

ESSAYIST, POET FEATURED IN MCGRATH SERIES APRIL 10
Susan Carol Hauser, an essayist and poet who teaches writing at Bemidji State University, will read from her work at 8 p.m. Monday, April 10 in the MSUM Library Porch as a feature of the Tom McGrath Visiting Writers Series.

Her books on natural history, literary nonfiction and poetry include Sugartime: The Hidden Pleasures of Making Maple Syrup, with a Primer for the Novice Sugarer and Full Moon: Reflections on Turning Fifty, (free)

MSUM JUNIOR TO ATTEND SMITHSONIAN TRAINING PROGRAM
Jayme Job, an MSUM junior anthropology major (archaeology emphasis), is one of among 21 students from across the country selected for the Smithsonian’s Research Training Program. Annually between 200-400 students apply for participation in the program.

The Research Training Program is a 10-week summer program for currently enrolled undergraduate students interested in a career in the biological, geological or anthropological sciences. Students partner with a Smithsonian scientist to investigate a natural history research topic as well as participate in a series of lectures, workshops, demonstrations, behind-the-scenes tours, and field trips. Research is conducted in-residence at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. Students are provided a $3,000 stipend plus travel and research support.

Job’s research advisor will be Dr. Eric Hollinger, an archaeologist in the Department of Anthropology at the National Museum of Natural History. Their research will focus on a comprehensive examination of catlinite, a red pipestone known for its prehistoric and historic roles in the religious, economic, artistic, and sociopolitical lives of Native Americans.

Job, originally from Jamestown, N.D., is an Honors Apprentice Scholar who has conducted research at MSUM’s Archaeology Lab for the past three years under the direction of anthropology Professor Mike Michlovic. Her research includes work on the ceramics of the prehistoric Sprunk site of North Dakota, the historic site of Moorhead, and currently, with a student research grant, the Devils Lake-Sourisford burial complex of North Dakota and South-Central Canada.

She has presented her work at MSUM’s Student Academic Conference in poster format, and will do so again in April. In the fall, she will present her final report at the Plains Anthropology Conference in Topeka, Kansas. Job has excavated at both the Sprunk site and the historic Moorhead site, and worked last summer as an intern for the North Dakota State Historical Society. Her academic interests include ceramics, ideology, Greek archaeology, Mesoamerican archaeology, and Classical Studies. Upon graduating, she plans to attend graduate school for classical art and archaeology.

Job is a member of the GEO-Club, the Archaeology Club, Alpha Lambda Delta and Phi Kappa Phi Honor Societies, the National Residence Hall Honorary, and the 2005 Homecoming Court. Her grandparents are Quentin and Gay Zimmerman, Jamestown, N.D.