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Southwest Minnesota State University's Celebrate Science Week presentations will go on as usual this week. The work of the students will just be shown a bit differently, is all.

A group of Southwest Minnesota State University current and past employees have banded together in an ambitious project to sew masks for new students who will arrive on campus for Move-in Day on August 20.

Sariah Cheadle made SMSU Theatre history at the recent Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KCACTF) Region V event in Sioux Falls by being the first SMSU student to ever take first in an award category.

A trio of Southwest Minnesota State University academic programs will be offered on the campus of Lake Superior College (LSC) in Duluth starting in the fall semester, 2020.

Six individuals will receive Alumni Association awards as part of Homecoming 2020, with a theme of "Mustangs Come Together — Six Feet Apart."

Ever wonder why people like shopping at thrift stores? So did SMSU junior Hanna Vos. Vos is a Kingsley, Iowa, native and this year's Undergraduate Research Conference Library Research Award winner. She earned a $250 award for her research project entitled "The Sociology of the Secondhand Shopper."

To protect the health and safety of students and employees from the threat of COVID-19, Southwest Minnesota State is requiring a mandatory self-assessment of all employees, students, contractors/vendors and visitors prior to entering campus buildings starting on Monday, August 10.

Southwest Minnesota State University Professor of History Dr. Jeff Kolnick, a tireless advocate of inclusion, equity and underrepresented populations, is the first recipient of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Humanitarian Award.

An experienced nurse and teacher is the newest face within the RN to BSN program. Faith Johnson joins the faculty on a fixed-term basis, replacing Nancyruth Leibold, who is on sabbatical.

Little did Don Stanwick know then, but that first food service job busing tables at Tony's Pizza in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, as a 15-year-old would be a springboard to a career in the industry.