Ready new major? Why Metro State should level up on game studies
Game on! Student wants to give game studies extra life and make it a major at Metro State.
Chile is announced as the guest of honor country for the 2019 festival at the awards and closing ceremony for the Guadalajara International Film Festival on March 16, 2018.
Photo by Tonatiuh Figueroa / Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadalajara
Screenwriting major to jury Guadalajara International Film Festival
Student wins opportunity to join the jury of an international film festival in Mexico.
The stage is set on opening night of “From Behind the Sun” at the Whitney Theater in Minneapolis on Friday, Feb. 21, 2019. The play is a co-production of Metropolitan State University and Minneapolis Community and Technical College.
Photo by Margot Barry
Theater department premieres play revealing racist housing policies of the past
A joint production of Metro State’s Theater Underground and MCTC puts the spotlight on the racist housing policy called redlining---and shares the playwright's remarkable family history. "Behind the Sun" premieres Feb. 21.
Professor Suzanne Nielsen in her Midway office in St. Paul on Feb. 1, 2019.
Photos by Eli Bartz
Closing the circle: New creative writing professor journeys from student to staff to faculty
Suzanne Nielsen was recently appointed to what she calls her “dream job," as an assistant professor in Metro State's creative writing department.
Supporters of legalized marijuana march in the MayDay parade on Bloomington Avenue in Minneapolis on May 7, 2017.
Photo by Tony Webster/Flickr Creative Commons
Legislature’s hazy language makes legal pot look dubious
Student clears the air on likelihood of legal marijuana in Minnesota this year.
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Read it and weep: Wipe out winter woes with librarian reading recommendations
Feeling weather-beaten? Metro State librarians endorse the best books to take your mind off meteorological conditions (and midterms).
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STEM students discover ‘secrets’ to super scores and good grades
Metro State STEM students learned the mightiness of metacognition from an expert's lecture. STEM Association members meet up monthly to enrich their studies in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
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Counseling graduate students focus on dual diagnosis of mental illness and addiction
Graduate students in Metro State's co-occurring disorders recovering counseling program share a common mission: to shatter the stigma of mental illness and addiction.
David Bowen, center, G.E. Patterson and Teo Nguyen discuss Nguyen's "Untitled I" with visitors at the newly reopened Minnesota Museum of American Art in St. Paul on Dec. 15, 2018. Patterson teaches creative writing at Metropolitan State University.
Photo by Margot Barry
The M claims new museum space in downtown St. Paul
Metro State community faculty member G.E. Patterson served as guide to explorers of the new home of the Minnesota Museum of American Art in downtown St. Paul.
Requesting student conference funds is no fun
Student describes the bureaucratic hell of seeking SAFAC money.