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An old heating plant and dormitory will be demolished on the MSUM campus within the next couple of years.

  In Memoriam: Professor Emerita Glenis R. Long Glenis R. Long (fourth from left) at commencement The Graduate Center mourns the passing of Professor Emerita Glenis R. Long (Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences), who died on July 16, 2021.   A prolific scholar, Long specialized in otoacoustic emissions or sounds generated by the human cochlea (inner ear) and was known for combining mathematical modeling with laboratory research, which was rare. She was also involved in the development of bette...

  The Pandemic Wrenched Their Dissertation Plans. Catalyst Grants Are Easing the Challenges Jessica Fletcher, Dean Schafer, Megan Henriquez, and Kristena Newman Understanding how infections spread is especially important in light of a pandemic, and Ph.D. student Megan Henriquez (Anthropology) intends to do that with her dissertation on parasitic infections in capuchin monkeys. Ironically, though, the pandemic is wrenching her plans to travel to Costa Rica to collect samples. She had to cha...