Northwest Minnesota Foundation shares 2020 financial impacts during State of the Foundation event
During a State of the Foundation event held Tuesday, officials from the Northwest Minnesota Foundation shared how the organization carried on with regular initiatives while also providing support as the coronavirus pandemic hit. 12:22 pm, Feb. 5, 2021 ×
Northwest Minnesota Foundation President and CEO Karen White described the organization as a house with two sides. One is focused on philanthropic initiatives while the other has several programs dedicated to areas of need. Submitted screenshot.
BEMIDJI The Northwest Minnesota Foundation began in troubling times and this past year it had to go back to its roots and once again help communities through immense issues.
Little Falls graduate releases independent film
“All for the Best: How to Make a Musical During a Global Pandemic” is set to be released Saturday, Jan. 30, for a free viewing on YouTube, with a special live-streamed premiere and question and answer session at 7 p.m. Friday.
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Little Falls Summer Musical rehearsed and performed the summer 2020 production of “Godspell” outdoors and socially distanced. Submitted Photo
LITTLE FALLS A nonprofit film titled “All for the Best: How to Make a Musical During a Global Pandemic” is set to be released Saturday, Jan. 30, for a free viewing on YouTube, with a special livestreamed premiere and question-and-answer session at 7 p.m. Friday.
Psychology professor Dr. Carmen Westerberg analyzes sleep EEG data at Northwestern University in 2009. Photo courtesy of Dr. Carmen Westerberg
After dedicating years of education to brain research and psychology, Dr. Carmen Westerberg, an associate psychology professor at Texas State, was awarded $300,000 to fund her upcoming study exploring the effects of sleep on memory retention and formation.
The funds for the study were granted by the McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience, which grants up to four awards annually for studies in Memory and Cognitive Disorders, hoping to push psychologists toward scientific improvements in human health and memory. These scientists are addressing questions related to how general anesthesia and sleep impact memory, and how memory works at the basic level, Ming Guo, chair of the McKnight awards committee says in a press release. Together, we aim to understand the underlying neurobiology of memory and
This interview features award-winning author and university professor Valerie Miner. A longtime visitor and now resident of Mendocino County, Valerie will be reading from and discussing her fifteenth book, Bread and Salt: Stories.
Valerie Miner is the award-winning author of fifteen books. Bread and Salt is her fourth collection of stories. Her latest novel is Traveling with Spirits. Other novels include After Eden, Range of Light, A Walking Fire, Winter’s Edge, Blood Sisters, All Good Women, Movement: A Novel in Stories, and Murder in the English Department. Her short fiction books include Abundant Light, The Night Singers and Trespassing. Her collection of essays is Rumors from the Cauldron: Selected Essays, Reviews and Reportage. In 2002, The Low Road: A Scottish Family Memoir was a Finalist for the PEN USA Creative Non-Fiction Award. Her short fiction collections, Trespassing and Abundant Light were each Finalists for the Lambda Literary Awards