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Home Class Notes Archives About Contact Alumni Online Community Online Urgent care: A New Internship for Nursing and COVID Three hospitals in southern Minnesota this week began taking in nursing students in a rapid-response… [more] Scholarships in the Nick of Time In her home country of the Dominican Republic, Ashlie Polanco Medina at one point worked with a nonprofit… [more] Researchers Say Remote Voting is Ready. Are We? Just a few of many things that are considered personal, private and basically nobody’s business: Our… [more] Band of Gold Before they met, before they formed a band, before they married, Colin Scharf and Laura Schultz were… [more] Featured Articles Fall 2020 View PDF Version » Past Issues » Spotlight Urgent care: A New Internship for Nursing and COVID Three hospitals in southern Minnesota this week began taking in nursing students in a rapid-response move to help with nursing shortages and a surge in COVID hospitalizations. These students are enrolling through a Minnesota State Mankato winter nursing internship put in place within weeks and the first of its kind. “We just need more hands on deck is what it comes down to,” said alumni … Read full article » Scholarships in the Nick of Time In her home country of the Dominican Republic, Ashlie Polanco Medina at one point worked with a nonprofit company that built homes for the poor. It had a profound effect on her and sparked her interest in civil engineering, which eventually led her to Minnesota State Mankato. Junior Ashlie Polanco Medina was in a financial crisis that threatened the fate of her civil … Read full article » Researchers Say Remote Voting is Ready. Are We? Just a few of many things that are considered personal, private and basically nobody’s business: Our banking transactionsOur sessions with doctors and therapists.Our choices when voting. For the most part, the first two items are frequently and securely done online, particularly in the time of COVID and social distancing. Yet as news footage of people waiting in long lines for hours to cast … Read full article » Band of Gold Before they met, before they formed a band, before they married, Colin Scharf and Laura Schultz were a couple of grad students at Minnesota State Mankato missing the music they had been making in their respective hometowns. A meeting at a downtown hangout changed that, setting in motion a strong music and personal partnership. In ten years’ time, the two have become not only a married couple … Read full article » The Comeback As a youth ministry leader, Nick Tofteland had a fun idea for rewarding a fundraising drive that his church kids absolutely crushed: Cruising from one fast food joint to another in a Hummer limo. “It was a horrible, horrible March night. It was one of those nasty, sloppy storms that turned cold real fast,” he recalled. “So I’m hopping out of the car—you literally have to jump out of a Hummer, … Read full article » Tales from the Underground One highlight of “Cornfield Shipwreck,” a documentary airing on HBO, is alum Emily Ruoff preserving pickles. Reason being, those pickles are a century and a half old, part of a fascinating archeological dig in America’s heartland in the late 1980s. The documentary traces the excavation of the 171-foot Steamboat Arabia, which sunk on the Missouri River in 1856, three years after it was built in … Read full article » Family Skies It wasn’t just the flying part that made Tabitha Plasschaert choose to follow her mother’s career as a commercial jet pilot. It was seeing her mom so happy going to work. “Just seeing that growing up: A job you love to go to instead of dreading. That was a huge thing for me,” said Tabitha, a Minnesota State Mankato aviation student who recently received her private pilot’s license. She’s now … Read full article » The Moment on The Bridge Miles Kipper’s time at Minnesota State Mankato gave him two things he put to use on the I-35 bridge on May 31. One was an ability to tear through a mob. That came from years as a rugby player. The second was an immersion with other cultures, races and philosophies. That, too, came from rugby, as well as studying abroad, working around the country and growing up in Minneapolis. Kipper was … Read full article » Minnesota State Mankato News March 5: University Jazz Mavericks Concert Featuring Guest Artist David Halliday February 10, 2020 Concert is in Halling Recital Hall. March 1-2: ‘The Word Rises’ Choir Performance February 10, 2020 Concert is in Halling Recital Hall. March 16: Schmitz Lecture to Feature Women Leaders in Agriculture February 10, 2020 Lecture is in Ostrander Auditorium. Maverick Sports Mavericks in Medicine It’s too easy to accept the widespread belief that college athletes aren’t academically inclined. After all, permeated in our subconscious is everything pop culture has taught us about “jocks,” mashed up with the vexing stories coming out of major athletics programs on an all-too-regular basis. If you hope to hold on to those … Read more about Maverick Sports » Emeritus Profile ‘The’ Historian How far can curiosity carry you in life? In the case of Dr. William E. Lass, from a one-room country school in South Dakota during the Great Depression smack into writing the first comprehensive history of Minnesota State Mankato—finished when he was nearly 90 years old. The Lass … Read full article » Stay Connected Alumni Association Alumni Online Community Alumni Facebook Alumni Twitter Alumni LinkedIn RSS Class Notes Find out what your former classmates have being doing lately or send us your own update. We’d love to hear about your family, your career and any other updates you’d like to share. Go to Class Notes page » Submit a Class Note In This Issue Gavels and Gloves ‘Giving Gives Grief A Purpose’ What’s Up With That Guy? Generation K Mavericks on the Frontlines Closing the Food Gap President’s Welcome Dr. Richard Davenport Welcome to the online companion to the print version of Minnesota State Mankato’s TODAY magazine. Our goal is to provide you with more stories about this University, more often. You’ll also find the features from the new issue here. Check back often to keep current with the big ideas and real-world thinking happening at Minnesota State Mankato. Maverick Scene View all photos Maverick Moment Gage Towers Memories Pails of Paint I graduated Mankato HIgh School in 1964 and shortly thereafter enrolled in then Mankato State. One of my first jobs after High School was painting much of the interior of the Gage buildings, which was quite the experience. 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