ABERDEEN, S.D. – A husband and wife musical duo will perform an upcoming concert at Northern State University.

Dr. Kenneth Boulton and JoAnne Barry will present a recital of music for piano four-hands at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 11, in NSU’s Krikac Auditorium.

Featured on the program will be music by Emmanuel Chabrier, Florent Schmitt, Edward Elgar and Franz Schubert.

“We are very excited to present a program that combines some rarely performed gems with one of the true monuments of piano duet literature,” said Boulton, NSU dean of fine arts.

ABERDEEN, S.D. – Northern State University President Dr. Tim Downs has been named the recipient of TRIO’s 2018 Friend of ASPIRE Award.

Downs, who was nominated by NSU’s TRIO Student Support Services, received the award at a banquet on Monday at a conference in Missoula, Mont.

One individual is recognized each year by ASPIRE, the regional professional association of TRIO programs that includes North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado and Utah.

In a nomination letter, NSU TRIO SSS Director Laci… more

ABERDEEN, S.D. – Northern State University’s longtime Purchasing Director Earl Weisenburger has received the Distinguished Service Award from the National Association of Educational Procurement’s Great Plains Region.

The award is presented to someone who has put forth efforts in the region throughout their career to support others in educational procurement.

“This caught me totally by surprise,” Weisenburger said. “There are so many in the region that are also deserving of such an award. I can’t say enough on how the NAEP… more

ABERDEEN, S.D. – Three Northern State University faculty and staff members are part of an Aberdeen cohort attending bushConnect 2018, a day-long conference in Minneapolis on Monday aimed at building across differences.

Northern employees attending this diversity, equity and inclusion training are:

• Lara Nelson, director of the American Indian Circle Program
• Ioana Hojda, assistant director of international admissions
• Melinda Millermon, ESL instructor

All three are members of the… more

ABERDEEN, S.D. – Lindsey Friedrichsen will hold a senior recital at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 4, in Northern State University’s Krikac Auditorium.

Friedrichsen, the daughter of Stewart and Shirley Friedrichsen, grew up in Huron, graduating from Huron High School in 2015.

Friedrichsen, a music education major with an emphasis in voice, is a mezzo soprano. She will perform “Le Violette” by Alessandro Scarlatti; “Tanto Sospirero” by Pietro Paolo Bencini; “Il Mio Bel Foco” by Benedetto Marcello; “Auf Flügeln des Gesanges,” “Scheidend,” and “Frühlingslied” by… more

ABERDEEN, S.D. –Northern State University and Aberdeen Area Music Teachers Association (AAMTA) are hosting the local performance of students preparing for South Dakota Music Teachers Association (SDMTA) competitions taking place early November in Brookings, S.D.

Four student-pianists from the Aberdeen area are planning to compete, and will perform a portion of their competition repertoire on Oct. 13 in Berggren Recital Hall on the NSU campus, starting at 10 a.m. The… more

ABERDEEN, S.D. – Northern State University’s Beulah Williams Library will host a forum to discuss how individuals in smaller communities consume news – and how they protect themselves from misinformation.

The forum will be held at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 29, in the Williams Library Round Room. The event includes a panel of local communications professionals:

• Dr. Elizabeth Haller, NSU associate professor of English/department chair
• Megan Rosendahl and Scott Waltman, Aberdeen American News
• Heidi Marttila-Losure, Dakotafire Media
… more

ABERDEEN, S.D. –The Northern State University Music Department has invited Martina Švandrlíková, a music education doctoral student from Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic, to campus.

Švandrlíková will be staying in Aberdeen from Oct. 3 to Nov. 14 to study current trends, methods and structure of music education in the United States. 

During her appointment at NSU, Švandrlíková will attend and present at the South… more

ABERDEEN, S.D. – A satellite studio for South Dakota Public Broadcasting (SDPB) opened at Northern State University on Friday, September 14.

The satellite studio will allow SDPB local producers to interview campus staff, community leaders, state legislators or anyone who has a story to tell.

The studio also includes a digital recorder that will allow students, faculty and community members to come in and record podcasts or interviews, which can be easily edited and transferred to USB flash drives.

Connected through the campus network to the… more

ABERDEEN, S.D. – Northern State University has a larger freshman class this fall, and the university continues its trend of high student retention rates.

Northern has 339 freshman this year, according to figures released today from the South Dakota Board of Regents. That’s a nearly 5 percent increase from 324 in fall 2017.

Northern also boasts a freshmen to sophomore retention rate of 75 percent – the first time in at least 20 years the university has had three years in a row of retention rates over 70 percent.

“We’re immensely pleased to see the… more