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For CSE grad student, soft robotics plus smart fabric equals huge potential
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In the College of Design’s Wearable Technology Lab, electrical engineering Ph.D. student Alireza Golgouneh helps design electrical components for smart garments, from wearable assistive devices and exoskeletons to pressurized astronaut suits.
CSE junior advocates for underrepresented in STEM
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Grace Hansen co-founded the Green Girls STEM Foundation to foster diversity in science and engineering and encourage youth to explore robotics.
Ilsa Shobe: Future doctor, Olympic hopeful, CSE student
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Biomedical engineering student Ilsa Shobe—completing her degree remotely from Salt Lake City, Utah, as she trains for the 2026 Winter Olympics—is using physics to help the U.S. speedskating team skate more efficiently.
Yutong Pang’s secret to finding sustainable solutions
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After discovering the key to the technology behind sustainability startup Låkril Technologies, chemical engineering graduate student Yutong Pang is ready to bring more chemistry applications to market.
Computer science senior bridges the STEM gap
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Swati Rampalli, who receives the E. Reuben and Gladys Flora Grant Scholarship and the Maximilian N. Lando Scholarship, is introducing underrepresented kids to science and tech fields.
Displaced in Scotland, CSE student uses local landscape to raise awareness about climate change
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When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in 2020, earth and environmental sciences Ph.D. student Max van Wyk de Vries turned an unfortunate situation into a science outreach project on climate change.
College exceeds three-year enrollment growth plan
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This fall, CSE welcomed 1,453 new first-year students—the largest freshman class in history and a 26 percent increase from 2018—despite the pandemic.
CSE grad student Jabari Jones advocates for equitable geoscience
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Jones, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, works racial and environmental justice into his research and outreach activities at the University of Minnesota.
For CSE student, climate change solutions are bigger than electric cars
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Electrical engineering senior Amethyst O’Connell hopes to fight global warming while addressing both transportation and racial inequities.
CSE student combines physics with biology to tackle Chronic Wasting Disease
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Peter Christenson, an electrical engineering Ph.D. student and recipient of the U of M’s Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship, is developing a means to more efficiently and quickly detect the disease.