College-wide featured stories
What's in your backpack?
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As a freshman, Samantha Ehrenberg, ’14, a mechanical engineering major, spent two weeks in Guatemala helping install a water filtration device.
You, too, can translate ancient documents
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University of Minnesota researchers are employing technology and the discerning eyes of tens of thousands of volunteers around the world to decipher texts salvaged from that ancient trash pile.
Digital Technology Center makes progress through partnerships
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Part of the College of Science and Engineering, the DTC launched in 1997 to support the region’s digital technology industry.
On the move with Cyclopath
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Cyclopath, a navigational aide for bikers in the seven-county metro area, has gone mobile (phone) and it’s on the move to expand its collective navigational prowess to greater Minnesota.
Grad student develops 'geowiki' for cyclists
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Computer science graduate researcher Reid Priedhorsky has developed a new tool that stands to make bicycle journeys more expedient and more enjoyable.
Advanced imaging techniques provide new clues to HIV infection
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Researchers from the University of Minnesota’s Institute of Technology and the National Institutes of Health’s National Cancer Institute are using advanced imaging techniques to visualize how a key part of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) changes shape after binding to infection-fighting antibodies.
New IT Webcam lets you visit campus on your computer
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Over the next few weeks, campus will be buzzing with activity, and you can see it all from your own computer. Check out our new Institute of Technology live streaming Webcam that overlooks the University’s Northrop Mall. Users can control the direction of the camera and a powerful 25x optical zoom.
Controversial software freedom activist to speak at the U of M on Oct. 21
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Controversial free software advocate Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation and the GNU project, will speak at the University of Minnesota at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 21 in room 175, Willey Hall, 225 19th Ave. S., Minneapolis. The event is free and open to the public.
Researchers find that online interactive gaming communities are providing new ways to study human behavior
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A research study by University of Minnesota computer science professor Jaideep Srivastava and colleagues from across the country shows that online, interactive gaming communities are now so massive that they mirror traditional communities. These findings are creating a new evolution of social science research where researchers are able to study human behavior using the game.
New online chemistry course offers students greater flexibility
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For months last year, U chemistry instructor Michelle Driessen dreaded the lectures for her fall 2009 class, Introductory Chemistry. It’s not that she doesn’t love to teach. It’s just that she knew she’d be teaching in a room with no students.