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Tapping talent
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If you had asked Laura Fletcher a few years back what she would be doing the summer after her senior year, chances are she wouldn’t have said, “solving problems and saving thousands of dollars for a wastewater treatment plant.” Yet, that’s exactly what she did.
Students collaborate to bring low-cost solar energy to Nicaragua
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When electrical engineering student Patrick Delaney was in Nicaragua last December conducting research for a senior design project, he spent a few minutes helping a family in a remote mountainous region fix a nonfunctioning solar-energy panel
U team to compete in World Solar Rally
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The University of Minnesota Solar Vehicle Project (UMNSVP) will head to Taiwan in September to participate in the 2006 World Solar Rally.
The honor of a lifetime
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If the U.S. Senate is, as it has been called, “the most exclusive club in the world,” the National Academy of Sciences must be the second. It elects members from the cream of the the country’s scientific crop, and this year it added two from the University of Minnesota: Don Truhlar, chemistry, and David Kohlstedt, geology and geophysics.