College-wide featured stories
Tackling global food security
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Two CSE students are among only 10 students nationwide selected for a year-long internship as part of the Land O’Lakes, Inc. Global Food Challenge. They will explore sustainable ways to feed the world’s growing population.
Harrison Frisk: Grad student works to build better electronics
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Graduate student Harrison Frisk works to understand the relationships of graphene with other materials that could mean faster, smaller, and more efficient electronics.
Sam Finnegan: From Minnesota to Macedonia
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CSE student Sam Finnegan gained global experience by spending last summer in Macedonia as an intern modeling objects and machines in three dimensions using a software program.
Global Exposure
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CSE students are finding ways to gain global experience through new study abroad programs and opportunities.
Kelsey Harper: Exploring Belgium and Germany
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CSE mechanical engineering student Kelsey Harper traveled to Germany and Belgium during winter break as part of a Freshman Global Technical Seminar.
Maria Camila Merino Franco: Engineering for the environment
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Maria Camila Merino Franco, a bioproducts and biosystems engineering student, is passionate about using her degree to protect the environment.
Blindness does not stop theoretical computational chemist from achieving her goals
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Mona Minkara, a post-doctoral associate working with Chemistry Professor J. Ilja Siepmann, has made the impossible possible despite her blindness.
Mower County 4-H'er Natalie Sayles receives Schroeder Scholarship
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Meet Natalie Sayles, a recent graduate of Austin High School, 4-H alum from Mower County and 2015 recipient of the Ada and Helmuth Schroeder Scholarship from the Minnesota 4-H Foundation.
Zachary Tollefson finds chemistry “fun but challenging”
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A double major in chemistry and chemical engineering keeps Clifford I. and Nancy C. Anderson Scholarship recipient Zachary Tollefson busy, but he is enjoying every minute of it.
Students race solar car across the Australian Outback
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The University of Minnesota Solar Vehicle Project team finished fifth in the Cruiser Class of the 2015 World Solar Challenge, a 3,000-kilometer (1,864-mile) race across the Australian Outback.