College-wide featured stories
Anthony Vecchi: The great outdoors
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Anthony Vecchi chose to major in civil engineering after working on a research project on stormwater infiltration in manmade highway ditches, known as swales.
Mark Kroll (Math ’76, ME M.S. ’83, Ph.D. ’87)—Creative problem solver
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CSE alumnus Mark Kroll has spent his career asking how things can be improved through a lens of curiosity and technical education.
Ted Johnson (CSci ’82) - Design visionary
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Visio co-founder, Ted Johnson, says his career in computers started in junior high through a mixture of curiosity and luck.
Grant Erickson (EE ’96, MS ’98)—Making lives better
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Grant Erickson, principal engineer at Nest Labs, has no doubt that curiosity drives discoveries in science and creative solutions in engineering.
Kim Chaffin (ChemE Ph.D. ’99)—Passion for polymers
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Medtronic chemical engineer, Kim Chaffin, believes curiosity is the desire to study a problem deeply, with the goal to learn, not just for yourself, but for the benefit of society.
Gifts at Work: the Mississippi River
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The Mississippi River offers a rich source of research, recreation, and academic inspiration for University of Minnesota researchers.
Scholarship helps student become the first to attend college in her family
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Mathematics student Azira Rivera has time to get involved with campus organizations such as Society of Women Engineers, North Star STEM Alliance, and more thanks to a scholarship from CSE alumnus Richard Kruger.
Scholarship allows CSE student to minor in music
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The Robert F. Hartmann Scholarship allows computer engineering student, Jack Hessburg, an opportunity to pursue his music passion.
Scholarship helps CSE student show creative side
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Mechanical engineering student, Zoe Bohnen, credits Haxby Scholarship with allowing her to show her creative side.
Where can you walk to work? Study ranks cities for accessibility to jobs by walking
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In a new report from the U of M’s Accessibility Observatory, researchers ranked accessibility to jobs by walking in the 50 largest (by population) metropolitan areas in the United States.