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Inventing Tomorrow Fall 2021

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In our Fall 2021 issue, we explore how the small can often have a big impact.

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STUDENT FEATURE

CSE student Andrew Surine poses with a bug on his hand outside the Bell Museum

A little goes a long way

Students turn to insects, plants, and quantum modeling to tackle monumental issues.

ALUMNI FEATURE

Little details, big deal

Alumni offer cybersecurity tips and insights into the new James Webb Space Telescope.

FACULTY FEATURE

CSE Professor Jake Bailey in a research vessel

The science of small

Experts in nanotoxicology, transmission electron microscopy, and geomicrobiology tell us why their work matters.

Special section: Campaign update

We recently finished our 10-year Driven campaign! Our college received gifts of all sizes to many areas in our college. Donors worldwide supported everything from the most obvious, like a building renovation, to the not so noticeable, such as a child’s dream to become a scientist, engineer, or mathematician.

Here are a few highlights.

Dean's message

Tech Digest

Andy Shafer (Sironix advisory board member), Paul Dauenhauer (Sironix cofounder and UMN faculty member), Christoph Krumm (Sironix CEO and cofounder), and Andy Gilicinski (Sironix advisory board member)

Alumni news

Retrospect: St. Patrick was an engineer?

The origins of CSE Week, a longstanding College of Science and Engineering tradition, have less to do with science and more to do with a particular Irish saint.

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Fall 2021 Inventing Tomorrow magazine cover

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Small inventions. Big impact.

Implantable pacemakers. The Black Box. Retractable seatbelts. For more than 100 years, College of Science and Engineering inventions have shown that just because something is small, or inconspicuous, doesn’t mean it can’t have enormous significance.

So it is with the CSE Alumni Scholarship. Gifts large and small come together to have an outsize effect on the lives of our students so that one day, they too can make their own enormous impact on our world.

Your gift makes a difference.
Learn how on the CSE giving page.

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