Department news
CS&E Sponsors Local Team for 2024 FIRST® Robotics World Championship
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Potential Energy is an FTC team composed of Mounds View High School students, and is one of four Minnesota teams advancing to the World Championship. CS&E is pledging $1,000 to help fund the trip.
CS&E’s Yao-Yi Chiang and Jina Kim Named to First DEI Committee for ACM SIGSPATIAL
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After the success of the networking events in 2022 and 2023, John Krumm, the president of SIGSPATIAL, decided to increase DEI efforts moving forward and appointed Chiang as the first chair of this new committee.
Meet the 2023-24 CS-IDEA Committee
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Our mission is to to attract and retain diverse students, staff, and faculty in computer science and engineering and help all students, staff, and faculty thrive within the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Minnesota.
Two professors are leveling the field in computing research
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Through Google's exploreCSR program, CS&E professors Maria Gini and Shana Watters are exposing students historically marginalized in computing to research.
#CelebrateFirstGen: Eric Zhong Fritsche
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B.S. student Eric Zhong Fritsche is one of the 1 in 4 students at the University of Minnesota to be the first in their family to attend college.
Computer science senior is closing the STEM gap
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Maximilian N. Lando Scholarship recipient Swati Rampali co-founded the student group Code the Gap, which is introducing underrepresented kids to science and technology fields.
Research studio to put art first—with the help of science and technology
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The ArTeS Collaborative Research Studio will bring art, technology, and science together when it opens in spring 2022.
Incoming Ph.D student wins Out to Innovate's Avangrid Scholarship
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Zahara Spilka aspires to a career in animation and hopes to create accurate depictions of different races, body types, religions, genders, and sexualities.
Meet the 2021-22 CS-IDEA Committee
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Our mission is to to attract and retain diverse students, staff, and faculty in computer science and engineering and help all students, staff, and faculty thrive within the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Minnesota.
New research space to center the arts in interdisciplinary collaborations
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CS&E is a partner in the ArTeS research collaborative, a tech-infused space to address questions through a creative lens.