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Student Braden Kowalski kneels next to a robotic dog on a sidewalk on the University of Minnesota Duluth campus.

From hands-on computer science to natural resources fieldwork, Braden Kowalski found all the right tools at UMD.

Wordsmithing the Future

Madiha Shakil Mirza and her sister and mother smile at the camera in front of a sunny Duluth Aerial Lift Bridge. Madiha is wearing a cap and gown, while the other two are wearing white dresses.

UMD alumna is a trailblazer in AI, helping to build some of AI’s Large Language Models.

Improving reality

Brendan Rood directs a theatre student, who is wearing a full body motion capture suit, in the MMAD lab

Computer science student uses motion capture to augment reality

Beer and Bots

Robot Pepper speaks at the lab at UMD

Bringing Robots and Funny People Together, for Science

UMD Faculty awarded NSF grant lsikkink
A lush green aerial view of the UMD campus

A National Science Foundation Grant for $750,000 was recently awarded to professors Arshia Khan (Computer Science) and Anne Hinderliter (Chemistry and Biochemistry), both from UMD, and Sherri Turner (Educational Psychology) from UMTC for "Networking and Computing: Scholarships and Support for Computing Students." Most of the funds support students from groups that are under-represented in STEM fields, with the goal of helping them graduate and move into successful careers.

Unity and Understanding

Mural of George Floyd

Mahjur Ahmed receives the first UMD Scholarship in Memory of George Floyd, Jr. 

Big Data and the Pandemic creitan
corona virus model

Artificial Intelligence and what it can tell us about COVID-19.

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