Each week KUMD 103.3 FM covers numerous locally and internationally relevant topics and many times these stories have connections with our incredibly knowledgeable, resourceful and talented UMD community.
Here are just some of the stories KUMD aired in March featuring UMD people, places and events:
Mental Health Speak Out: YOUmatter says you're not alone
March 1, 2018: Social media gets a bad rap when it comes to cyber-bullying or just making people feel bad about themselves when their lives don't seem to measure up...
Olympics Flashback: Hindsight is 14K GOLD!!!
March 1, 2018: Back before John Shuster and Jessie Diggins won Olympic gold ... and even when people still thought Chad Salmela was a quiet, laid-back sports...
Olympics Flashback: Wax on, wax off ... and when
March 1, 2018: In 2014, then-Duluthian Jason Cork talked with KUMD's Mimmu Salmela about his role as an assistant coach for the USA men's cross-country ski team -...
Olympics Flashback: Here comes Diggins, indeed!
March 1, 2018: Four years before Jessie Diggins would learn about it first hand at the 2018 Winter Games, she talked with KUMD's Mimmu Salmela about how it feels to...
Olympics Flashback: "Here comes Diggins! Here comes Diggins!!"
March 1, 2018: Four years before he would set the Twitter-sphere alight with his calling of the 2018 Olympic cross-country skiing finish (˜Here comes Diggins!")...
Olympics Flashback: When a key to the Curling Club was a big deal
March 1, 2018: Back in 2014, John Shuster thought it was a big deal to have a key to the Duluth Curling Club, so he could get in to practice whenever he wanted.
Olympics Flashback: "Skill and speed is the strength of our game"
March 1, 2018: Duluth native Robb Stauber, who served as the head coach of the gold medal winning US Women's Olympic Hockey Team in PyeongChang, is a former pro...
Olympics Flashback: John (and Luke) Shuster on the road to the 2014 Winter Games
March 1, 2018: Back in 2013, Luke and John Shuster stopped by our studios to talk about John's securing his third spot on an Olympic curling team ...
Olympics Flashback: "This could be the best game I've ever played"
March 1, 2018: The USA Men's Curling team won the bronze in Torino in 2006 but Duluth's John Shuster is the only member of that group still playing on the team. In...
Olympics Flashback: John Shuster on curling
March 1, 2018: Chisholm native, Duluthian and a man who's played on four national championship teams since 2003, John Shuster breaks down curling for KUMD's Mimmu...
Olympics Flashback: Commentator Chad Salmela at Vancouver
March 1, 2018: Back in 2010, Chad Salmela had one Olympic commentating gig under his belt, at the 2006 Winter Games in Torino. Four years before he would make...
Recap: Don Ness Shows off the NorShor
March 5, 2018: For some, it was an emotional homecoming to a venue that hosted some of the most memorable moments from Duluth's music and arts scene from the '90s...
Student Views: Host Profile
March 5, 2018: This week on Student Views host Pavel Arkhipenkov shares the journey he began ago when he started this radio project on KUMD. The experience of...
Where's Art? with Annie Dugan: What constitutes capital "A" artwork?
March 5, 2018: Where's the best art opening this week? What shows are closing? Are there any calls-for-entries anywhere? Annie Dugan brings you a comprehensive look...
"I wanted to give my kids something to be proud of" (soon to be a major motion picture?)
March 6, 2018: Several of the most magical moments of the 2018 Winter Games were created by Minnesotans. The US Women's Hockey team beating Canada in the final game.
Where's Art? with Annie Dugan: Synesthesia week
March 12, 2018: Where's the best art opening this week? What shows are closing? Are there any calls-for-entries anywhere? Annie Dugan brings you a comprehensive look...
Sea Grant Files: World Water Day
March 13, 2018: The United Nation's World Water Day is coming up on March 22, 2018, a day to raise awareness of the finite nature of fresh water on earth. MN Sea...
Why thinking you're ugly is bad for you
March 13, 2018: Remember being a little kid and kissing yourself in the mirror? When did that stop - and why? UMD's recent Kiss the Mirror event decided to tackle the...
KUMD Album Review: Ingeborg Von Agassiz
March 14, 2018: Ingeborg Von Agassiz| O Giver of Dreams Duluth-based artist Ingeborg Von Agassiz is more than just a mouthful to pronounce. Von Agassiz, whose actual...
Green Visions: compost happens - now at UMD, too!
March 14, 2018: From adding fresh produce grown at UMD to today's rollout of compostable cups and straws, the U's Dining Services and Office of Sustainability are...
It's like a science fair for history
March 16, 2018: Twenty-five thousand kids across Minnesota put their history chops on display throughout the state earlier this year, and those winners are duking it...
Where's Art? with Annie Dugan: Talking about art week! (SLIDESHOW)
March 19, 2018: Where's the best art opening this week? What shows are closing? Are there any calls-for-entries anywhere?
Student Views: "Meaningful Change"
March 19, 2018: Today, Student Views host Pavel Arkhipenkov welcomes Legislative Relations Committee Director Jacob Griffiths to discuss UMD lobbying efforts and...
KUMD is Proud to Sponsor "Lets Talk MN" at the NorShor Theatre
March 20, 2018: LetsTalkMN.com is presenting a Mental Health Awareness concert featuring American country/blues musician Charlie Parr and the bluegrass/newgrass band...
"We're not going away" - students lead March for Our Lives Saturday
March 20, 2018: This Saturday, students and their families along with community members all over the country plan to March to end gun violence and mass shootings...
KUMD Album Review: Dessa
March 21, 2018: Dessa | Chime Doomtree member Dessa is here with her fourth album and its timing couldn't be any better. When she's not working on her evolving sound...
There's no need to fear - income tax help is here!
March 21, 2018: Caught between the conversion to filing taxes online and being unable to hire them done, folks without computers, confused by computers or just plain...
198 countries ratified a UN treaty to end discrimination against women. The U.S. isn't one of them.
March 22, 2018: The Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) is an international treaty adopted in 1979 by the United...
Secret identities: Who you are and who you pretend to be
March 23, 2018: If the whole point of online gaming is to assume another identity ... what difference does it make who you are IRL*? It turns out, it makes a lot of...
Where's Art? with Annie Dugan: Art potlucks, throwing eggs and x-ray vision
March 26, 2018: Where's the best art opening this week? What shows are closing? Are there any calls-for-entries anywhere? Annie Dugan brings you a comprehensive look...
Radio Gallery: Anne Labovitz
March 27, 2018: Anne Labovitz has continued to share updates about her artistic saga that is "122 Conversations." We look forward to the final exhibition coming to...
Sea Grant Files: Green Infrastructure
March 27, 2018: Water Resource Management and Policy Extension Educator for Minnesota Sea Grant, John Bilotta shares work and ideas to help manage storm water run...
KUMD Album Review: Shrimpnose
March 28, 2018: Shrimpnose | Sullen We’ve all had to face adversity in our lives in one way or another, but Shrimpnose may be proof that it takes time to conquer our...
Electric snowmobiles still out of reach but ...
March 28, 2018: People would just love snowmobiles if they didn't dislike them so much. They're noisy (think angry bees) and they can pollute up a storm. But UMD's...
"Stand up in whatever capacity you can": Hope and peace and promise 50 years later
March 30, 2018: Fifty years after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the year Nelson Mandela would have turned 100, Shades of Africa - Rise Up! at UMD...
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