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New Resource for First-Generation College Students in Graduate School
Announcing the Leadership in Equity, Inclusion and Diversity (LEID) Fellowship
Making the Most of Your Time
The Graduate School has put together suggestions of how to focus on things you normally might not have the opportunity to do - whether it’s related to research, career advancement, or self-care.
COVID-19 and Graduate Education: FAQs
Just Write! Sessions Now Available to Graduate Students
Bring your laptop and come write with other graduate students in a quiet space
Announcing the 2019 Graduate School Best Dissertation Award Winners
One graduate student from each of four groups – arts and humanities, biological and life sciences, physical sciences and engineering, and social sciences and education – was chosen by faculty from the broad disciplinary area. Selections were based on the originality and importance of the research, as well as the potential for the student to make an unusually significant contribution to their field.
The (Un) Named Woman
Landscape Architecture graduate student Sydney Shea is investigating the gender gap found in public sculptures in her ongoing research project The (Un)Named Woman
University announces new partnership with African Institute for Mathematical Sciences
The University of Minnesota and the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) announced a new partnership today for exchanging knowledge and accelerating educational opportunities for talented African mathematicians. The University of Minnesota is one of only four universities in the United States who are AIMS academic partners. Founded in 2003, AIMS recruits Africa’s most talented university graduates and provides them with a series of intensive, cutting-edge courses in mathematics to enter technical professions or to pursue graduate studies in technical and scientific fields.
Page Receives Medal of Freedom
University of Minnesota alumnus and former Minnesota Supreme Court Justice Alan Page was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Friday, Nov. 16, at a special ceremony at the White House.