Homecoming: Dog Eat Dog

Show your school spirit and love for UMD. There’s lots to love this year, including a bonfire with a free barbeque, tailgate parties, men’s hockey, and volleyball join the traditional football game. The 50th reunion class will be back to enjoy the fun. Get the spirit: keep voting for Bob Neilson, Coach of the Year. www.d.umn.edu/homecoming/   Read More Here

UMD Debuts YouTube Channel

UMD faculty, staff and students are using video to communicate. From research, to the arts, to students having fun, UMD’s new YouTube Channel reaches out to an international audience. Heading the list of most watched UMD videos is one in which Jean (Rudy) Perrault, violin faculty and director of UMD Symphony Orchestra, plays a violin solo in the Weber Music Hall. UMD YouTube channel.   Read More Here

Students Support Alumni Office

Two UMD students, Wayne Gatlin III and Tim Rahkola, the first two alumni scholarship winners, are making recommendations to the UMD Alumni Board of Directors about how the Alumni Association can reach out to young grads. The two men are sharing their thoughts and perspectives about Facebook, Linked In, and other Web 2.0 interactive ways to communicate with UMD alumni.   Read More Here

Jim Johnson: A Coach for Coaches

Following an impressive hockey career at UMD and in the NHL, Jim Johnson '85 has turned his attention to the art and science of coaching. He and three partners have developed an e-learning system that instructs coaches on how to teach young people important fundamental skills and game concepts in hockey, baseball, soccer, football, basketball, and lacrosse.   Read More Here

Reengineering the Iron Range

The Iron Range/Graduate Engineering Education Program is new at UMD this year. It offers an advanced engineering degree to residents of Minnesota's Iron Range. These upper division/graduate engineering courses are designed to meet the needs of unemployed professionals who need to maintain their licenses, upgrade their engineering skills, or broaden their areas of employability.   Read More Here

’36 Grad's Advice: Stay Active

Emeritus Alumni Board Member Janet Petersen has the secret for living long. “Stay active,” she says. This 95-year-old graduate from the Duluth State Teachers College golfs, writes poetry, and drives. Peterson, who was energetic in college, hasn’t slowed down. Not even after she married, had three daughters, and taught physical education at Duluth’s Denfeld High School.   Read More Here