Jeffrey Sharkey, UMD Computer Science Alum placed in the top 10 of the Google Android Developer Challenge and won an additional $275,000 prize. The final results were
announced last week, and he placed in the top 10 out of nearly 1,800 entrants. (photo courtesy MSU: Kelly Gorham)
Read a description of his "CompareEverywhere" shopping device.
The building is designed for the new Civil Engineering Program and will be an environmental "green building."
The state-of-the-art teaching/training center is designed to house large two-story labs providing "engineering on display." The structure will be the 6th new building to be constructed on the UMD campus since 2000. UMD held groundbreaking ceremonies July 11 for the $15 million Civil Engineering building on the north east corner of the campus just off St Marie Street.
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Civil Engineering Beginning Fall 2008
UMD will offer a new Bachelor of Science degree program in Civil Engineering beginning fall 2008.
The development of the Civil Engineering Program at UMD is in direct response to engineering personnel needs expressed by the private and public sectors in our region and the career aspirations of prospective students and their parents. Areas of focus were determined after consultation with engineering and manufacturing firms in Duluth and Greater Northeastern Minnesota.
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UMD Professor Is Real-Life Indiana Jones
Famous UMD Archeologist Is Featured on National Science Foundation Special Report "Archaeology from Reel to Real"
UMD Regents Professor Emeritus of Geoarchaeology, George "Rip" Rapp, is a real life Indiana Jones. His life's work compares in many ways to the swashbuckling hero of the latest hit movie "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull," starring Harrison Ford.
Professor Rapp is also one of seven international archaeologists, highlighted in the National Science Foundation's (NSF) new special on- line report, "Archaeology from Reel to Real," launched last week.
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TODAY: Sept 5th
Lecture: New Chemistry with Superelectrophiles
Oct 3rd
Academy of Science and Engineering
Oct 6th
Engineering Scholarship Banquet
