The assistant professor in the College of Liberal Arts found that LLMs can accurately assess psychopathology from mere minutes of open-ended daily diary recordings, possibly revolutionizing psychiatric assessment.
Several new programs, initiatives and renovated spaces are ready to serve incoming and returning students.
The newly named Marilyn C. Nelson Hall modernized the nearly 30-year-old facility to meet today’s business needs, made possible by the fully donor-funded $40 million Connecting Carlson project.
As the higher education landscape changes, so too must the University’s brand.
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Feature Highlights
The Office for Community Engagement and Division of Science and Mathematics students partnered to distribute school supplies to K-12 students in need.
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As the higher education landscape changes, so too must the University’s brand.
The University of Minnesota’s new See, Hear, MN mobile truck is bringing vision and hearing assessments around the state.
Awards and Recognition Spotlights
Sixteen faculty members have been selected for the year-long initiative providing deep pedagogical support and co-design time necessary to integrate career-ready, community-engaged learning into the curriculum.
The College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences professor and Chief Science Officer of Jord BioScience released a first-of-its-kind soil biostimulant and received the AgTech Breakthrough Award a week after commercial launch.
College of Biological Sciences and Water Resource Center researchers are asking the public to rate 17 of what across the Twin Cities metro?
Ponds
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Lakes
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Streams
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What do you love most about your job?
"I love being part of a team that has transformed the polar regions from some of the least mapped places on Earth to the most mapped, enabling more efficient and diverse science."
Cathleen Torres Parisian
Engagement Lead for Polar Geospatial Center, Twin Cities campus
