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Why have Minnesota's future Nobel Prize winners left?

Why have Minnesota's future Nobel Prize winners left?

You may have just seen the infographic of where the Nobel Prize science winners have come from, and that this year’s two Nobel economics winners once worked at the University of Minnesota. Reed Carpenter of Bloomington makes this observation through our Public Insight Network: Over the past few years four Nobel prize winners in economics…
by Alex Friedrich

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Infographic: Where the Nobel Prize science winners have worked

Infographic: Where the Nobel Prize science winners have worked

This is just a shot of the cool interactive graphic over at The Wall Street Journal. It’s just about the science winners from research institutions, but you can see what countries they’re from, and the institutions where they worked.
by Alex Friedrich

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Notes in the Margins: Stuttering, radio stations and taxing colleges

Stutterer Speaks Up in Class; His Professor Says Keep Quiet His classroom experience underlines a perennial complaint among stutterers, that society does not recognize the condition as a disability, and touches on an age-old pedagogical — and social — theme: the balance between the needs of an individual and the good of a group. (The New…
by Alex Friedrich

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The Inver Hills class that ditches fancy learning methods

The Inver Hills class that ditches fancy learning methods

After reading repeated articles about the newest, most efficient high-tech ways to learn, it’s almost startling to hear Inver Hills music instructor Andrew Martin tell me: We don’t take notes. We don’t read music. We learn by rote memorization. I’m in his class, where students learn how to play Trinidadian steel drums. After just eight…
by Alex Friedrich

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Which instructor would you give the last seat on your life raft to?

Which instructor would you give the last seat on your life raft to?

MPR Photo / Alex Friedrich Math: The root of it all? Now here’s an event that shows some intellectual playfulness: The Life Raft Debate. It pits a handful of instructors against each other in an attempt to determine which is most valuable to society. The scenario (according to the program): There has been a nuclear…
by Alex Friedrich

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What the Inver Hills president wants to do with the college

What the Inver Hills president wants to do with the college

I’ve had a chance to talk with President Tim Wynes. Good interview – low key, but engaged and with a sense of humor. Seems to make sense, considering his background. Chancellor, Iowa Valley Community College District Executive dean of governmental affairs, grants and college research and director of development, Indian Hills Community College General counsel…
by Alex Friedrich

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One way Inver Hills students can get a sense of community and learn from it

One way Inver Hills students can get a sense of community and learn from it

I’m in a photography and writing class, and there seems to be more cohesiveness than first meets the eye. In front of the class of 25 are photography instructor Paul Wegner and writing-and-research-skills instructor Lisa DuRose, who are tag-teaming in a program called “The Observant Eye.” Wegner is discussing the work and themes of photographer Sally…
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My arrival and breakfast at Inver Hills Community College

My arrival and breakfast at Inver Hills Community College

When I drive onto the Inver Hills Collegecampus this morning, I find it’s quite different from the other two community colleges I’ve visited so far. Unlike Saint Paul College and South Central, which have essentially one main building where most things take place, Inver Hills is much more spread out. I have to drive past…
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Blogging today from Inver Hills Community College

Blogging today from Inver Hills Community College

I’m off this morning to Inver Grove Heights to spend the day at Inver Hills Community College. It’s my third community college, and so far may be the one with the most campus life — even as it sits a little isolated from the rest of the community. (It’s right near the intersection of Minnesota…
by Alex Friedrich

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Former Bemidji State University president dies at 86

From The Bemidji Pioneer via MPR’s Minnesota Today: The man who was once dubbed “Bemidji’s best friend” has died. Lowell “Ted” Reno Gillett, former Bemidji State University president and founder of the Joint Economic Development Commission, died Sunday morning at Sanford Bemidji Medical Center. He was 86 years old. Memorial services will be held at…
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