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This March UMD Chancellor Lendley C. Black will be traveling to Arizona to meet UMD alumni and friends. With close to 900 UMD alumni calling the state home, Chancellor Black is looking forward to visiting Goodyear (Phoenix) on Monday, March 5 and Green Valley (Tucson) on Tuesday, March 6. If you are in Arizona please join us.

On Monday, March 5, two events are scheduled to be held in Goodyear at PebbleCreek. The day begins with an alumni and friends golf ...

In Vaxjo, Sweden, David Newkumet, a 1984 UMD graduate, teaches music theory and conducts choirs and ensembles in his second language, Swedish. Every year a musical group and a location is chosen for national broadcast, seen by about 1.5 million viewers. In 2009, Newkumet’s choir and the 12th-Century Växjö Cathedral were chosen for this honor.

Newkumet is the director of choral music for Växjö Katedralskola, a K-12 private school. He has conducted the city’s annual Lucia (pronounced ...

The University of Minnesota system presented UMD with the 2011 Equity and Diversity Outstanding Unit Award, recognizing UMD’s commitment to and accomplishments toward integrating equity and diversity into the campus culture. The award was accepted by UMD’s Chancellor Lendley C. Black at an event held in November at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus. The Humphrey School of Public Affairs received this award in was a 2010.

“During the past year,” said Kris Lockhart, associate vice president of ...

Creating jobs, producing fuel and food, and improving the environment is the focus of a partnership between the City of Silver Bay, MN and UMD’s Center for Sustainable Community Development (CSCD). The project will create VICTUS Farms, a facility that will house a self-contained food and energy generating eco-system made up of a greenhouse, fish tanks, and algae production areas.

VICTUS Farms’ process uses waste products from growing fish to serve as a natural nutrient source for plants ...

After an extensive national search yielding a strong pool of candidates, Dr. Andrea J. Schokker has been appointed UMD’s Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs.

“Dr. Schokker was selected because of her demonstrated record of administrative success and because of her innovative leadership at both UMD and Pennsylvania State University,” said UMD’s Chancellor Lendley C. Black. “Responses from faculty, staff, and students were overwhelmingly positive to Dr. Schokker. I am convinced that she is the best person at this particular time ...

The Minnesota Wild hockey organization is offering a great discount on tickets purchased by alumni of Minnesota colleges for their Saturday, February 11, 2012 game against the Columbus Blue Jackets at 7:00 PM at the Xcel Center.  Tickets are limited so order yours today! Lower level corners cost just $45 (normally $90) and club level costs $60 (normally $100!).

Click this link and enter the special offer code: WILD. 

Show your Bulldog pride on February 11 and wear your UMD ...

Joycelyn Dorscher, M.D., director of UMD’s Center of American Indian and Minority Health, was honored on Nov. 2 by the Duluth YWCA as a Woman of Distinction.
Dorscher was very pleased to receive the award. “It was a huge honor just to be nominated,” she said. Referring to her two-minute acceptance speech at the awards luncheon she noted, “I really tried to thank everybody. So many people have encouraged me throughout my career. Dr. Bob Powless, Dr. Lorentz Wittmers, and ...

Alan M. Johns, MD, MEd. was a member of the first class of UMD medical students who started their studies in the fall of 1972.  Alan is the beloved son of a librarian and a career army officer and moved to Duluth with his parents when he was in seventh grade.  After completing his public high school education he went to the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities campus to study chemical engineering.  Encouraged by professors at the newly opening medical school ...

The UMD Stores and the UMD Alumni Association have teamed up to offer a great discount and great opportunity for alumni. For every online sale using the promo code, one dollar is donated towards the UMD Alumni Scholarship, which is the first scholarship specifically for children and grandchildren of UMD alumni. The goal of the scholarship is to provide deserving students with significant financial support and leadership opportunities. To learn more about the scholarship follow ...

Frank McCray, Jr., who passed away early in 2011, grew up in the rural town of Chiefland, Florida as an African American in the segregated south.  He made his journey to Duluth with little more than the clothes on his back, the money in his pocket, and the determination of someone who read every book he was told he couldn’t or shouldn’t read; but he had no idea of the profound changes, challenges and ultimately the triumphs that awaited him ...