Posts Tagged 'College of Education and Human Service Professions'

When UMD alumnus Jacob “Jack” Hautaluoma (’55) was approached to help conduct a feasibility study late last year on extracting metals, minerals, and oil from Afghanistan, he first wanted to know that the goal of the project was to improve the lives of the Afghan people and not to make a handful of foreign investors wealthy. “It had to be, not for our good, but for theirs – to do good for the Afghan people,” he said. His experiences from ...

Mike Malone, a 2008 graduate of the Labovitz School of Business and Economics, has developed a passion to connect young people to Duluth and show them that it is a “vibrant business community and a very cool town to live in.” Mike is an account manager for SwimCreative, a design, marketing, and web development firm in Duluth that was recently hired by UMD to produce six 15-second video spots highlighting its five colleges and athletics. The videos focus on ...

Linda LeGarde Grover, UMD alumna with degrees in History ’88 and Education ’95 and a UMD associate professor of American Indian Studies, has won the 2011 Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for Fiction for her debut short story collection, The Dance Boots. Grover is a member of the Bois Forte Band of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe in northern Minnesota, and is on the Board of Directors of the UMD Alumni Association. Dr. Alan Peterson, ’73 ...