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A smiling person holds up a homemade craft project resembling a small robot or vehicle, made from a white box with three blue decorative circles on the front, a white paper tube on top, and sparkly pink pipe cleaners.

The first ever astrophysics summer camp at the University of Minnesota Morris was held in June. 

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Nate Wood ’08 is the principal at West Central Area Secondary School in Barrett and was appointed last fall to the Minnesota Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board. A graduate of the secondary education program, he appreciates the support system he had at UMN Morris and the well-rounded college experience.

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Through her pre-LADC internship at an addiction treatment center, Rita Erickson ‘26 is gaining the confidence she’ll need to work as an addictions counselor after she graduates with a degree in psychology. 

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Thanks to a grant from the Institute on the Environment, UMN Morris Assistant Professor Wenkai Guan is leading a national, interdisciplinary research team working on a tool to better understand and monitor the impacts of AI infrastructure on both water quantity and water quality.

Woman in a maroon polo shirt with university logo smiles in front of solar panels and grazing cows on a sunny day.

A solid liberal arts education combined with a love of animals and the outdoors put Kirsten Sharpe Moser ’14 on the pathway to a career as a dairy researcher.

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Jon Dalager ’79 and Gabe Desrosiers ’05 have been selected as the 2026 UMMAA Distinguished Alumni Award recipients. 

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AgCountry Farm Credit Services has joined with UMN Morris to launch the AgCountry Challenge.  

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Colleges of Distinction has named UMN Morris a College of Distinction for the 2026-27 academic year.

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UMN Morris student leaders were honored at the annual Student Leadership Awards on Tuesday, April 29. 

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This spring, art history students Sam Rekstad ’26 and Raven Barickman ’27 were able to gain hands-on experience working with UMN Morris' Gendler art collection.