Office of Diversity and Outreach
Recent News & Events:
IT Summer Bridge Program helps to ease transition from high school; funded by 3M Foundation—Sign up now
The Office of Outreach and Diversity is offering a unique residential experience for incoming IT first-year students that come from underrepresented cultural groups. Many questions and concerns arise when transitioning from high school to college. The Summer Bridge Program allows students a chance to become acquainted with life at the University before the school year begins. Download application (pdf). More...
Math makes it happen in criminal investigations
Real world situations are the perfect way to show students the value of the math they have to take to earn degrees in engineering and science. For example, solving crimes with math is not just for prime time. Math makes it happen in real life. University of Minnesota students used statistics, geometry, and mathematical computing to help Virginia detectives narrow the field of suspects in an unsolved crime. Check out the link below to the Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications. Math makes it happen! More ...
Math Makes It Happen Archive...
The Office of Outreach and Diversity outreach helps children explore science and engineering
 The Office of Outreach and Diversity
recently hosted 60 girls from the Minneapolis Afrocentric Charter
School, Harvest Prep Academy. The event was in honor of Black History
Month and National Engineers Week.
Because women are underrepresented in the engineering and science
fields, this type of outreach may be essential for young girls to
realize their potential. Although
there are not a lot of women in it today, women have been there
since the very beginning. Grace Hopper was a computer science pioneer,
and this month Frances E. Allen became the first woman to be awarded
the Turing Award for her contributions to the field. More...
High Tech Girl’s Society hosted by the Office of Outreach and Diversity
to encourage girls to consider high tech careers
Thirty young women with the High Tech Girl's Society recently visited
the Institute of Technology to learn about topics like programming
a robot dog, the flow of gases on the surface of the sun, and tracking
eye movement to improve Web sites. The HTGS hopes to introduce young
women to careers in science and engineering and show them potential
outcomes of an education in technology or science. More...
For more information
Office of Diversity and Outreach
Institute of Technology Student Services
105 Lind Hall
612-626-0219
polla007@umn.edu
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