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Terri McBride in Coast Guard uniform
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Charting her own course

Terri McBride’s journey has taken her from the U.S. Coast Guard to the U of M Medical School. She aims to serve the underserved.

Three female students, one in the low-built formula racing car, all with ponytails, confer
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The female formula

The student formula car team motors to success with women in the driver’s seat.
The robot, about two feet tall, has just tossed up a ball on the floor of a U of M gym.
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Battle of the bots

Students’ basketball-playing robot competes in a collegiate “final four.”
Arshia Khan and Yumna Anwar look at a screen displayed on white, blue-eyed humanoid robot Pepper.
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A job for Dr. Pepper

Pepper the humanized robot is learning to care for people with mild mental disability.
Two people measuring a pothole.
Expert Alert

Why so many potholes?

Manik Barman with UMD's Swenson College of Science and Engineering comments on fixing potholes. 

Johanna Lucht in front of an aircraft at NASA
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Space cowgirl

Alumna Johanna Lucht is breaking new ground as a deaf engineer at NASA.
Robert Porter, with lab coat and a plush rooster in the background, talks to the photographer.
Faculty Profile

Robert E. Porter

Robert E. Porter is a 2017-18 Graduate and Professional Teaching Award Winner