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On Thursday, June 1, Executive Vice President and Provost Rachel T.A. Croson announced the appointment of Dr. Prasad Boradkar as the next Dean of the College of Design, effective September 5, 2023, pending approval by the University’s Board of Regents at its June meeting.

Prasad Boradkar

College of Design students teamed up with the Multicultural Center for Academic Excellence (MCAE) to create a refreshed design for the group's signature graduation stoles.

Pig’s Eye Lake at the Mississippi River in St. Paul, a site of historical pollution with significant Indigenous heritage and ecological importance, will serve as a catalyst project of the “Soft-Urban Riverfront: A New Paradigm for Headwater Metropolises” studio. 

This prestigious award goes to one architectural educator, nationally, each year. The last University of Minnesota educator to win it was Ralph Rapson in 1987.

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Featured Events

Textile
Narrative Threads
September 3–December 21
Goldstein Gallery, McNeal Hall
 
Our next major exhibition in the Goldstein Gallery is Narrative Threads: Embroidered Textiles from the Donald Clay Johnson Collection. With a focus on the diverse techniques and traditions of embroidery originating primarily in northwestern India, the installation features selections from the extensive collections of Dr. Johnson, former curator of the Ames Library of South Asia at the University of Minnesota.

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