College of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences

A portrait of Ella Wightman in a striped shirt sitting at a table in a brightly lit wood-paneled library study space.

Fueling a spark

Ella Wightman makes a difference through grassroots community change.

UMD students visit Lot D on the Duluth waterfront, with a concrete silo and the Aerial Lift Bridge in the background.

Framing the future of Duluth: The city as canvas

From safer crosswalks to waterfront revitalization, students in the University of Minnesota Duluth’s "City as a Work of Art" course are turning classroom designs into real-world community impact.

A person painting on a canvas by a window, surrounded by art supplies and finished artworks.

Code and creativity

How blending art and computer science helped one student imagine a different future.

A person with a headset sits at a control desk, overlooking a hockey arena.

Smooth operator

How one student’s lifelong love of hockey led her from on-ice competition to game-day operations.