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Wednesday, April 23, 2025

April 23, 2025

Good morning,

As a dedicated fan of the Minnesota Wild, I think the world seems brighter than usual this morning. Sometimes things work out for the good guys, I suppose. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for the T-Wolves, who took a hard loss to the Lakers last night. But, hey, they say you’re not in trouble in a seven-game series until you lose at home.

Enough sports talk. We come to you today with a handful of new things to read, and it would be kind of rude if you just ignored that, don’t you think? Scroll down and get reading.

Take it easy,

Spencer White | Editor-in-Chief | [email protected]

Top Story

With a variety of workshop spaces, students can work on projects and receive help.

UMN fabrication labs support student creativity

by Hannah Reynolds | Published April 22, 2025

Fabrication labs in the University of Minnesota’s College of Design provide a dedicated space for students to explore and be creative. 

Any student enrolled in design courses can utilize the labs, which are equipped with a wood and metal shop, digital fabrication tools and a material store to work on projects and learn how to use equipment with the help of onsite staff. 

The lab is open on weekdays and for limited hours on weekends with facilities on both the University’s Minneapolis and St. Paul campuses. It welcomes students with all levels of shop experience.

Anne Henly, a fabrication technician with the labs for eight years, said they are designed to be inclusive and encourage students of different disciplines to take advantage of the tools and staff expertise the lab provides. 

“The Fab Lab offers great resources to people where they can make their ideas a reality,” Henly said. “They start to work with materials and see how things like wood, metal, plastic or fabric, all those things, how you can then fasten them together. You can do all sorts of things.” 

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News

By Katrina Bailey | A study at the University of Minnesota’s Masonic Institute for the Developing Brain in Minneapolis hopes to detect autism in children as young as six months. 

The nationwide Infant Brain Imaging Study has Minneapolis as one of five sites participating in the study. To see the progression, participants underwent MRI brain scans at six months, one year and two years.

Opinion

By Wren Warne-Jacobsen | HEARD ISLAND — If you’ve been keeping up with our local news, you’ve likely heard about U.S. President Donald Trump’s new tariff plan announced on April 2, or as Trump declared it, “Liberation Day,” which put a 10% tariff on all imports into the U.S. as well as higher tariffs on numerous countries. 

The penguins of Heard Island and McDonald Islands have not been spared from the U.S. president’s tactics, as the administration hit our islands with a 10% tariff on goods. 

While our islands make up an external territory of Australia and are some of the most remote places on Earth, this is not enough to escape Trump’s trade war. 

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