Question: how is University of Minnesota and Georgia Institute of Technology connected?

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University of Minnesota: The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (often referred to as The University of Minnesota, Minnesota, the U of M, UMN, or simply the U) is a public research university in Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota.  The Minneapolis and St. Paul campuses are approximately 3 mi apart, and the Saint Paul campus is actually in neighboring Falcon Heights.  It is the oldest and largest campus within the University of Minnesota system and has the sixth-largest main campus student body in the United States, with 51,147 students in 2013–14.  The university is the flagship institution of the University of Minnesota system, and is organized into 19 colleges and schools, with sister campuses in Crookston, Duluth, Morris, and Rochester.

Henry S. Valk: Henry S. Valk (born 1929) is Professor Emeritus of Physics at the Georgia Institute of Technology.  Valk attended George Washington University where he received his B.S. in physics in 1953 and M.S. in mathematics in 1954.  He then earned his Ph.D. at Washington University in St. Louis in 1957.  Before joining the faculty at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Valk was a professor of physics at the University of Nebraska.

Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program: An Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program provides funding and/or credit to undergraduate students who volunteer for faculty-mentored research projects pertaining to all academic disciplines at universities such as The University of Queensland, Boston University, the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), the University of California, Irvine, California State University, Long Beach, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the University of Michigan, the University of Michigan-Flint, Florida State University, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), the University of Minnesota, the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, the RWTH Aachen University, Imperial College London, the University of New Hampshire, and the University of Oregon.

Harrison Wadsworth, Jr.: Harrison Morton Wadsworth, Jr. (August 20, 1924 – August 3, 2010) was an American engineering professor of statistical methods, author and specialist in quality control science.  Born in Duluth, Minnesota, he grew up in Miami Beach, Florida and lived most of his life in Atlanta, Georgia.  Wadsworth received his B.I.E. Degree and M.S. Degrees from the Georgia Institute of Technology and his PhD from Case Western Reserve University.  He was a professor of statistics in the Industrial and Systems Engineering Department at the Georgia Institute of Technology from 1960 through 1991, and taught in China and Turkey.  He operated his own quality auditing consulting business upon retiring in 1991.  He was a veteran of the U.S. Army, serving as a supply sergeant in the Philippines in World War II, and in the Korean War.

Georgia Institute of Technology: The Georgia Institute of Technology (commonly referred to as Georgia Tech, Tech, or GT) is a public research university in Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States.  It is a part of the University System of Georgia and has satellite campuses in Savannah, Georgia; Metz, France; Athlone, Ireland; Shenzhen, China; and Singapore.

List of Georgia Institute of Technology alumni: <onlyinclude> This list of Georgia Institute of Technology alumni includes graduates, non-graduate former students, and current students of Georgia Tech.  Notable administration, faculty, and staff are found on the list of Georgia Institute of Technology faculty.  Georgia Tech alumni are generally known as Yellow Jackets.  According to the Georgia Tech Alumni Association,

Robert C. Michelson: Robert C. Michelson (born 1951) is an American engineer and academic widely known for inventing the entomopter, a biologically inspired flapping-winged aerial robot, and for having established the International Aerial Robotics Competition.  He has received degrees in electrical engineering from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and the Georgia Institute of Technology.  Michelson's professional career began at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory where he worked on radar-based ocean surveillance systems.  He later became a member of the research faculty at the Georgia Institute of Technology.  At the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) he was involved in full-time research, directing over 30 major research programs.

List of Georgia Institute of Technology athletes: Georgia Institute of Technology has graduated a number of athletes.  This includes graduates, non-graduate former students and current students of Georgia Tech who are notable for their achievements within athletics, sometimes before or after their time at Georgia Tech.  Other alumni can be found in the list of Georgia Institute of Technology alumni; notable administration, faculty, and staff can be found on the list of Georgia Institute of Technology faculty.  Intercollegiate sports teams at Georgia Tech are called "Yellow Jackets", and are run by the Georgia Tech Athletic Association.  The Athletic Association runs Georgia Tech's Hall of Fame, which has inducted many of Tech's greatest players throughout the program's history.

Natashia Boland: Natashia Lesley Boland (born 1967) is a professor of mathematics at Georgia Institute of Technology.  Boland completed a PhD at the University of Western Australia in 1992, and afterwards she pursued postdoctoral research at the University of Waterloo in Canada, at the Georgia Institute of Technology in the USA.  She spent 13 years at the University of Melbourne and then from 2008 to 2014 worked at the University of Newcastle.  She has made contributions to transportation scheduling, modeling of infrastructure networks, planning pricing strategies for demand, and optimization for environmental modeling.

History of Georgia Tech: The history of the Georgia Institute of Technology can be traced back to Reconstruction-era plans to develop the industrial base of the Southern United States.  Founded on October 13, 1885 in Atlanta, Georgia as the Georgia School of Technology, the university opened in 1888 after the construction of Tech Tower and a shop building and only offered one degree in mechanical engineering.  By 1901, degrees in electrical, civil, textile, and chemical engineering were also offered.  In 1948, the name was changed to the Georgia Institute of Technology to reflect its evolution from an engineering school to a full technical institute and research university.

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