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Mar 8, 2018

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Jun 29, 2012

U of M Crookston prof not a ‘Millionaire’

But wildlife ecologist John Loegering did win $13,550 on the “Who Wants to be Millionaire” television show that aired Thursday. He decided to take the money instead of risk a wrong answer on this question: Because it’s a symbol of hospitality, what fruit was chosen by Chuck Williams to be the logo of his Williams-Sonoma stores?

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The Grand Forks Herald has the story of Prof. John Loegering's performance on the "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" show that aired Thursday night, including the seven questions he faced, and the answers.

The answer he was looking for on the last question: pineapple.

Think you could be on the show? Try the online game.

Here's more about Prof. Loegering.

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Fred Wood says Crookston has an innovative campus with technology-rich learning. He comes to Minnesota after 26 years at the University of California-Davis, where he earned degrees in chemistry before becoming an administrator.

Roger Rusack, a longtime University of Minnesota physics professor, has been a part of the search for the elusive Higgs boson particle for two decades. He helped design, develop and tweak a critical particle detector within the massive, 17-mile-long Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland, the world's most powerful particle accelerator. His contribution, the electromagnetic calorimeter, measures the energies of photons.

For a 14th consecutive year, the University of Minnesota Crookston has been named one of the top regional colleges in the Midwest by U.S. News. This year’s ranks Crookston in the top three out of nearly 400 colleges in the region.

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