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Building a brighter future with robotics

From exploring shipwrecks to air-dropping supplies in a pandemic, U of M faculty and students are designing robots for the 21st century.

Baby Livi, white, crawls on a wooden floor with purple balloons.

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A baby gets the gift of hearing

For 1-year-old Livi, every day with cochlear implants is ‘a miracle.’

A micrograph showing fat-associated lymphoid clusters (multicolored) in abdominal adipose tissue of a mouse.

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Don’t blame ‘beer belly’ on beer

Research links the age-related bulge to immune cells that cluster in abdominal fat tissue and disrupt the metabolism of fat.

Agriculture and Environment

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Earth's wild grazers can’t keep up with the effects of nutrient pollution

Wild herbivores eat some of the plant growth due to nutrient pollution, but not enough to counteract these negative impacts according to a new study from the College of Biological Sciences.

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Wolves alter wetland creation and recolonization by killing ecosystem engineers

Beavers are some of the world’s most prolific ecosystem engineers, creating, maintaining and radically altering wetlands almost everywhere they live. But what, if anything, might control this engineering by beavers and influence the formation of North America’s wetlands?

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Sunlight and aircraft help scientists assess how the diversity of life affects ecosystems

A University of Minnesota-led research team has developed new methods to assess how biodiversity loss impacts forest ecosystems by determining how sunlight reflects off the surface of the forest canopy using spectral images taken from an airplane.

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Architecture and Design

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How I spent the summer of COVID-19

Meet three U of M students who found a silver lining after the pandemic changed their plans.

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The costs and consequences of progress

New work shows how the building of Twin Cities highways steamrolled poor and largely Black neighborhoods.

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Can clothing change the world?

A uniquely balanced lab at the University of Minnesota offers a glimpse of the rapidly growing field of wearable technology.

Arts and Humanities

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How I spent the summer of COVID-19

Meet three U of M students who found a silver lining after the pandemic changed their plans.

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University of Minnesota launches the “Immigrants in COVID America” project

The timely resource and website documents the health, economic and social impact of COVID-19 on immigrant and refugee communities in the United States.

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Unraveling the paradox

U of M professor Samuel Myers talks about tangible ways to reduce racial inequities in Minnesota.

Business and Management

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Talking local retail with U of M

The holiday shopping season is a critical time for American small businesses. According to the National Retail Federation, the holidays generate about 20% of some businesses’ annual sales.

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Finding the code to success

Supported by a scholarship, Governess Simpson’s experience at the U of M has been one of community, opportunity, and finding her confidence.

Research Brief

COVID-19 negatively impacting well-being, say U.S. adults

Symptoms of depression are up and life satisfaction is down for U.S. adults during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new study by University of Minnesota researchers.

Campus Affairs

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University of Minnesota Joins National Alliance Aimed at Developing a More Inclusive and Diverse STEM Faculty

The University of Minnesota announced it’s one of 19 universities joining a three-year institutional change effort to develop inclusive faculty recruitment, hiring, and retention practices.

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University of Minnesota Medical School Department of Family Medicine and Community Health Creates Josie Robinson Johnson Endowed Chair in Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

The Medical School is excited to announce the creation of the Josie Robinson Johnson Endowed Chair in Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion and to appoint Andrea Westby as the inaugural holder.

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U.S. Department of Defense awards $87.5 million to create a new Manufacturing Innovation Institute sited at the University of Minnesota

BioMADE will focus on nonmedical bioindustrial manufacturing and boost local bioeconomy.

COVID-19 Stories, Insights, Expertise

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University of Minnesota establishes the National Resource Center for Refugees, Immigrants and Migrants

U of M faculty William Stauffer and Shailey Prasad to lead the NRC-RIM.

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U of M offers mass testing for COVID-19

The University of Minnesota is offering a free two-day saliva-testing event for the U of M Twin Cities community November 16 and 17 at the Field House in Minneapolis.

Education

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An ally for Native American students

U of M doctoral student Megan Red Shirt-Shaw is working to expand opportunities and support for Native students.

Talking with U of M

Talking social-emotional learning for children with U of M

Prof. Clay Cook explains why social-emotional learning is a vital part of a child’s development and how caregivers can support their children.

Expert Alert

The science of debunking misinformation

University of Minnesota Professor Panayiota Kendeou and Associate Professor Emily Vraga are available to comment about the danger of misinformation, how it spreads, and what can be done to debunk it.

Health

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More than a mask

Abdennour Abbas and his team at a textile startup company are creating face masks engineered to kill viruses like COVID-19 as soon as they make contact with the material.

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Catamaran Bio, based in part on U of M research, soars with early funding

A biotech startup that includes technology from the University of Minnesota created to bring new cancer therapies to life has attracted high levels of funding during its early-stage investment rounds.

Law and Policy

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Expert Alert

Minnesota elections, campaigns and political history

With the 2020 election less than two weeks away, Humphrey School of Public Affairs research fellow Eric Ostermeier is available to speak about the election, campaigns, and political history from a Minnesota and national perspective.

Expert Alert

Identifying obstacles for higher-ed students during the pandemic

U of M staff member Krista Soria talks about the importance of understanding the pandemic’s impact upon students and of sharing the data with university leaders, staff and faculty so that they can make decisions to better address the significant challenges students are facing.

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Taking law into their own hands

A U of M law degree opens doors to more than courtrooms and boardrooms.

Science and Technology

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Building a brighter future with robotics

From exploring shipwrecks to air-dropping supplies in a pandemic, U of M faculty and students are designing robots for the 21st century.

Research Brief

In preventing nuclear collapse in cells, scientists inch closer to a treatment for a set of rare diseases

University of Minnesota researchers have discovered a potential target for the research and development of future therapies to mitigate the symptoms of a series of genetic disorders called laminopathies.

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T. rex had huge growth spurts, but other dinos grew “slow and steady”

By cutting into fossils and examining growth rings, scientists learned how predatory dinosaurs got so big.

Sports and Recreation

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Gopher Athletics to implement personnel cost savings measures as Board of Regents considers proposal to discontinue four athletic programs

In response to Gopher Athletics' anticipated revenue shortfall this fiscal year, the Board of Regents approved personnel cost savings measures and reviewed a recommendation to discontinue four existing Gopher program.

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Lu, Coughlin receive Big Ten Medal of Honor

Seniors Ivy Lu and Carter Coughlin have been named the 2020 Big Ten Medal of Honor recipients for the Golden Gophers.

The Gopher women's hockey team celebrates a championship.

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A decade of Gopher sports highlights

Now that the decade has come to a close, it's time to look back at 10 years' worth of memorable moments in Golden Gopher sports.

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UMN in the News

December 1, 2020

Dr. David Boulware on a promising Covid treatment

WCCO Radio

December 1, 2020

Clearing up confusion on potential COVID-19 vaccines, testing

MPR News

November 30, 2020

UMR prepares for the rest of the fall semester

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