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Discovering the next generation of food ingredients

The University of Minnesota’s Plant Protein Innovation Center (PPIC) is the first center of its kind in the nation for plant and other alternative proteins. PPIC was founded in 2018 to bring together researchers—including undergraduate and graduate students—and industry to study and produce sustainable plant protein ingredients. The center is housed in the College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences.

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Building pathways from high school to college

The U of M College in the Schools program helps high school students get ready for college.

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Expecting the mountain pine beetle

U of M researchers are anticipating and preparing for the arrival of a top threat to Minnesota’s trees.

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Bringing a taste of home much closer

A new Vegetable Working Group aims to fill the food void in native African vegetables for local immigrants.

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Making computers smarter—with TikTok dance videos

A grad student uses frame-by-frame data to construct more realistic 3D avatars of real people.

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An enigmatic age

A psychology professor gives a tour of a complicated stage of life.

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A fresh view of youth and adversity

What if adults worked with the strengths, not the perceived weaknesses, of young people from adverse environments?

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Giving back: one adolescent’s tale

To help struggling peers everywhere, a teen takes part in an unprecedented study.

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Out of harm’s way

Researchers study a variety of potential treatments for nonsuicidal self-injury.

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Finding the right track

By balancing athletics and academics, a biology student finds her unique path.

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Sowing seeds of change

Grad student and farmer Tiffany LaShae is healing the soil … and the historical trauma of a racist food system.

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Gophers shine again in new APR report

Fourteen Gopher sports programs earned perfect Academic Progress Rate scores for 2020-21.

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Science meets caring

Junior Brooklynn Isley was drawn to a career in nursing because it combines two things she loves: science and caring for people. It appears she chose the right path.

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Cleanup duty

New therapies designed to clear senescent cells from the body could keep our aging population healthier longer—and improve outcomes for COVID-19 patients, too.

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Managing public health problems in real time

What started as a part-time teaching job blossomed into a series of remarkable roles for U of M student Sydney Redepenning.

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Students create sculpture and build community

Students from a wide range of majors experience creation and community in the Department of Art’s Foundry and Metal Sculpture class.

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Survivor elms

U of M researchers are wrangling the charismatic trees’ innate ability to fend off Dutch elm disease.

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Mental health care for all

Doctoral student Vanessa Anyanso is uniting her interests of helping people and doing research—with a focus on underrepresented communities.

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Steveson, Hasz receive Big Ten Medal of Honor

Bethany Hasz and Gable Steveson are the U of M's recipients of this year’s Big Ten Medal of Honor.

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Turning lessons into leadership

Claire Busse developed a trauma-informed leadership training for peer leaders in the University of Minnesota’s marching band.