After winning the Food Network’s “Food Court Wars” in 2013 at Pimento Jamaican Kitchen’s Burnsville Center location, Tomme Beevas opened a second location: Pimento Jamaican Kitchen on Eat Street in South Minneapolis.
The University of Minnesota today announced that it has launched 200 startup companies since 2006, a significant milestone in its work to scale and commercialize ideas and inventions from labs and research facilities on its five campuses. The announcement coincided with a report released today by the group Heartland Forward that ranked the University of Minnesota Twin Cities first for technology transfer within the heartland, a 20-state region, and fifth among all U.S. public universities.
Displaying the highway death toll on message boards is a common awareness campaign, but new research from the University of Toronto and University of Minnesota shows this tactic actually leads to more crashes.
Promoting board gender diversity is often well received by investors, but the power of public attention presents a paradox for companies with less inclusive corporate cultures.
![[Left] Professor Joyce Serido headshot. [Right] Couple looking at papers and using a calculator.](/sites/twin-cities.umn.edu/files/styles/mobile/public/Unews%20Image%20Templates%203_2%20%282%29.jpg?itok=4WK8Bapn)
