CSE in the News — July 2026 archive
July 2026
White Bear Lake Conservation District discusses possible wake boat regulations
A multiyear study by researchers in the University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering’s St. Anthony Falls Laboratory found that wake surf boats generate larger, more powerful waves than conventional recreational boats. Researchers recommend wake surfing at least 500 feet (a little less than 1.5 football fields) from shore, docks and other boats and in water that is at least 20 feet deep to reduce shoreline erosion and sediment disturbance. July 29: Press Pubs
This AI watches your bubbles to monitor your health underwater
Junaed Sattar, Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and senior author on the paper, said, “Our goal was to give divers a dedicated robotic safety partner to provide a second set of ‘eyes’ capable of reading physiological stress underwater. This work is a first step towards assessing not just one but a group of divers in the robot’s field of view.” July 24: CSE UMN News; July 27: Tech Explorist; Bioengineer.org; Scienmag; Open Access Government; News Wise; EurekAlert!; Mirage; Life Technology; July 28: Yahoo! Tech; Electronics For U; Digital Trends; Daily Guardian; Head Topics (Translated from German); Heise (Translated from German); July 29: Telset (Translated from Indonesian); Tomorrows World Today; Rocking Robots; (18 as of July 30 at 8:40 a.m.)
American Solar Challenge kicks off at the University of Minnesota
“Ultimately what it came down to was we had some engineering issues at the track, and the team made the decision to preserve team member safety,” University of Minnesota team leader Himal Trivedi said. July 25: KSTP
Producing ammonia & fertiliser using wind power in Morris, Minnesota
"Essentially, the wind or the sun is our feedstock. We typically design a chemical plant to run at steady state and produce at a constant rate, assuming that we have a constant supply of our feedstock." Prodromos Daoutidis, Professor of Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota Twin Cities. July 20: Ammonia Energy Association
Driving the speed limit cuts millions in fuel costs, study finds
"We already understand the physics of how speed affects fuel consumption, but quantifying the exact magnitude of those savings at a national scale gives us a clearer picture of the actual impact," said Bharat Jayaprakash, a doctoral student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Minnesota and lead author on the paper. July 16: AP News; TechXplore; CSE UMN News; Phys.org; NewsWise; The Philadelphia Inquirer; The Washington Post; KSAT; St. Catharine's Standard; The Herald Palladium; Courier News; Temple Daily Telegram; The Oskaloosa Herald; Goshen News; Courthouse News Service; Head Topics; News 6 Click Orlando; July 17: Daily Mail, Gizmodo, StudyFinds; 10TV; ABC News; AOL.com; Bioengineer.org; FOX2; KHQA; KRQE; KSNT 27 News; KTBS 3; KTLA; KVUE; MinnPost; myarklamiss.com; mykxlg.com; Nature; NBC Bay Area; NBC4 WCMH-TV; PIX11; WATE 6 On Your Side; WFLA, WJHL, WJTV; WRIC ABC 8News; WSB-TV; WYFF; July 18: NY Post; July 20: Meditation Affinity; Gupteswar; Majesty Life Coach; Business News for Profit; Business News This Week; MPR News; WOC 1420; July 21: Anthropocene Magazine July 22: Fox 9; July 23: Times of India; July 24: Yahoo News New Zealand; The Cool Down; MSN; Yahoo! Nachrichten Deutschland; July 30: MSN; (474 as of July 27 at 9:05 a.m.)
New study reveals how dark matter formed shortly after the Big Bang
"Dark matter is famously enigmatic. One of the few things we know about it is that it needs to be cold," Stephen Henrich, a graduate student in Minnesota's School of Physics and Astronomy, said in a statement. July 8: Yahoo! News
Minnesota Research Supports Cleaner Water Protection
Bill Arnold, Ph.D., a professor in the University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering, studies how organic pollutants move, break down, and interact within natural water systems. His research explained how chemicals travel through soil, surface water, and groundwater. July. 8: Minnesota Ag Connection; July 16: NewsWise; July 18: Biz RapidX; Online News 9; Business Micro; Business News for Profit; Business News This Week; July 31: Hometown Source; (8 as of Aug. 3 at 9:10 a.m.)