Featured Stories
More taste, less waste
Posted July 10, 2020
College of Science and Engineering alum Mladen Gajic recently launched PlasticScore, an app that crowdsources reviews to give restaurants zero-waste sustainability ratings.
Honoring the heroes of COVID-19
Posted July 9, 2020
Biomedical engineering graduate Anant Naik published a children’s book to benefit Doctors Without Borders.
Mask making on a pandemic sabbatical
Posted July 8, 2020
When COVID-19 interrupted Professor Rhonda Franklin’s semester leave, she led an interdisciplinary team to build a general-purpose face mask. Here’s the story behind that production process.
CSE researchers developing SARS CoV-2 spike proteins
Posted July 1, 2020
Professor Wei-Shou Hu is working with the UMN Medical School to mass engineer a molecular machine that could further COVID-19 research and vaccines.
50,000 masks and counting
Posted June 25, 2020
Student and staff volunteers assembled MNmask Style 3 kits in Anderson Labs under the direction of Laura Bartels, a recent mechanical engineering grad student.
Tales from the South Pole
Posted June 17, 2020
CSE researcher Nathan Precup shares what life is like at the South Pole, where he is operating the newly installed BICEP Array telescope.
COVID Commencement: A mother's dream comes true
Posted June 8, 2020
At a cabin up north, CSE Professor Emeritus Keith Champlin—dressed in full regalia—conferred his granddaughter's computer science degree.
Ultrasound may prove to be effective, noninvasive treatment for COVID-19
Posted May 28, 2020
Biomedical engineering researchers at the University of Minnesota together with clinical colleagues in the University's Medical School are examining if ultrasound may be an effective treatment for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).
A culture of care
Posted May 28, 2020
CSE’s chemistry department is prioritizing students’ mental, physical and social health—and serving as a national model.
Fighting SARS CoV-2 at the molecular level
Posted May 26, 2020
CSE professors Ben Hackel and Jonathan Sachs are working with the College of Pharmacy and Medical School to engineer molecules that could stop coronavirus infection.