College-wide featured stories
Chen-Fu Liao: Safer crossings
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Chen-Fu Liao, a researcher in the Center for Transportation Studies, has developed a Mobile Accessible Pedestrian Signal (MAPS) system to help people who are visually impaired.
Ruling the Road
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Three CSE research experts are working to make our roads safer, commutes smoother, and our automobiles smarter.
Research by the numbers
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The numbers are in and they show that research is thriving at the University of Minnesota.
U alumni channel entrepreneurship experience into startup
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A group of University of Minnesota alumni have developed a high-tech water bottle that tracks the amount of water its users drink during the day and reminds them when it’s time to drink more.
U-designed UAV flight system, used at NASA, getting major upgrade
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A team of aerospace engineering researchers at the University of Minnesota are creating the next generation of research aircraft flight control system used at NASA.
Fossil teeth point to early exodus from Africa
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University of Minnesota researcher R. Lawrence Edwards and colleagues dated modern human teeth that 80,000-120,000 years old. The findings may show that humans left Africa much earlier than previously thought.
CSE researchers developing longer-flying, solar-powered drones
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College of Science and Engineering researchers recently received a $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation to develop the world’s smallest solar-powered UAV that is capable of flying for multiple days on end.
$92.5 million renovation of historic Tate to add state-of-the-art labs and classrooms
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A $92.5 million renovation of the historic Tate Lab kicked into high gear this fall. When completed in fall 2017, Tate will be equipped with state-of-the-art labs and classrooms.
Supercomputer fuels research to limit carbon emissions
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Take a moment to picture a chemist’s research tools, and you might imagine microscopes, beakers and Bunsen burners. But when it comes to theoretical and computational chemistry, researchers prefer a different instrument: the supercomputer.
Researchers study a gut microbe mystery involving immigrants
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A new project looks at changes in gut microbes in immigrant populations and how that may intersect with high rates of obesity, diabetes and other chronic diseases.