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Flying High: Demoz Gebre-Egziabher
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Demoz Gebre-Egziabher, professor of aerospace engineering and mechanics, is working on navigation systems for things that fly and things that roll on the ground through the MnDRIVE initiative.
Sensing and Estimation: Rajesh Rajamani
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Rajesh Rajamani, a mechanical engineering professor, is working on several research projects focused on electromechanical sensors that have medical or automotive applications through the MnDRIVE initiative.
Nature Biotech ranks U in top five for life sciences tech transfer
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The University of Minnesota is one of the institutions leading the charge on finding innovative ways to put their weight behind tech transfer.
Startup Profile: Ninja Metrics
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A social analytics tool that can measure how players in online games influence each other and assess the monetary worth of that influenceis based on a computer program developed by Jaideep Srivastava, Ph.D., professor of computer science and engineering.
Heat-resistant spacecraft to bring solar mysteries to light
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Physicists have long had a burning desire to find out more about the sun. That opportunity is coming at last.
University startup develops fast, accurate early disease detection
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Any patient who has waited days for a blood test to come back knows it can be a nerve-wracking experience. Imagine if you had a device the size of a graphing calculator that could give you accurate results in 15 minutes?
Chemists turn key to new energy future
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U chemists explain new reaction, demonstrating how quantum mechanics can help design more energy-efficient catalysts.
When gravity rocked the Universe
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Right after its birth in the Big Bang, the infant Universe threw the mother of all tantrums. In an instant it ballooned from smaller than an atomic nucleus to something much larger than its currently observable size. (Yes, the Universe is bigger than we can currently observe.)
Physics and Nanotechnology building open
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The new Physics and Nanotechnology Building (PAN) serves the University’s School of Physics and Astronomy and Minnesota Nano Center.
CDMS experiment results covers new ground in search for dark matter
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Scientists looking for dark matter face a serious challenge: No one knows what dark matter particles look like. So their search covers a wide range of possible traits—different masses, different probabilities of interacting with regular matter.