College-wide featured stories
September 2013 Starwatch
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The University of Minnesota offers public viewings of the night sky.
Institute for Engineering in Medicine spurs medical technology development
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An upcoming conference sponsored by the University of Minnesota will help medical device companies find opportunities to collaborate on research and product development.
Breathing' bacteria clean up toxic waste
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Paige Novak, a professor in the department of civil engineering, focuses on applied environmental microbiology. Her research is essential to transforming today’s superfund sites into tomorrow’s park lands.
Storm-chasing spacecraft
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University of Minnesota physicists are part of a newly launched NASA mission to probe the heart of the Van Allen Radiation Belts.
Magnetic properties: Joshua Feinberg
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McKnight Land-Grant professor Joshua Feinberg studies the earth’s magnetic field’s effects to determine what was happening millions of years ago.
Clean energy from CO₂?
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Three University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering researchers have invented a CO2-plume geothermal (CPG) system that gives global warming villan CO2 a greener future.
Getting the pole positions
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The U’s Earth Sciences experts at mapping Antarctica are expanding their work to the Arctic.
Not your parents' chem labs
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In today’s chemistry labs, students figure out how to solve problems for themselves and learn "green" experimental methods.
Robo Boat: Robotics and environmental protection make the perfect pair for Volkan Isler
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In the land of 10,000 lakes, Volkan Isler found the perfect evader for advancing his pursuit-evasion work: carp.
Adding dimension to data: Daniel Keefe
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McKnight Land-Grant professor Daniel Keefe uses modeling and computer visualization to interact with information in three dimensions.