College-wide featured stories
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.
Featured Fellow: Computer Scientist Shashi Shekhar
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Here we interview IonE resident fellow Shashi Shekhar, McKnight Distinguished University Professor in the College of 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.
Satellite imaging research widens understanding of climate change
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Vipin Kumar, Ph.D., head of the U’s Department of Computer Science and Engineering in the College of Science and Engineering, has developed advanced methods of data mining that use satellite imagery to track changes on the surface of land across the world.
In memoriam: Henry Albert Bent
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Henry Albert Bent, a former professor in the University of Minnesota Department of Chemistry, died in Pittsburgh, Penn., on Saturday, Jan. 3, 2015, at the age of 88.
Featured Fellow: Computer Scientist Tian He
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Here we interview IonE resident fellow Tian He, McKnight Distinguished University Professor in the College of Science and Engineering.
Made in Minnesota: Celebrating University Innovators
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Innovation and discovery have always been a proud part of the university’s growing and rich entrepreneurial landscape.
MnDRIVE-funded iGEM team turns mercury into gold
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The iGEM – International Genetically Engineered Machines – competition challenges undergraduate students to identify real-world problems and solve them through biological engineering and design.
Project to create sustainable magnets wins $10K prize
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A project aimed at developing magnets that don’t require the use of rare earth elements captured the $10,000 top prize in a Dow Sustainability Innovation Student Challenge Award (SISCA) competition held Dec. 4 at the University of Minnesota’s Institute on the Environment in St. Paul.
The Power of Scholarship: Jennifer Chang
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How has the Dr. Rusty Barceló scholarship from the University of Minnesota’s Women’s Center impacted Jennifer Chang’s education and life?