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Faculty News, Honors/Awards

Three CSE faculty named most cited researchers in the world

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Three College of Science and Engineering faculty were recently named among the most "Highly Cited Researchers" in the world—R. Lawrence Edwards, Dan Knights, and Tony Low—along with 24 other faculty at the University of Minnesota.

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Awards-Grants, People-Profiles

Three CSE faculty named most cited researchers in the world

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Three College of Science and Engineering faculty were recently named among the most "Highly Cited Researchers" in the world—R. Lawrence Edwards, Dan Knights, and Tony Low—along with 24 other faculty at the University of Minnesota.

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Awards-Grants

U of M awarded $1.2M to help improve energy efficiency for computer systems using AI

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The University of Minnesota will receive more than $1.2 million over the next three years from the National Science Foundation’s Future of Semiconductors (NSF FuSe2) to advance semiconductor research and innovation.

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Research

College of Science and Engineering hires 47 new faculty in two years

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The College of Science and Engineering welcomed tenure-track faculty in 12 of its academic departments on the Twin Cities campus.

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Awards-Grants, People-Profiles

Materials science researcher awarded L’Oreal USA For Women in Science Fellowship

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University of Minnesota materials science researcher Emily McGuinness is one of only five recipients nationwide of the 2024 L'Oréal USA For Women in Science Fellowship.

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Energy-Environment, Research

New study investigates insecticide contamination in Minnesota’s water

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A new study by researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities in collaboration with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) found that specific insecticides, called neonicotinoids, were found at high concentrations in some ground and surface water sources that could affect drinking water.

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Awards-Grants, Students

Chemistry Ph.D. candidate wins CSE Three Minute Thesis

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University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering Ph.D. candidate Sidharth Panda won the 2024 CSE Three Minute Thesis competition for the presentation, "Fixing Genes with mRNA Packages."

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Students

CSE alumnus offers a snore-free solution

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Loud snoring is a common symptom of sleep apnea, and Anders Olmanson, who holds two University of Minnesota degrees (biomedical engineering and medical device innovation) aims to fix that with a water-drinking nozzle.

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Nanotechnology, Research

New material to make next generation of electronics faster and more efficient

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Researchers at the University of Minnesota have achieved a new material that will be pivotal in making the next generation of high-power electronics faster, transparent and more efficient.

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Research

New imagery technique helps understand the Universe

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Researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities College of Science and Engineering have developed a new technique that reconstructs two dimensional (2D) radio images–visual representations created from radio waves–into three dimensional (3D) "Pseudo3D cubes" to help better understand objects in the Universe.