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University of Minnesota professors and alumnus win international award for groundbreaking recommender systems research
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Three University of Minnesota computer science and engineering professors and an alumnus will receive the 2016 Seoul Test of Time Award at the World Wide Web Conference for their groundbreaking research on recommender systems
U of M student start-ups win 2016 Acara Challenge with innovative impact ventures
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A University of Minnesota impact venture run by two engineering students that focuses on providing clean water through micro-entrepreneurs is the winner of the top award in the International Division of the 2016 Acara Challenge.
University of Minnesota chemistry professor receives highest honor from U.S. government
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University of Minnesota Department of Chemistry Associate Professor Erin Carlson has been named by President Barack Obama as a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).
University of Minnesota named most innovative public university
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The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) named the University of Minnesota a winner of its fourth annual Innovation & Economic Prosperity University Awards.
Two University of Minnesota professors elected to the National Academy of Engineering
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University of Minnesota-Twin Cities mechanical engineering Professor David Y.H. Pui and civil, environmental and geo- engineering Professor Emmanuel Detournay have been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). Pui was elected as a new member and Detournay, who maintains citizenship in Belgium, was elected as a foreign member.
University of Minnesota senior wins prestigious science scholarship to Cambridge University
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Sammy Shaker, a senior in the College of Science and Engineering and University Honors Program at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, has been named a Churchill Scholar by the Winston Churchill Foundation of the United States.
Three CSE faculty named McKnight Land-Grant Professors
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Three College of Science and Engineering faculty members are among eight recipients of the 2016-18 McKnight Land-Grant Professorship, a program designed to advance the careers of the most promising junior faculty members who are at the beginning stages of their professional careers.
Professor Sally Gregory Kohlstedt wins History of Science Society’s Hazen Prize
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Sally Gregory Kohlstedt, Professor in the Program in History of Science and Technology at the University of Minnesota, has won the 2015 Joseph H. Hazen Education Prize for excellence in education from the History of Science Society.
Project to develop recyclable polyurethane foam wins $10,000 Dow SISCA prize
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A team of four Ph.D. candidates in the University of Minnesota’s College of Science and Engineering won the Dow Sustainability Innovation Student Challenge Award for their project aimed at developing polyurethane foam that can be recycled.
Professor Edwards elected as foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
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University of Minnesota earth sciences professor R. Lawrence Edwards in the College of Science and Engineering was elected as a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences for his excellence in original scientific research studying climate patterns in China.