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Two CSE alumni receive Outstanding Achievement Awards

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CSE alumni Tu Chen and Thomas Rusch are honored for their outstanding leadership and achievement.

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Technological Leadership Institute Director Massoud Amin receives Visionary Leader Award from Cyber Security Summit

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Professor Massoud Amin has received the 2015 Visionary Leader Award from Cyber Security Summit

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Awards-Grants

Flannigan named 2015 Beckman Young Investigator

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Assistant Professor David J. Flannigan is one of eight recipients nationwide to be named a 2015 Beckman Young Investigator (BYI) and will receive a grant of $750,000 to support his research, “Unraveling Charge/Orbital Ordering, Magnesium and Lattice Dynamics with Ultrafast Electron Microscopy.”

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Three named University of Minnesota Regents Professors

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The University of Minnesota Board of Regents has named R. Lawrence Edwards, Vipin Kumar and Michael Osterholm Regents Professors.

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U of M chemistry professor elected to 2015 class of American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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Professor Donald G. Truhlar has been elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Truhlar is the first Department of Chemistry faculty member to receive this honor.

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Awards-Grants, Students

Four University of Minnesota students named 2015 Goldwater Scholars

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Four undergraduates in the College of Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities have been named 2015 Barry M. Goldwater Scholars.

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University of Minnesota part of new nationwide initiative to attract and retain first-year students to STEM majors

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The University of Minnesota announced today that it is one of only 10 universities nationwide that are part of a new University Innovation Freshmen (#uifresh) initiative to retain students in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines.

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University of Minnesota student chapter of Engineers Without Borders receives national award

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The University of Minnesota student chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB) has been awarded the 2015 EWB-USA National Premier Chapter Award.

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Awards-Grants, Research

University of Minnesota selected as hub for NIH program to accelerate new inventions to the market

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The University of Minnesota announced today it has been selected by the National Institutes of Health as one of three Research Evaluation and Commercialization Hub (REACH) sites nationally to establish a university-wide strategic framework promoting commercialization and technology transfer in the life sciences and biomedical technology.