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Three CSE faculty members named 2010 AAAS fellows
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Three University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering professors have been named fellows to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Space shuttle astronaut to speak at U of M Oct. 28
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Space shuttle astronaut Capt. Daniel Brandenstein will give a free public talk and present two University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering students with $10,000 scholarships at a special event 12:35-1:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 28, in Coffman Memorial Union, Mississippi Room, 300 Washington Ave., S.E., Minneapolis.
Researchers to study connections of the human brain
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Researchers at the University of Minnesota will lead a $30 million study designed to map the connections of the human brain.
College of Science and Engineering Alumni Society selected to receive alumni award
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The College of Science and Engineering (CSE) Alumni Society will receive a University of Minnesota Alumni Association 2010 Program Extraordinaire Award at a celebratory event honoring premier volunteers, groups, and programs on September 29, 2010 in the McNamara Alumni Center.
Researchers to study off-shore wind energy storage
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The National Science Foundation has awarded the University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering researchers a four-year, $2 million grant to lead a national research team to develop a localized method for storing off-shore wind energy.
Environmental and energy research lab awarded $7.1 million for renovations
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The St. Anthony Falls Laboratory (SAFL), an interdisciplinary research unit of the College of Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota, was recently awarded $7.1 million from the National Science Foundation to renovate its facility on Hennepin Island.
University of Minnesota math institute receives $20.5 million NSF grant
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The University of Minnesota’s Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) has been awarded a $20.5-million National Science Foundation (NSF) renewal grant over the next five years.
U of M to get $7 million for NASA trip to the Sun
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Researchers in the University of Minnesota’s College of Science and Engineering will be part of an experiment on NASA’s Solar Probe Plus, a spacecraft that will travel closer to the sun than ever before.
IBM announced that the global annual IBM Faculty Award has been presented to Professor Jiali Gao
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University of Minnesota Chemistry Department and Biomedical Informatics and Computational Biology professor Jiali Gao has received an IBM Faculty award for his research contributions in the development of novel quantum mechanical methods, including the explicit polarization (X-Pol) potential and multistate density functional theory (MSDFT) for chemical and biological systems ranging from a single electron to fully solvated proteins.
University of Minnesota team to lead $10 million NSF project on advancing the study of global climate change
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A multi-disciplinary team of researchers led by University of Minnesota computer science professor Vipin Kumar in the University’s College of Science and Engineering has been awarded a $10 million grant from the National Science Foundation to study climate change.