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Researchers develop new one-step process for creating self-assembled metamaterials
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A team led by University of Minnesota Twin Cities researchers has discovered a groundbreaking one-step process for creating metamaterials. Their results show the realistic possibility of designing similar self-assembled structures for wide application in electronics and optical devices.
Transportation networks and viral spread
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Civil engineering assistant professor Raphael Stern is using transportation data from road traffic and flights to better model COVID-19 spread both locally and nationally.
Avatars to the rescue
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CSE assistant professor Evan Suma Rosenberg and his Ph.D. student Danhua Zhang developed a more immersive alternative to video conferencing—gophervr.org allows students, faculty and staff to interact remotely, minus the six-foot social distancing rule.
For Minnesota and the world
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When a pandemic strikes, researchers across our college are striving to understand it and help us live through it. They're also working the Minnesota Orchestra to understand aerosol spread with instruments.
The air we breathe
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Since the pandemic began, mechanical engineering faculty members Jiarong Hong and Suo Yang have been analyzing how the coronavirus can spread indoors, from classroom settings to the Minnesota Orchestra Hall.
A swift response
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Within weeks of the pandemic, CSE researchers in the Institute of Engineering Medicine designed three different types of face masks, constructed a low-cost ventilator alternative for physicians to use, and jumped in to address other COVID-related needs in the medical community.
Contributions to change
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In a world turned sideways, we adapt—much as we have in the past. See how University of Minnesota engineers and scientists have met the challenges of our nation at four crossroads in history.
Colliding stars reveal fundamental properties of matter and space-time
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Combining various observational data of neutron-star collisions with nuclear physics calculations, a team of researchers has made a breakthrough in discovering the mysteries of what is inside neutron stars.
Researchers discover new way to deliver DNA-based therapies for diseases
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Department of Chemistry researchers have created a new polymer to deliver DNA and RNA-based therapies for diseases.
Mind the data gap: Using machine learning to further global ecology
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Computer science professor Arindam Banerjee is using machine learning to study biodiversity worldwide as part of the University’s new Biology Integration Institute.