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University of Minnesota engineering researchers discover new source for generating 'green' electricity

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University of Minnesota engineering researchers in the College of Science and Engineering have recently discovered a new alloy material that converts heat directly into electricity.

Karl Vollmers and John Scandurra
Energy-Environment

University of Minnesota startup to commercialize medical device for pulmonary hypertension

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The University of Minnesota has licensed technology to Aria CV, Inc., to develop and commercialize a medical device for the treatment of pulmonary hypertension.

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Energy-Environment, Research

Geology and Geophysics is now Earth Sciences

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To more accurately reflect the department’s current and future activities, the Department of Geology and Geophysics has changed its name to the Department of Earth Sciences.

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Medical-Health Technology

Researchers take a key step in the fight against antibiotic-resistant bacteria

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A University of Minnesota-led team of researchers has discovered how a genetic "switch" controls the spread of antibiotic resistance in certain pathogenic bacteria.

Medical-Health Technology, Research

CSE professors among those receiving U's research investment funding

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Several CSE professors are among those receiving research funds derived from the University’s share of technology commercialization royalties. 

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Computer science Ph.D. students are finalists in international programming contest

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Three University of Minnesota computer science and engineering Ph.D. students in the College of Science and Engineering are part of a team that is among only five international student teams selected as finalists for a computer programming contest sponsored by the National Science Foundation and Microsoft.

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Awards-Grants, Research

Student teams selected to pursue clean water, safe food projects in India

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Four teams of students from around the world, including two teams with University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering students, have been selected winners of the 2011 Acara Challenge.

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Mathematics graduate student awarded 2011 Rhodes Scholarship

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Prerna Nadathur, a graduate student in the College of Science and Engineering’s School of Mathematics at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, has been named a 2011 Rhodes Scholar. Nadathur, a graduate of Roseville Area High School in Roseville, Minn., received her undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago in the spring of 2010 where she majored in mathematics and minored in linguistics and philosophy.

Awards-Grants

Three CSE students named 2011 Barry M. Goldwater Scholars 

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Three University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering undergraduates have been named 2011 Barry M. Goldwater Scholars. This prestigious honor is awarded annually to outstanding sophomores and juniors in mathematics, science and engineering who intend to pursue research-oriented careers in mathematics, the natural sciences and engineering.

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University of Minnesota mathematics ranks fourth in the world

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The University of Minnesota is ranked fourth overall among the world’s most influential research universities in the field of mathematics, according to a new ranking released today in the London-based Times Higher Education magazine.