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Students

By the Numbers: Campaign update

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An investment in the College of Science and Engineering is an investment in innovation. See how donors are contributing to our 2021 campaign goals.

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Energy-Environment

Researchers release the most accurate map of Antarctica terrain

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A team of researchers led by the University of Minnesota and The Ohio State University have released the most accurate high-resolution terrain map of Antarctica ever created.

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Research

Researchers receive $8 million to study fundamental science of waves

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The University of Minnesota announced today an award of $8 million over the next four years from the Simons Foundation to an international collaboration to study the fundamental science of waves. The University of Minnesota will lead the collaboration.

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Students

Making the impossible possible

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Recent CSE graduate finds strength, opportunities, and mentors in the face of adversity.

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Corporate Partners

One company, two chairs

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TSI Incorporated endows second chair to honor alum and support faculty research

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Medical-Health Technology

Researchers 3D print prototype for ‘bionic eye’

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A team of researchers at the University of Minnesota have fully 3D printed an array of light receptors on a hemispherical surface. This discovery marks a significant step toward creating a “bionic eye.”

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Digital Technology

New material could improve efficiency of computer processing and memory

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A team of researchers led by the University of Minnesota has developed a new material that could potentially improve the efficiency of computer processing and memory.

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People-Profiles

Touching the face of the sun

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CSE physicists and alum are part of a NASA mission to understand coronal heating and the solar wind

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Medical-Health Technology

New 3D-printed device could help treat spinal cord injuries

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Engineers and medical researchers at the University of Minnesota have teamed up to create a groundbreaking 3D-printed device that could someday help patients with long-term spinal cord injuries regain some function.

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Medical-Health Technology

Professor Bischof named director of University's Institute for Engineering in Medicine

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Distinguished McKnight University Professor John Bischof has been appointed for a three-year term as director of the University of Minnesota Institute for Engineering in Medicine (IEM). He has served as interim director during the past year.