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Students

Physics student awarded U.S. Department of Energy research program award

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Zachary Loren Robinson is one of only 52 graduate students from across the nation selected by for the Department of Energy’s 2017 Office of Science Graduate Student Research Program.

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Students

CSE students share insights from their internship with Land O'Lakes

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As Land O’Lakes’ Global Food Challenge Emerging Leaders, mechanical engineering majors Rachel Anderson and Audrey Sebastian traveled to Africa where they learned how to take a global approach to solving world hunger.

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Students

CSE by the numbers: Going global

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This infographic gives a few numbers that tell you more about our college’s international student and alumni population.

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Energy-Environment

Engines lab receives $1.4M grant to improve delivery vehicle energy efficiency

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The Thomas E. Murphy Engine Research Laboratory announced that it has been awarded a $1.4 million federal grant to research ways to boost energy efficiencies in cloud-connected delivery vehicles.

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Giving

U launches fundraising campaign with goal of $4 billion by 2021

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The University of Minnesota has announced the public phase of a 10-year, system-wide fundraising campaign with a goal to raise $4 billion by 2021. The College of Science and Engineering goal is $250 million.

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Research

University of Minnesota completes $92.5 million renovation of historic Tate Hall

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The University of Minnesota has completed major construction on a $92.5 million renovation of historic Tate Hall that include state-of-the-art research labs, classrooms, offices, and public space for star-gazing.

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Medical-Health Technology

3D technology helps separate conjoined twins

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3D virtual reality technology developed by engineers at the University of Minnesota Earl E. Bakken Medical Devices Center helped doctors to perform the first successful separation of conjoined twins joined at the heart.

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Energy-Environment, Medical-Health Technology

U of M startup CoreBiome provides services to accelerate microbiome discovery across industries

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The University of Minnesota announced the launch of CoreBiome Inc., a startup company based on University technology that provides analysis of microbial communities for improving human health, agricultural, environmental applications.

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Research

U of M launches record 18 startup companies in FY17

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The University of Minnesota announced today that it launched a record 18 startup companies in fiscal year 2017 based on discoveries and inventions by its researchers. Eleven are based on CSE research.

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Students

CSE students tackle global food security during Land O'Lakes fellowship

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CSE students Rachel Anderson and Audrey Sebastian are two of only 11 university students from the Midwest who were chosen to be part of the Land O’Lakes Global Food Challenge Emerging Leaders for Food Security fellowship.