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Research

Dark matter may not be completely dark after all

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For the first time dark matter may have been observed interacting with other dark matter in a way other than through the force of gravity.

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Medical-Health Technology

New evidence supports success of fecal transplants in treatment of Clostridium difficile infection

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Research published in the open access journal Microbiome offers new evidence for the success of fecal microbial transplantation (FMT) in treating severe Clostridium difficile infection (CDI), a growing problem worldwide that leads to thousands of fatalities every year.

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Awards-Grants, Students

Four University of Minnesota students named 2015 Goldwater Scholars

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Four undergraduates in the College of Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities have been named 2015 Barry M. Goldwater Scholars.

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Research

U of M lecture explores impact of 'citizen scientists' on research

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The Zooniverse is an online portal to help researchers solve many kinds of problems like finding differences between types of galaxies, counting craters on the moon, learning about climate change from transcribing weather data in ships records from World War I, and hunting for planets outside our solar system that may even be like Earth.

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Awards-Grants

University of Minnesota part of new nationwide initiative to attract and retain first-year students to STEM majors

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The University of Minnesota announced today that it is one of only 10 universities nationwide that are part of a new University Innovation Freshmen (#uifresh) initiative to retain students in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines.

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Awards-Grants

University of Minnesota student chapter of Engineers Without Borders receives national award

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The University of Minnesota student chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB) has been awarded the 2015 EWB-USA National Premier Chapter Award.

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Awards-Grants, Research

University of Minnesota selected as hub for NIH program to accelerate new inventions to the market

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The University of Minnesota announced today it has been selected by the National Institutes of Health as one of three Research Evaluation and Commercialization Hub (REACH) sites nationally to establish a university-wide strategic framework promoting commercialization and technology transfer in the life sciences and biomedical technology.

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Nanotechnology, Research

Imperfect graphene opens door to better fuel cells

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The honeycomb structure of pristine graphene is beautiful, but a national group of researchers has discovered that if the graphene naturally has a few tiny holes in it, you have a proton-selective membrane that could lead to improved fuel cells.