CSE in the News
July 2026
University of Minnesota receives DOE Genesis Mission funding to advance AI breakthroughs
“The Genesis Mission brings together the scientific expertise, engineering capability and advanced computing needed to accelerate discovery,” said Andrew Alleyne, dean of the University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering. Aug. 18: County News Review
Catalysis chemists are joining forces for reproducibility
“The dream is [my research] gets used someday for something useful, and so I definitely want things to be repeatable,” says Courtney Roberts, an associate professor of chemistry at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. Aug. 12: Chemical & Engineering News; Aug. 14: EurekAlert; Semiconductor; Newswise; Aug. 15: Phys.org; Scienmag; Bioengineer.org; Aug 16: Manufacturing Today; (8 as of Aug. 17 at 8:45 a.m.)
Need for speed? Driving above the speed limit costs you — and doesn't actually save much time
“University of Minnesota researchers analyzed 120 million vehicle trips across the United States from four Wednesdays in 2021 using driving data on national road networks, speed limits and U.S. Geological Survey elevation data. The analysis included roads with speed limits of 45 mph (72 kph) and higher. Aug. 12: The Arcadian; The Brighter Side; Aug. 14: Carrier Management; (3 as of Aug. 17 at 8:50 a.m.)
Bioxytran Reports Encouraging Clinical Observations In First Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy (CIDP) Patient Treated With PLICID, A Novel Galectin Antagonist Designed With Artificial Intelligence
PLICID is a complex carbohydrate drug designed through Bioxytran's proprietary Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI)-driven drug design platform, developed with researchers at the University of Minnesota Department of Chemistry. Aug. 11: MENAFN
The infrastructure nobody wanted is the infrastructure everyone uses
The 100-day doubling claim wasn’t just optimistic. It was wrong by an order of magnitude, and the person who proved it was Andrew Odlyzko, a mathematician then at AT&T Labs and later the University of Minnesota. Odlyzko’s research on internet traffic growth found that actual demand was increasing 75% to 150% annually, not doubling every three months. Aug. 7: Tech Finitive
Big boats create wake of problems
In 2020, researchers at the University of Minnesota’s St. Anthony Falls Laboratory began studying how the larger waves and turbulence produced during wake-surfing compare to those from traditional recreational boats. They found that wake-surfing waves contain three to nine times more energy than waves generated by conventional motorboats and can travel hundreds of feet before dissipating. Aug. 6: Forest Lake Times; Aug. 16: Stillwater Gazette (2 as of Aug. 17 at 8:40 a.m.)
University of Minnesota receives three DOE Genesis
The College of Science and Engineering secured all three awards, which feed into a broader campus push through the recently launched AI Hub. That initiative coordinates curriculum updates, workforce development and cross-departmental collaboration to standardize responsible AI practices across the research enterprise. Aug. 6: Complete AI Training
Quantum Geometry Drives Nonlinear Transport in Bloch Bands
Researchers have uncovered a “fully coherent, purely geometric sector” within the third-order response to electric fields, revealing how a material’s internal geometry influences electrical behavior. The work, authored by Sami Farrag of the University of Minnesota, Eugene Mele of the University of Pennsylvania, and Tony Low of the University of Minnesota, builds a “hierarchy” of geometric descriptors using a mathematical tool called the Bargmann trace. Aug. 3: Quantum Zeitgeist
University of Minnesota Develops Underwater Robot Technology That Reads Diver Stress by Analyzing Bubbles
A research team at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities announced that they have developed a system to monitor a diver's condition by observing the bubbles in their breath using an AI robotic vision system. Aug. 2: iRobot News (Translated from Korean); Aug. 9: Earth.com; Aug. 15: Health Medicine Network; (3 as of Aug. 17 at 8:40 a.m.)
