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Cattell named CSE Distinguished Professor
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Cynthia Cattell has been named as a College of Science and Engineering (CSE) Distinguished Professor.
Zooniverse Experiences Quarantine Surge
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Zooniverse is the world’s largest and most successful citizen science platform, with over 2 million people contributing to research worldwide.
Physics Professor creating a smartphone device for COVID-19 diagnostic test
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Professor Jochen Mueller of the School of Physics and Astronomy is part of a collaboration at the University of Minnesota that is building a device for smartphones that will help health care providers identify the COVID-19 virus, i.e., SARS-CoV-2. The collaboration is accelerating research during this unprecedented crisis directed at the development of a point-of-care diagnostic test for use by healthcare providers - particularly in resource poor locations - to rapidly identify the virus in under ten minutes.