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Awards & Recognition

Melissa Kenney, Olivia LeDee, and Grant Domke to contribute to most comprehensive analysis of climate change in the U.S.

The Institute on the Environment fellows will report on the risks, and mitigation, and other responses to climate change.

Campus: Twin Cities

Categories: Agriculture and Environment


Members of Mothers Leading Science participate in a writing activity at white-clothed tables in a conference room.
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Mothers Leading Science continues to build and support community

Revolutionary for many attendees, the Clinical and Translational Science Institute program on the Twin Cities campus is helping faculty researchers—who are also mothers—navigate the joining of gender, parenthood, and professional careers in science and academia. 

Campus: Twin Cities

Categories: Health


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Awards & Recognition

Natural Resources Research Institute receives $8.2 million in federal funding for industry innovations

The U.S. Department of Energy grants will support four national laboratories developing transformational energy reduction technologies.

Campus: Duluth

Categories: Agriculture and Environment


Marilyn Stewart sits holding her honorary degree surrounded by one man and four women smiling to the camera.
Awards & Recognition

One of Rochester's strongest advocates receives honorary doctorate

The Board of Regents awarded Marilyn D. Stewart an honorary Doctor of Laws for her public service and leadership to establish a University of Minnesota campus in Rochester.

Campus: Rochester

Categories: Campus Affairs


Dana Davis looks on in a forest carrying a bag of collection containers while teaching.
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Dana Davis walks on the wild side

An interest in brewing yeast led the Nature of Life instructor in the College of Biological Sciences on the Twin Cities campus to help students discover yeast in unusual places—including animal scat.

Campus: Twin Cities

Categories: Science and Technology


Professor Aaron Lorenz walks through an end-of-season soybean crop field.
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An integrated approach to our food challenges

Addressing food insecurity continues to be one of the greatest challenges for our state, nation, and world. UMN Twin Cities CFANS researchers are taking a multifaceted and integrated approach to feed a growing population while carefully protecting our environment.

Campus: Twin Cities

Categories: Agriculture and Environment


An illustration of resources in Minnesota needed to support a green iron production plant. Image Credit: NREL/Kazaishvili
Awards & Recognition

Natural Resources Research Institute in Duluth awarded $1.3 million toward pursuit of green iron plant

The award marks a first-of-its-kind collaboration with industry, community, and government partners to transition bedrock American industries to a new era of global leadership.

Campus: Duluth

Categories: Agriculture and Environment


 A woman in a black and white striped shirt consoles a woman in a teal top on a couch.
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field leads study finding early adult mortality remains higher than expected

The findings from the Twin Cities associate professor in the College of Liberal Arts and colleagues in the School of Public Health will lead to further examination on how these deaths can be prevented.

Campus: Twin Cities

Categories: Social Sciences


A black and gold graduation stole with vertical African Kente cloth patterns and white text that reads "Multicultural Center for Academic Excellence - University of Minnesota."
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Alex Newby provides graphic design students a challenge outside the studio space

The Twin Cities College of Design lecturer had students design graduation stoles for the Multicultural Center for Academic Excellence's graduation celebration.

Campus: Twin Cities

Categories: Architecture and Design


Tim Stratton stands with two pharmacy students all dressed in white lab coats while speaking with a patient.
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Tim Stratton reflects on a dream realized

The professor in the College of Pharmacy on the Duluth campus has been the pharmacy faculty advisor of a student-run, free clinic since its beginning. 

Campus: Duluth

Categories: Health