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Summer publication: Brief will publish next on Aug. 14. Weekly publication resumes Aug. 28.

• Joan Gabel takes office.
• Board of Regents July meeting highlights.
• Features: White House endorses U of M–led kidney care effort; CSE recent grad creates autonomous robot for farms; Fostering food justice; The cornerstone of health and wellness.
• People: Three faculty have received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers; and more.

Summer publication: Brief will publish on June 26, July 17, and Aug. 14. Weekly publication resumes Aug. 28.

• Regents invite comments on 2020 proposed operating budget.
• Features: Balancing values: how attitudes about money affect relationships; The right squeeze; Here are the rules: overcoming barriers in language development; Going global.
• People: U of M researchers have received a $3.7 million NIH grant for autism research and are part of a $9.5 million grant awarded to the Infant Brain Imaging Study Network; and more.

Summer publication: Brief will publish on May 29, June 12 and 26, July 17, and Aug. 14. Weekly publication resumes Aug. 28.

• Board of Regents May meeting highlights.
• Features: Addressing walleye habitat loss in Mille Lacs and other lakes; His greatest teaching challenge.
• People: The U of M will lead a $12.8 million study on education's role in deterring Alzheimer's and other dementias; and more.

• Regents take action related to historic building names.
• Features: Innovative approach; Going cell-to-cell with ovarian cancer; Charting her own course.
• People: Trevor Ames has been named associate vice president for academic health sciences; and more.

• Features: Working with communities to end addiction; Opportunity for everyone; The female formula; A stimulating treatment for mental illness.
• People: The U of M recently honored the innovation and entrepreneurship of its top researchers; and more.

• Features: Explorers of the inland seas; Working and giving together; Battle of the bots; Full potential.
• People: New McKnight Presidential Fellows named; and more.

• President Kaler delivers his final State of the University address.
• Features: Back to the start; Hyper drive; Enhancing dairy farm profitability.
• People: Newly named Distinguished McKnight University Professors; and more.

• Board of Regents meets March 7-8.
• 2019 State of the University Address.
• Features: “Atlas” maps Minnesota's natural resources; Increasing and sustaining the benefits of early education.
• People: Recipients of 2018-19 Distinguished Teaching Awards; and more.

• President Kaler responds to Governor Walz’s budget recommendation.
• Features: Improving autism intervention; Stimulating idea; Giving gets real; Eyes on the Wild at Cedar Creek.
• People: 2018-19 recipients of the John Tate Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising; and more.

• Board of Regents meets Feb. 7-8.
• Features: Faculty re-think the rural retail experience; Report finds that rural Minnesotans have greater need for paid family leave; ‘Making it home’ in regional small towns.
• People: Dante Cicchetti is a recipient of the 2019 Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award; and more.

• Features: U of M researchers discover how to treat diastolic heart failure; She is ME; Design as a force for good.
• People: U of M researchers received a $1.4 million grant for ovarian cancer research; and more.

• External research funding reaches record level.
• Features: Fighting iron deficiency; More to bubbles than you think.
• People: Recipients of the Grand Challenges Research Interdisciplinary Team Awards; and more.

• Joan Gabel named U of M presidential finalist.
• Board of Regents meets Dec. 13-14.
• Features: Can exercise delay dementia symptoms?; Clean air, healthy swine; Letting nature do its work.
• People: Carol Ishimaru and Natalia Tretyakova have been elected AAAS fellows; and more.

PUBLICATION SCHEDULE: Brief will not publish Dec. 26 or Jan. 2. Weekly publication will resume Jan. 9.

• Features: Retail Transformation by Design: collaborating to build rural business; Keeping aging brains healthy: lessons from genes; Researchers stop ‘sneaky’ cancer cells in their tracks; Brown rot, green energy.
• People: U of M alumnus Alan Page was recently awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom; and more.

• Features: Sowing the Seeds of Success: a new set of learning tools for Minnesota’s farmers; Bringing back the bison; Stopping the spiny water flea; Faith-based medicine; Outwitting oat rust.
• People: The College of Science and Engineering will lead and house a new $10.3 million Center for Spintronic Materials in Advanced Information Technologies; and more.

• Features: From Garlic to Grocery: turning empty trucks into bigger business for rural Minnesota; Startups help medical discoveries reach patients, clinics; Move to better housing has opposite effects on girls’, boys’ binge drinking.
• People: The Borchert Map Library is the recipient of the Governor’s Award; and more.

• Board of Regents October meeting highlights.
• Features: Our Lake, Our Legacy: protecting Minnesota’s life at the lake; Researchers discover new type of stellar collision; Researcher makes history at the bottom of the world.
• People: Diane Wiese-Bjornstal has been inducted into the National Academy of Kinesiology; and more.

• New Driven to Discover campaign launches.
• U of M, University of Minnesota Physicians, and Fairview Health Services agreement.
• Feature: The First Kiss: worth waiting for.
• People: The Robina Institute will participate in a national research and reform effort to make probation and parole systems fairer and more effective; and more.

• Board of Regents September meeting highlights.
• Features: On ice; More than the sum of its parts.
• People: Michael Goh has been appointed vice president for equity and diversity; and more.

• Features: Researchers 3D print prototype for ‘bionic eye’; Turtle power; No simple decisions.
• People: U of M researchers have received $8 million to study the fundamental science of waves; and more.

• The Great (University of) Minnesota Get-Together.
• Features: Bee love; To touch the sun; New 3D-printed device could help treat spinal cord injuries.
• People: The Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota has announced the first Chainbreaker Breakthrough Cancer Research Grant; and more.

Summer publication: Brief will publish on Aug. 8 and 22. Weekly publication will resume Aug. 29.

• Board of Regents July meeting highlights.
• Features: The tick warrior; Bell Museum’s new planetarium brings the universe home; Care for the caregiver; Keeping ecosystems complex; University research a common thread at new Bell Museum.
• People: President Kaler has announced his decision to step down as president on July 1, 2019; and more.

Summer publication: Brief will publish on June 20, July 18, and Aug. 8 and 22. Weekly publication will resume Aug. 29.

• Board of Regents will meet June 7-8.
• Features: Scientists discover new magnetic element; Can Zika fight cancer?; A brain out of tune; Genetic ‘switches’ linked to longer lifespans in mammals; Democracy of care.
• People: Two U of M research teams have received this year’s Minnesota Futures grants; and more.

Summer publication notice: Brief will publish on May 16, June 6 and 20, July 18, and Aug. 8 and 22. Weekly publication will resume Aug. 29.

• Board of Regents meets May 10-11.
• Features: Portrait in perseverance; The global earthworm invasion.
• People: Peter Reich and Mikhail Shifman have been elected as members of the National Academy of Sciences; and more.

• Features: Her passion for cheese changed the family farm; Biomedical engineering faculty study how tumor cells move in patients; Developing the right skills for the job; Grassland plants react unexpectedly to high levels of carbon dioxide.
• People: The Heritage Studies and Public History Graduate Program has been awarded a Mellon Foundation Grant; and more.

• U of M launches cancer clinical trials network.
• Feature: From battlefield to business.
• People: Five new McKnight Presidential Fellows have been named; and more.

• Board of Regents meeting highlights.
• Features: A gene that preserves brain cells; Taking aim at cancer; Ending addiction in our communities.
• People: Announcing the newly named Distinguished McKnight University Professors; and more.

• State Relations update: Supplemental Budget Request.
• Features: See it in 3-D; Forage-based diets on dairy farms produce nutritionally enhanced milk; Restoring health after cancer; Giving for good.
• People: The Minnesota Partnership for Biotechnology and Medical Genomics has awarded five new research grants for collaborative projects; and more.

• Features: Non-invasive brain stimulation could help treat cerebral palsy; Scientists poised to win the race against rust disease.
• People: Announcing the 2018 recipients of the University-wide Distinguished Teaching Awards; and more.

• Board of Regents meeting highlights.
• 2018 State of the University address.
• Features: Maroon and gold in the Olympics; Tracking brain health through life; Narrowing the diabetes race gap.
• People: Lori Carrell has been named chancellor of the University of Minnesota Rochester; and more.

• U of M Legislative Kickoff events.
• Features: Researchers use wild rice to predict health of Minnesota lakes and streams; Harmful turned harmless; A Decade of Connecting.
• People: Nine faculty members have been named as the 2018-20 McKnight Land-Grant Professors; and more.

• Features: Seeing Alzheimer’s disease; Vital years; New discovery could improve brain-like memory and computing; Point A to Point B.
• People: Sri Zaheer has been appointed a Class C director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis; and more.

Notice: Brief will not be published on Dec. 20, Dec. 27, and Jan. 3. The weekly schedule returns Jan. 10.

• Board of Regents meets Dec. 14-15.
• Features: Researchers 3D print lifelike artificial organ models; A wolf den and an opportunity; Too many nutrients make microbes less responsive.
• People: Apostolos Georgopoulos was recently awarded the American Legion Distinguished Service Medal; and more.

• Features: After cancer; Carbon emissions by plant respiration will have large impact on climate; MN-REACH drives medical innovation.
• People: Nabil Matar will receive the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences award; and more.

• Features: Access to jobs by transit increases in many U.S. metros; New technology makes oak wilt detection faster, more affordable; U of M study affirms new strategies for reducing achievement gap.
• People: Pinar Karaca-Mandic has received a $1.6 million grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; U in the News features highlights of U faculty and staff cited in the media; and more.

• Driven to Discover: Joseph Gaugler.
• Features: ‘I think I can’ is key to closing achievement gap in biology education; Nutritious U; Biology exams can put female students at a disadvantage; A new way to measure photosynthesis.
• People: Recipients of the second phase of the U of M Driving Tomorrow research investments for interdisciplinary collaborations have been announced; and more.

• Driven to Discover: Neil Henderson.
• Board of Regents October meeting highlights.
• Features: A quest to drill below the earth’s oldest ice; U scientists engineer species-like barriers to reproduction; Map of micronutrients shows importance of small and medium farms.
• People: The NSF has awarded a $2.5 million grant to a team of researchers led by the U of M for a project to improve the quality of life in cities; and more

• Driven to Discover: Marilyn Bruin.
• Features: Researchers set sights on land-based invasive species.
• People: The Center for Magnetic Resonance Research has been awarded a grant from the National Institutes of Health’s BRAIN Initiative; and more.

• Features: Cultivating a culture of curiosity; Planting grass seed? Most Twin Citian residents water too much.
• People: Melissa Koenig is the recipient of a 2017 Sara Evans Faculty Woman Scholar/Leader Award; and more.

• The Board of Regents will meet Sept. 7-8.
• Features: Curing a dangerous infection; Attacking the problem; Borderlands.
• People: CEHD has been recognized as the top public school of education in the Academic Ranking of World Universities’ 2017 college rankings; and more

Notice: This is the last issue of Brief until weekly publication resumes on Aug. 30.

• Ten great UMN things to do at the fair.
• Features: MAISRC announces six new projects; New U report explores sex buyers in Minnesota; On her own path to end world hunger.
• People: The NSF has awarded the U of M nearly $4 million to boost retention of underrepresented students in STEM; and more.

Summer publication: Brief will publish on July 26 and Aug. 9. Weekly publication will resume Aug. 30.

• Board of Regents meets July 12.
• Features: Middle-class wages have stagnated over time; Sustainable rubber and plastics become a reality; Study finds link between community’s rate of military sacrifice, Trump support; Humphrey School partnering on research to help Greater Minnesota; Study determines what makes ‘successful’ smile.
• People: Recipients of the 2017 Research Infrastructure Investment Program; and more.

Summer publication schedule: Brief will publish on June 21, July 12 and 26, and Aug. 9. Weekly publication will resume Aug. 30.

• State Relations update.
• Regents invite comments on proposed 2018 operating budget.
• Features: Shaping Somali youth and family success; The science of meditation; We’re on the brink of mass extinction--but there’s still time to fix it; Help astronomers find ‘baby’ galaxies. 
• People: Three U of M researchers have received Minnesota Futures grants; and more

• Board of Regents May meeting highlights.
• Features: 3D-printed ‘bionic skin’ could give robots the sense of touch; MnTAP interns save businesses time, resources, and money; Professor Peter Reich: Connecting people to climate research.
• People: Deborah Swackhamer will receive the Warren A. Hall Medal; and more.

• Driven to Discover: Protecting human rights with Samuel Myers.
• Features: Species spread in spurts; UMTC joins American Talent Initiative in national effort.
• People: Recipients of the President's Award for Outstanding Service; and more.

• Support the U on Apr. 24.
• Driven to Discover: Protecting human rights with James Ron.
• Features: 3D-printed patch can help mend a broken heart; New projects to research terrestrial invasive species; Made in Minnesota; Scientists need your help in census of seals.
• People: Megan Gunnar, Sarah Hobbie, and Marlene Zuk have been elected to the American Academy of Arts And Sciences; and more.

• Urge lawmakers to support the U.
• Features: Matching grad student skills with regional business needs; CTS celebrates 30 years; Range contraction puts species at risk; Ethanol’s land impacts.
• People: Carol Strohecker has been named dean of the College of Design; and more.

• Board of Regents meets March 23-24 in Duluth.
• Features: "Super sponge” promises toxic cleanup of lakes and more; Researchers develop process for creating ultra-selective separation membranes; Mapping Prejudice in Minneapolis.
• People: 2017 IDEA Multicultural Research Award recipients; and more.

• Urge lawmakers to support the U.
• State of the University address highlights.
• Features: New technology rewarms large-scale tissues preserved at low temperatures; Study finds secret to diverse forests’ success; Three Good Things about addiction recovery.
• People: 2017 recipients of Distinguished Teaching Awards; and more.

• Reminder: State of the University address.
• Features: Opioid prescriptions in the crosshairs; Zuzia's new skin; From orange peels to yoga pants; Researchers assist in identifying autism biomarkers in infancy.
• People: U Libraries has received a $1.5 million gift from the Wallin Foundation; and more

• U of M Regents meet Feb. 9-10.
• Driven to Discover: Ending addiction with Kelvin Lim.
• Feature: Reinventing MRI.
• People: The U of M Law School has received a $25 million gift from the Robina Foundation; and more.

• U of M featured in NY Times Sponsored Content.
• Driven to Discover: Ending addiction with George Wilcox.
• Feature: Report shows immigrants play vital role in future of state workforce.
• People: The U of M will join as a partner in the National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals; and more.

• State Relations Update.
• Features: Research shows people can control a robotic arm with their minds; Coming home to hunger; How overworking employees costs automakers millions; Growing fresh greens year-round.
• People: U Libraries has received an $88,000 Minnesota Historical and Cultural Grant to make key Minnesota literary archives more accessible; and more.

• Board of Regents will meet Dec. 8-9.
• Driven to Discover: Abolishing hunger with Vipin Kumar.
• Features: Losses of soil carbon will accelerate pace of climate change; IonE researchers produce first map of worldwide farming households; Building a culture of health across the United States.
• People: J.B. Mayo has received the Josie Johnson Human Rights and Social Justice Award; and more.

• Driven to Discover: Abolishing hunger with Philip Pardey.
• Features: U of M scientists assist in breakthrough wheat gene research; The other side of the bars; Study finds affordable housing crisis worsened after recession; Seeking educational equity.
• People: 2016 recipients of the Award for Global Engagement; and more.

• Features: How a child’s mind works; New discovery could help oral medicines work better.
• People: The Women’s Foundation of Minnesota and the governor’s office have announced the Young Women’s Initiative of Minnesota, a first-of-its-kind public-private partnership; and more.

• Driven to Discover: Closing the Opportunity Gap with Michael Rodriguez.
• Features: Speaking for the Voiceless; U of M buys community solar subscription.
• People: U researchers have been awarded a $2.6 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Basic Energy Sciences; and more

• Board of Regents will meet Oct. 13-14.
• Driven to Discover: Closing the Opportunity Gap with Philip Zelazo.
• Features: Body as canvas; Rendezvous with an earthquake.
• People: The Immigration History Research Center has been chosen to receive the 2016 Equity and Diversity Outstanding Unit Award; and more.

• New Driven to Discover campaign launches.
• Features: Researchers identify unexpected cause of mutation in cancer; Popular geosciences app gets upgrade; New study measures traffic congestion and job access. 
• People: David Masopust has been named to the inaugural class of Howard Hughes Medical Institute Faculty Scholars; and more.

• Board of Regents meeting highlights.
• Driven to Discover: Luis Ramos-Garcia.
• Features: "Together, we'll change the world" video; To break down stereotypes about librarians.
• People: U of M researchers have been awarded a $4 million NIH grant to launch the Baby Connectome Project; and more.

• Driven to Discover: David Ernst.
• Features: U of M Venture Center launches record 17 startups; America's wars take uneven toll; Covering more ground; Set up for success.
• People: Aaron Sojourner has been appointed to President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers; and more.

• Driven to Discover: Shane Nackerud.
• Features: How a flawed supply chain affects mental illness; Studying the heart, hands-on.
• People: Denise Young named executive director of the Bell Museum + Planetarium; and more.

Brief summer publication dates: July 20, Aug. 3, 17, and 31. Weekly publication resumes Sept. 7.

• State Relations Update.
• Driven to Discover: Dan Keefe.
• Feature: Breakthrough in early detection of Alzheimer's.
• People: Christopher Uggen has been named Regents Professor; and more.

• State Relations Update.
• Driven to Discover: Ryan Pesch.
• Feature: Printing a human heart; Core facilities drive research forward.
• People: Nicholas Phelps has been named director of the Minnesota Aquatic Invasive Species Research Center; and more.

Summer publication notice: Brief will publish May 18; June 1, 15, and 29; July 13; and Aug. 3, 17, and 31. Weekly publication resumes Sept. 7.

• Board of Regents meets May 12-13.
• U of M Public Budget Forum.
• Driven to Discover: Mike Whalen.
• People: Recipients of the 2016 President's Award for Outstanding Service; and more

• State Relations update.
• Driven to Discover: Tim LaPara.
• Features: Proving the Theory; Curtain Up.
• People: Regents Professor Timothy Lodge has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; and more

• Driven to Discover: Sarah Holtman.
• Feature: How size and lifestyle rule the plant world.
• People: 2016 Distinguished McKnight University Professors named; and more.

• Board of Regents meets March 30-31.
• Driven to Discover: Tasoulla Hadjiyanni.
• Features: A look back at U of M research spaces; Up in the Air; Student Start-ups Go Big.
• People: Professors George Karypis, Joseph Konstan, and John Riedl (posthumous) have won the 2016 Seoul Test of Time Award; and more.

• State Relations Update.
• Driven to Discover: Paul Capel.
• Feature: A Critical Mass for Computational Biology.
• People: Ran Blekhman has been named a 2016 Sloan Research Fellow; and more.

• Driven to Discover: D. Subbaram Naidu.
• Feature: Driven to Fight for Educational Equality. 
• People: Erin Carlson has been named a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers; and more.

• Board of Regents February meeting highlights.
• Driven to Discover: Daniel Larkin.
• Feature: Gravitational waves rock the physics world; True story; Living Our Own Story: An Interview with Moin Syed.
• People: Recipients of the 2016 John Tate Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising; and more.

• Driven to Discover: Jeff Coulter.
• Feature: New technology aids quest for dormant genes. 
• People: The National Jurist has named Professor Joan Howland to its annual list of the 25 most influential figures in American legal education; and more.

• Driven to Discover feature: Charlie Miller.
• Feature: Preparing Students for a World of Grand Challenges.
• Governor announces bonding recommendations.
• People: Eight faculty members have been named as the 2016-18 McKnight Land-Grant Professors; and more.

• Board of Regents meeting highlights. 
• Driven to Discover feature: Tracy Sherbert.
• Features: A Workforce to Thwart Infectious Diseases; Fossil Teeth Point to Early Exodus from Africa.
• People: Regents Professor R. Lawrence Edwards has been elected as a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences; and more.

• Driven to Discover feature: Angela Panoskaltsis-Mortari.
• Feature: Better Together.
• People: Daniel Forbes has been named the Schulze Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship; and more.

• Driven to Discover feature: Keith Mayes.
• Features: A Novel Way to Write; Rebel in a White Coat.
• People: Renee Frontiera has received a National Science Foundation CAREER program award; and more.

• Driven to Discover feature: Jigna Desai.
• Features: Work matters; The Bird-Watchers; Made to Order.
• People: Dante Cicchetti, Allen Isaacman, and Donald Truhlar have been inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; and more.

• Driven to Discover feature: Cawo Abdi.
• Features: For the Zachs and the Karens; Finding their center.
• People: Xiang Cheng is among 18 of the nation's most innovative early-career scientists and engineers as a recipient of the 2015 Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering; and more.

• New Driven to Discover campaign launches.
• U of M Board of Regents meets Oct. 8-9.
• Features: Practicing mindfulness in the workplace.
• People: Andrew Furco has been inducted into the Academy of Community Engagement Scholarship; and more.

• AAU survey data on Sexual Assault and Sexual Misconduct released.
• Features: Goldy Discovers; A Champion for Education and Housing.
• People: UMTC has received the 2015 Higher Education Excellence in Diversity Award from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine; and more.

• Board of Regents meet Sept. 10-11.
• Features: Swinging for the Fences; Can Remote Monitoring Improve Alzheimer's Care?; Micro Organisms, Macro Effects.
• People: U of M researchers are part of a team that has received a $20 million NSF grant to evaluate the impact of nanotechnology on the environment; and more.

• #UMNonaStick at the Minnesota State Fair.
• Features: Willing to Be a Match; What Feeds (and Feeds on) Invasive Plants; Study Shows Hemp and Marijuana are Genetically Different.
• People: David Flannigan is one of eight people nationwide to be named a 2015 Beckman Young Investigator; and more.

• Board of Regents meeting highlights.
• Features: Taming Tremors; Teaching in the Garden; Driving Golf into the Future.
• People: Thirteen proposals have been chosen for funding through the 2015 Research Infrastructure Investment Program; and more.

• Board of Regents meeting highlights.
• State Relations update.
• Features: Infant Antibiotic Use Linked to Adult Diseases; Preventing child abuse; Unwavering.
• People: The Board of Regents has named R. Lawrence Edwards, Vipin Kumar, and Michael Osterholm Regents Professors—the highest level of recognition given to faculty by the University; and more.

• Human Subjects Research draft work plan released.
• State Relations Update.
• Features: Hope for Alzheimer's sufferers; Clothing for a cause.
• People: Burckhard Seelig has been awarded the Simons Investigator Award; and more.

• Board of Regents meet May 7-8.
• Features: Ready to Create the Future; Cancer-killing Nanoparticles; Protecting Us from Avian Flu.
• People: Gordon Legge has been awarded the 2015 Helen Keller Prize for Vision Research; and more.

• Follow up on April 17 New York Times report.
• Regents public forum: Human subjects research practices.
• Feature: The U of M's oldest professor is teaching his last semester.
• People: Economist Tim Kehoe and art historian Matthew Canepa and have been named Guggenheim Fellows; and more.

• State of the U Address highlights.
• U establishes achievement gap research hub.
• New Grand Challenges courses.
• People: UMTC has been named by Forbes magazine and Statista as one of America’s Best Employers of 2015; and more

• U Commits to Decisive Action to Improve Human Subjects Research Program.
• Board of Regents meets March 26-27.
• Features: Cancer in the Crosshairs; U gains cloud-based access to global satellite imagery.
• People: Professor of Veterinary Medicine Stanley Diesch is among the recipients of the 2015 Siehl Prize for Excellence in Agriculture; and more.

• State Relations Update.
• Feature: Research supercharges rice; Researchers call for expanding role in rebuilding Somalia; New ‘wonder material’ for optical communication.
• People: Professor Massoud Amin has been named Thought Leader of the Year by Energy Thought Summit; and more.

• State Relations Update.
• Features: Tiny technology to deliver big disease treatments; Video: It Goes into the Ground … and Disappears.
• People: Chemistry professor Marc Hillmyer has been named a McKnight Presidential Endowed Chair; and more.