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Inside This Issue:

  • Board of Regents February meeting highlights.
  • Fairview Health Services and U of M sign letter of intent.
  • Feature: Caring for Mary Lou: Treatment for facial pain.
  • Awards and Recognition: Announcing the recipients of the 2024-26 McKnight Land-Grant Professorship Award; and more.

Inside This Issue:

  • Feb. 8-9 - Board of Regents meeting.
  • U of M plans next steps to strengthen academic health system for all Minnesotans.
  • Feature: A new narrative for building confident young athletes.
  • Awards and Recognition: The Great Lakes ReNEW consortium will receive up to $160 million over 10 years as part of an inaugural NSF Regional Innovation Engines award; and more.

Inside This Issue:

  • Features: Phenotyping faster; Novel tool helps pinpoint elusive hybrid barberry and map its spread.
  • Awards and Recognition: The Clinical and Translational Science Institute recently received more than $5.3 million to provide comprehensive career development support for early-career faculty at the U of M; and more.

Inside This Issue:

  • Features: Transforming food shelves into friendly places with healthy food; Caring for Norman: Treating hands with heart.
  • Awards and Recognition: Jian-Ping Wang has been awarded the 2024 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Magnetics Society Achievement Award; and more.

Inside This Issue:

  • Features: What if we could “cure” aging?; After dual cancer diagnosis, Michael has a successful kidney transplant; Innovations for oak wilt detection and containment.
  • Awards and Recognition: U of M becomes nation’s first to receive community engagement distinction for every campus; and more.

Inside This Issue:

Notice: Brief will not publish on Dec. 27, Jan. 3, and Jan. 10. 

  • Features: Seeking equity in aging; Caring for Piper and her life-threatening birthmarks.
  • Awards and Recognition: Roger Ruan has been named a National Academy of Inventors Fellow; and more.

Inside This Issue:

Notice: Brief will not publish on Dec. 27, Jan. 3, and Jan. 10. 

  • Board of Regents December meeting highlights.
  • Brief newsletter preferences survey.
  • Awards and Recognition: Jenna Marquard has been inducted into the American College of Medical Informatics; and more.

Inside This Issue:

  • Dec. 7-8 - U of M Board of Regents meets.
  • Awards and Recognition: Georgios Giannakis has been elected as a 2023 International Fellow for the Royal Academy of Engineering; and more.

Inside This Issue:

  • Survivor elms key to revitalizing Minnesota’s elm population.
  • National Thanksgiving Turkey comes home following presidential pardon.
  • Feature: Fruitful change.
  • Awards and Recognition: A U of M research collaboration has received $3.5 million to study the transmission of viruses during commingling events; and more.

Inside This Issue:

Notice: Brief will not publish on Nov. 22.

  • Help, hope, and even some humor for an often hidden illness.
  • Awards and Recognition: Announcing the recipients of the Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Award; and more.