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Inside This Issue:
Notice: Brief will publish on Thursday, Nov. 18, instead of its scheduled publication day of Nov. 17. Brief will not publish on Nov. 24.
- U of M establishes nation-leading tuition assistance program for Native American students.
- Features: Native Voices and Visions; Startup scales eco-friendly ingredients; Getting to the root of health disparities in kidney disease.
- Awards and Recognition: The Medical School and the College of Biological Sciences have received $8.5M to expand work studying non-dividing cells that increase with age; and more.
Inside This Issue:
- Statewide research program to address impact of racism on cardiovascular health inequities.
- Features: Beekeeping for veterans; Sharing her perspective on African American art.
- Awards and Recognition: Udall Center secures $11.3M to continue Parkinson’s disease and deep brain stimulation research; and more.
Inside This Issue:
- Institute for brain development opening this November.
- Features: Antiviral mask coating could strengthen protection against COVID-19; Relief from the ringing; A life-changing experience.
- Awards and Recognition: The School of Nursing has received the Health Professions Higher Education Excellence in Diversity Award; and more.
Inside This Issue:
- Board of Regents October meeting highlights.
- Features: The truth about clinical trials; Frozen in time.
- Awards and Recognition: The U of M has received $26 million in NIH grants to study early childhood brain development; and more.
Inside This Issue:
- Board of Regents meets Oct. 7-8.
- Features: Saving oaks: Remote sensing could detect invasive fungus earlier; Globalization, the bane of traditional languages and skills.
- Awards and Recognition: The University of Minnesota will host a new Midwest consortium dedicated to actionable climate science; and more.
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- Features: Next-generation science; A fertile niche.
- Awards and Recognition: Andrew Alleyne has been named the next dean of the Twin Cities College of Science and Engineering; and more.
Inside This Issue:
- University of Minnesota external research awards surge.
- Features: One Health: A world-changing approach; Minnesota dreamin'; Next-generation science.
- Awards and Recognition: Nisha Botchwey has been named the next dean of the Humphrey School; and more.
Inside This Issue:
- Board of Regents September meeting highlights.
- Feature: Closing the STEM gap.
- Awards and Recognition: U of M researchers are part of a new $25 million NSF-funded climate modeling center; and more.
Inside This Issue:
- Board of Regents meets Sept. 9-10.
- Features: A better environment, not slower aging, increases life expectancy; Pennycress makes cover cropping viable; Meet Michael Oakes, interim VP for research.
- Awards and Recognition: The U of M has been named a partner in an NSF-funded $15M Great Lakes innovation hub; and more.
Inside This Issue:
- Board of Regents acts to require immunization for students.
- Features: Redmon named first recipient of George Floyd Memorial Scholarship in Law; Three U of M alumni competing in the Paralympics.
- Awards and Recognition: A clinical trial has been awarded to reduce cervical cancer screening disparities in Somali-American women; and more.