Archive
Inside This Issue:
- Features: Where it starts; Law students help free client who spent 18 years in prison; Refresh and reset at winter’s best kept secret.
- Awards and Recognition: Keshab Parhi has been named a National Academy of Inventors Fellow; and more.
Inside This Issue:
- Features: Meeting of the minds; A sonic substitute for surgery; Using analytics to attack addiction; Top of Mind podcast: Mental health at the U of M.
- Awards and Recognition: The U of M has been selected by the Toyota Research Institute to participate in the next five-year phase of a collaborative research program; and more.
Inside This Issue:
- Features: Turning plants into everyday products; Hardwired for science; Explaining teamwork in male lions.
- Awards and Recognition: The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded the University a $5 million grant to address racial justice; and more.
Inside This Issue:
Winter schedule: Brief will not publish on Dec. 23, 30; Jan. 6, 13.
- Board of Regents December meeting highlights.
- Jan. 14 - Annual Legislative Kickoff Breakfast.
- Features: A port in the storm; Be the voice of the user: An interview with Simon Ozbek.
- Awards and Recognition: Melissa Anderson has been elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; and more.
Inside This Issue:
Winter schedule: Brief will not publish on Dec. 23, 30; Jan. 6, 13.
- Board of Regents meets Dec. 10-11.
- Features: Building a brighter future with robotics; More than a mask; An ally for Native American students.
- Awards and Recognition: Twenty-two faculty have been named to Clarivate Analytics’ 2020 highly cited researchers list; and more.
Inside This Issue:
Holiday schedule: Brief will not publish on Nov. 25 and Dec. 2, as well as Dec. 23, 30; Jan. 6, 13.
- Features: Leading while the world waits; Artificial intelligence, real-life results.
- Awards and Recognition: A team of researchers has received a $1.2 million grant to study smart tracking systems on scooters; and more.
Inside This Issue:
Holiday schedule: Brief will not publish on Nov. 25 and Dec. 2.
- Features: Finding the code to success; New approach could help cities address gender equity in transportation plans.
- Awards and Recognition: Michael Osterholm has been named to the Biden-Harris COVID-19 Advisory Board; and more.
Inside This Issue:
- Features: How I spent the summer of COVID-19; Immigration and Human Rights Clinic helps Mexican family win asylum; Global nutrient study explores ecosystem change, fuels learning.
- Awards and Recognition: The U of M will lead a $2 million NSF grant to create an international network to accelerate the discovery and development of quantum information systems; and more.
Inside This Issue:
- Features: Lucky No. 8 (and 972); Into the wild.
- People: Andrea Westby has been appointed as the inaugural holder of the newly created Josie Robinson Johnson Endowed Chair in Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion; and more.
Inside This Issue:
- Features: The costs and consequences of progress; Spotting metastasis before it starts; From lab to community immunity.
- People: The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded $87.5 million to create a new Manufacturing Innovation Institute at the University of Minnesota; and more.