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Inside This Issue:

  • Board of Regents meets Feb. 9-10.
  • Awards and Recognition: Barbara Kleist is a recipient of a 2023 Policy Award from the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities; and more.

Inside This Issue:

  • University leaders share vision for health care with state representatives.
  • Help support state funding for the University’s work.
  • Awards and Recognition: Announcing the recipients of the 2023-25 McKnight Land-Grant Professorship award; and more.

Inside This Issue:

  • New research shows humans impact wolf packs in national parks.
  • Feature: Life as we don’t know it; Clean water with Kernza.
  • Awards and Recognition: Aamina Ahmad's debut novel won the Best First Novel prize by the Writers Guild of Great Britain; and more.

Inside This Issue:

  • U of M announces MPact Health Care Innovation vision.
  • Feature: Who owns our water?
  • Awards and Recognition: Faith Miller and Amanda Sullivan have been awarded a $5.9 million Department of Education grant; and more.

Inside This Issue:

Notice: Brief will not publish on Dec. 28, Jan. 4, and Jan. 11.

  • Board of Regents December meeting highlights.
  • Feature: Once a patient, always family.
  • Awards and Recognition: Academies for Excellence 2022 inductees.

Inside This Issue:

Notice: Brief will not publish on Dec. 28, Jan. 4, and Jan. 11.

  • Board of Regents meets Dec. 15-16.
  • Researchers use ultrasound waves to move objects hands-free.
  • Feature: Aging well.
  • Awards and Recognition: The College of Pharmacy has been awarded a $6.5 million contract to continue work on contraceptive development; and more.
     

Inside This Issue:

  • Creativity and the brain.
  • Awards and Recognition: The College of Continuing and Professional Studies recently received a $32.5 million gift; and more.

Inside This Issue:

  • U of M and DEED launch $34.5M Minnesota Venture Capital Programs.
  • New research shows link between nature conservation and human well-being.
  • Awards and Recognition: The School of Nursing has received a $1.5 million grant to increase the number of doctorally prepared American Indian/Alaska Native nurses; and more.

Inside This Issue:

Notice: Brief will not publish on Nov. 23.

  • Red-supergiant supernova images reveal secrets of an earlier universe.
  • Feature: A passion for fighting the leading cause of death.
  •  Awards and Recognition: Announcing the recipients of the 2021-22 Imagine Fund awards; and more.

Inside This Issue:

Notice: Brief will not publish on Nov. 23.

  • Researchers to develop Genomic Data Commons hub.
  • Features: The changing face of Miss Minnesota; Need transplant, will travel.
  • Awards and Recognition: Lois Hendrickson and Emily Beck have received a $100,000+ Minnesota Historical Society grant; and more.