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Inside This Issue:
- Researchers seek early indicators of cognitive impairment by analyzing social media data.
- High-res maps of entire polar regions provide new clues for climate researchers.
- Awards and Recognition: Researchers have been awarded $21M to lead research revealing the effects of vagus nerve stimulation in humans.
Inside This Issue:
- Nov. 1-30 - Benefits Open Enrollment.
- Awards and Recognition: School of Public Health receives $4.7 million to lead workforce consortium; and more.
Inside This Issue:
- Board of Regents October meeting highlights.
- Feature: Work to slow aging moves on a fast track; Using telemedicine to help families when they need it most.
- Awards and Recognition: Steven Ruggles has been awarded a MacArthur Fellowship; and more.
Inside This Issue:
- Board of Regents meets Oct. 13-14.
- Awards and Recognition: A U of M-led team has received initial funding from a $10M grant for the development of disease-resistant grapes; and more.
Inside This Issue:
- Engineers develop process that enables soft robots to grow like plants.
- Awards and Recognition: The U of M will play a key role in a study of Alzheimer’s Disease and related dementias funded by a $50.3M grant; and more.
Inside This Issue:
- Feature: An apple a day … the scientific way.
- Awards and Recognition: The U of M has been recognized as the top employer in Minnesota in Forbes’ 2022 “America’s Best Employers by State” list; and more.
Inside This Issue:
- Building a better world.
- Feature: The patient and the doctor who believed in something bigger.
- Awards and Recognition: Emily Vraga is part of a team that was awarded $5M from the NSF; and more.
Inside This Issue:
- Board of Regents September meeting highlights.
- Feature: Let’s just eat the bugs.
- Awards and Recognition: The U of M has been awarded nearly $22M to lead two Energy Frontier Research Centers; and more.
Inside This Issue:
- Board of Regents meets Sept. 8-9.
- U of M releases FY 2022 technology commercialization data.
- Awards and Recognition: The U of M has been awarded more than $3.5 million from the Department of Education in two separate grants for International Studies and African Studies; and more.
Inside This Issue:
- U of M at the Minnesota State Fair.
- Feature: The transplant patient who got lucky twice.
- Awards and Recognition: A U of M team has received a $3M NSF grant to implement a cross-college research traineeship program; and more.