Awards and Recognition

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  • U in the News

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    Bill Doherty is interviewed in the Minnesota Public Radio story, “Reaching out to people who are still unvaccinated for COVID-19; Nichole Morris is interviewed in CBS Local about a study showing Twin Cities drivers aren’t stopping for pedestrians in crosswalks; Steve Kolbe is interviewed in the Minnesota Public Radio story, “For 2 weeks every August, Duluth is the nighthawk capital of the world”; Ann Masten is quoted in the New York Times story, “The Secret to Raising a Resilient Kid”; Doctors are dismayed by patients who fear coronavirus vaccines, but clamor for unproven ivermectin, with comments from David Boluware in the Washington Post; Rebecca Wurtz is quoted in a NBC News story about a study showing the delta variant doubles ta person’s risk of hospitalization; Logan Spector, Ellen Demerath, and Annie Hotop, are quoted in the Mpls St. Paul Magazine story, “Crowd Sourcing at the State Fair”; Ed Goetz is quoted in the Star Tribune story, “As Minneapolis faces rent control vote, experts caution it's not a cure-all”; John Thull is quoted in the Minnesota Public Radio story, “Drought drives good grape year in Minnesota.”

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  • NCI clinical trial awarded to reduce cervical cancer screening disparities in Somali-American women

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    A new clinical trial was awarded to Rebekah Pratt and Rachel Winer (University of Washington), along with co-investigators Rahel Ghebre, Timothy Ramer, Sophia Yohe, Bryan Weiner (University of Washington), and Adam Szpiro (University of Washington). The team received a $2,910,214 award from the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health for their clinical trial "Reducing cervical cancer screening disparities in Somali immigrant women through a primary care based HPV self-sampling intervention."

  • Refining immunotherapy for dairy cow mastitis

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    Aiming to improve health and well-being and to increase dairy cattle productivity while also reducing antibiotic use by the industry, a team of researchers led by Luciano Caixeta, assistant professor in the Department of Veterinary Population Medicine at the University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine, recently received $500,000 from the United States Department of Agriculture—National Institute of Food and Agriculture to refine immune-based solutions to prevent or treat mammary infections in dairy cattle. 

  • U in the News

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    Carolyn Liebler is quoted in a CNN story about why the census jump in the Native American population may be one of the hardest to explain; Stephen Parente is quoted in The Wall Street Journal about business groups suing over the healthcare price transparency rule; Amy Karger is interviewed in the CBS Local story, “U of M Researchers Study Effectiveness of 3rd COVID Shot”; Kurt Winkelmann is quoted in the Forbes story, “What If We Blew Up America's Retirement Savings System?”; Greg Lindsey is quoted in a Star Tribune story about the economic benefits of expanding the Midtown Greenway to St. Paul; David Nicolai is quoted in the Duluth News Tribune about drought impact variation; Kathleen Collins is interviewed in a KARE 11 story about a Minnesotan among those evacuated from Afghanistan; Mark Schleiss is quoted in Politifact about why the COVID vaccine is not among required school vaccinations; Fionnuala Ní Aoláin is interviewed in a Fox-9 story about what the Taliban takeover could mean for women in Afghanistan; Jon Hallberg is mentioned in a Minnesota Public Radio story COVID-19 vaccine booster shots; Maria Ponomarenko is interviewed in a Minnesota Public Radio story about Minneapolis police cutting back on pretextual traffic stops. 

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  • 2021 recipients of the Award for Global Engagement

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    The recipients of the 2021 Award for Global Engagement have been announced. The all-University Award for Global Engagement is given to faculty and staff members in recognition of outstanding contributions to global education and international programs at the University or in their field or discipline.

    • Abimbola Asojo, professor and associate dean, College of Design, Twin Cities
    • Sofia Mogilevskaya, research professor, College of Science and Engineering, Twin Cities
    • James L. David Smith, professor, College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences, Twin Cities
  • Wackerle-Hollman and colleagues awarded two $2 million grants

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    Alisha Wackerle-Hollman, a Department of Educational Psychology assistant research professor and co-director of the Individual Growth and Development Indicators lab, has received two grants from the Institute for Education Sciences (IES) National Center for Educational Research. Wackerle-Hollman and lab colleagues received a four-year, $2 million grant, fully funded by IES to develop “Individual Growth and Development Indicators for Hmong Preschoolers: High Quality Screening Tool for Diverse Learners.” A second four-year, $2 million grant fully funded by IES is for “Computer Adaptive Storybook Assessment.”

  • M Health Fairview ECMO life support program receives international recognition

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    During the pandemic, M Health Fairview University of Minnesota Medical Center treated the first COVID-19 survivor to successfully come off extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). A heart and lung bypass machine, ECMO has long been used to support people with a life-threatening illness or injury. In recognition of this innovation, M Health has received an Award of Excellence in Extracorporeal Life Support from the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization (ELSO). M Health was designated as a platinum-level center of excellence, the highest possible distinction from ELSO. ECMO uses a pump to circulate blood through an artificial lung, then back into a person’s bloodstream. In this way, it supports heart and lung function – buying time for severely-ill patients and giving their organs much-needed rest.

    The Award of Excellence in Extracorporeal Life Support recognizes programs across the world with the highest standard of care—both in the team, procedures, and systems they use to support critically-ill patients through ECMO.

  • Darrow named to Hennepin Healthcare Endowed Chair

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    David Darrow, Department of Neurosurgery, was recently named the Rockswold-Kaplan Endowed Chair for Traumatic Brain Injury by Hennepin Healthcare—the first time an endowed chair in the Hennepin Healthcare system has been awarded to a faculty member whose primary appointment is at the University of Minnesota Medical School. The endowed chair was established in 2014 through the generosity of Elliot and Eloise Kaplan.

  • University of Minnesota recognized as a 2021 top workplace

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    The University of Minnesota has been recognized as a National Standard Top Workplace by the Star Tribune. The evaluation for the Top Workplaces program is based on feedback from an employee survey that many of our employees systemwide completed earlier this year.

  • U in the News

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    Karen Diver is interviewed in the Minnesota Public Radio story, "Returning land to Native Americans"; Lidia Zylowska is quoted in the New York Times story, “How Do I Know if I Have Adult ADHD?”; Elizabeth Campbell is mentioned in a Forbes story about whether religion could be fueling the gender pay gap; Michael Osterholm is quoted in a Newsweek story about the potential for a COVID “doomsday” variant worse than Delta and Lambda; Bill Hedgcock is quoted in the Minnesota Public Radio story, “Why bronze medalists are likely happier than those who win silver”; new U of M deans discuss their positions in this Minnesota Daily story; Jodi Dworkin is quoted in a USA Today story about how to cut back on kids’ video gaming; Mark Schleiss is quoted in a Politifact story about the role of healthy eating and exercise in avoiding COVID; Jill Foster is quoted in a KSTP-TV story about the effectiveness of cloth masks against the delta variant; Kim VanderWaal is quoted in the New York Times story, “Giraffes May Be as Socially Complex as Chimps and Elephants.”