News & Publications

Led by Dr. Brian A. Nosek of the Center for Open Science and University of Virginia, members of the National Academies’ Strategic Council for Research Excellence, Integrity, and Trust have posted a new paper designed to help researchers, their institutions, and the public evaluate the… Read more

Jeffrey Miller, MD, has been appointed Interim Director of the Masonic Cancer Center (MCC), a Consortium Member Center, replacing Douglas Yee, MD, who led the organization with distinction for the past 18 years. Dr. Miller first joined the University of Minnesota’s Department of… Read more

A groundbreaking collection of 10 articles in the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics maps the huge potential and oversight challenges of emerging biopreservation technologies to stop biological time. These technologies to revolutionize organ transplantation, pathogen research, food systems,… Read more

The University of Minnesota’s Institute on the Environment (IonE), a Consortium Member Center, has opened the application process and nominations for the 2025 Sustainable Land and Water Resources Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program. The research opportunity is a… Read more

The University of Minnesota’s Water Resources Center (WRC), a Consortium Member Center, will soon launch a national search for its next director. Jeff Peterson, PhD, who has led WRC since 2015, announced that he will return full time to the faculty of the Department of Applied… Read more

UMN Professors Susan Wolf, JD, Chair of the Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment & the Life Sciences, and John Bischof, PhD, Director of the NSF-funded Engineering Research Center for Advanced Technologies for the Preservation of Biological Systems (ATP-Bio),… Read more

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine have published the Proceedings of an innovative workshop addressing the need for ethics guidance to support research leaders, especially in the context of larger teams and research networks, This new publication, “On Leading a Lab:… Read more

The International Institute for Biosensing (IIB) has joined the Consortium as its 22nd Member Center. Patricia Khashayar, MD, PhD, MBA, serves as Director of IIB, which operates within UMN’s Research Computing. IIB is a global initiative that brings together experts from academia,… Read more

Leading ethics experts and researchers have co-authored a breakthrough paper calling for new governance and legal rules to guide application of emerging technology to preserve organs for transplant. Authors of a recently released publication in the American Journal of Transplantation, “… Read more

The latest edition of the Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology (MJLST) includes scholarly articles based on its 2024 Symposium “Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Legal Research and Decision-Making: Opportunities and Risks.” The Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology is a… Read more