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The Institute on the Environment (IonE) will host the Midwest Climate Adaptation Science Center (CASC), a consortium of higher education and natural resource institutions that will seek to advance actionable science meant to address the climate crisis affecting Midwestern ecosystems. The Midwest… Read more

The Healthy Foods, Healthy Lives Planning Grant Program provides funding meant to establish interdisciplinary faculty research teams or community-university research partnerships related to food, nutrition, and health. Grant funding will range from $5,000 to $10,000 for one year; higher levels of… Read more

The Water Resources Center (WRC) and its partners are requesting proposals for the Watershed Innovations (WINS) program. The WINS program supports researchers as they address important water resource issues in Minnesota, collaborate with interdisciplinary partners, educate students and… Read more

The University of Minnesota’s Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) is celebrating its 10th anniversary! CTSI accelerates the application of new scientific discoveries in clinical settings by providing funding for promising studies and offering … Read more

Consortium Chair Susan Wolf has been appointed to the new Strategic Council for Research Excellence, Integrity, and Trust by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. The Academies website reports that the council is tasked with “identifying, anticipating and… Read more

Profs. Francis Shen, Susan Wolf, and co-authors recently published “Emerging ethical issues raised by highly portable MRI research in remote and resource-limited international settings,” in NeuroImage. Preparation of this article was supported by an NIH Bioethics Supplement. The… Read more

The University of Minnesota Board of Regents recently granted Consortium Chair Susan Wolf the highest level of recognition given to University faculty by naming her a Regents Professor. Prof. Wolf is an internationally recognized scholar in law, biomedicine, and bioethics. Her groundbreaking work… Read more

Researchers from the Food Protection and Defense Institute (FPDI) warned the Food and Drug Administration in May that the U.S. agricultural supply chain was vulnerable to a cyberattack. Less than two weeks later, meat processing plants across the country were shut down due to a ransomware… Read more

Prof. Michael Osterholm, Director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP), and other experts recently published an article that recommends immediate action to improve COVID prevention at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics. As current prevention measures do not follow several… Read more

Join the Clinical & Translational Science Institute (CTSI) on Wednesday, June 2 from 12:30 - 1:30pm Central time for “Taming the regulatory beast in federal and other multi-site trials.” Panelists will discuss NIH/Common Rule requirements for a single IRB in… Read more