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Eight interdisciplinary projects that promote environmental sustainability received (collectively) $1.1M in funding from the Institute on the Environment's (IonE) 2023 Impact Goals grant program. Funded projects will focus on carbon neutrality, clean drinking water, healthy food systems, land use,… Read more

Professor Francis Shen, JD, PhD, was presented the American Law Institute’s Early Career Scholars Medal at their 2023 annual meeting. The award “recognizes outstanding law professors whose work is relevant to public policy and has the potential to influence improvements in the law.”  Prof. Shen is… Read more

A new study published in Nature Communications reports that University of Minnesota researchers in the Engineering Research Center for Advanced Technologies for the Preservation of Biological Systems (ATP-BioSM) are one step closer to developing long-term cryopreservation and storage techniques for… Read more

Researchers led by Michael Garwood, PhD, of the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, have developed a prototype for a portable MRI scanner that could be used to serve rural and underserved populations. Human trials on the new device will begin this summer if safety standards are met. Garwood is… Read more

Urban streams often become increasingly polluted as municipalities expand around them. It can be challenging to quantify the benefits of improving their ecological health. A national team of researchers, including Melissa Kenney, PhD, and Hillary Waters, PhD, of the University of Minnesota's… Read more

To mark the end of the federal Public Health Emergency for COVID-19, several members of the Biden-Harris Transition COVID Advisory Board, including Michael Osterholm, PhD, MPH, Director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) and co-moderator of the Consortium’s COVID… Read more

A panel of leaders in the Minnesota COVID response met for a May 10 webinar to consider the lessons for the next pandemic. The panel -- moderated by Regents Professor and Consortium Chair, Susan Wolf, JD, who co-led the Minnesota COVID Ethics Collaborative (MCEC), and Medical School Vice Dean Ana… Read more

Center for Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy (CSTEP) Co-Directors Bonnie Keeler, PhD, and Gabriel Chan, PhD, received a $10 million grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to establish an Environmental Justice Thriving Communities Technical Assistance Center (EJ TCTAC) at… Read more

Consortium Communications Intern and Research Assistant Madeline Beglinger received the University of Minnesota President’s Student Leadership and Service Award, which recognizes exceptional leadership and service to the University of Minnesota community. Beglinger is a Senior pursuing a B.S. in… Read more

Professors Susan Wolf, JD, and Robert Green, MD, MPH, have published a new article in the Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics examining the rationale for offering genetic results to participants in research involving large-scale and whole genome sequencing (gRoR). They discuss the growing… Read more