News & Publications

Five years ago today, the Deepwater Horizon oil platform exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven workers and causing environmental and economic destruction. In the aftermath of the disaster, the Consortium presented a lecture by Prof. Daniel Farber, JD, of the Center for Law, Energy and the… Read more

Yesterday the Consortium hosted the final event in the 2014-15 Lecture Series on Law, Health & the Life Sciences. An overflow crowd of researchers, physicians, pharmacologists, informaticists, genetic counselors and others had the opportunity to hear about work being led by Dr. Muin Khoury… Read more

In a wide-ranging talk called "Land of 10,000 Lakes: Water for Our Future," Prof. Deborah L. Swackhamer, PhD, discussed Minnesota's water supply and possible shortages ahead. An article in MinnPost provides an overview of the lecture and includes charts demonstrating how Twin… Read more

An article in Forbes outlines the argument for investing in the grid to build the US economy, quoting Massoud Amin, engineering professor at the University of Minnesota and chairman of the IEEE Smart Grid. “This vision is also about job creation and economic benefits,” Amin said… Read more

Prof. Susan M. Wolf spoke today on "The Challenge of Creating Rules for Translational Science: Return of Results and Incidental Findings in Genomics" as part of the Center for Bioethics Seminar Series. Prof. Wolf presented to a diverse group that included researchers, physicians… Read more

Brian Herman, vice president for research at the University of Minnesota, was featured today in the Washington Post describing the dearth of funding available to young scientists. Only 1 in 6 NIH grant proposals is awarded, and the average age at which researchers obtain… Read more

An article in The Atlantic describes how the work of University of Minnesota public health researchers Ancel Keys, Henry Blackburn and their colleagues influenced a physician in Finland to pioneer a strategy that reduced male cardiovascular deaths by 80 percent in the North… Read more

Professor Alexandra B. Klass of the Law School has been named a Distinguished McKnight University Professor—one of just five University of Minnesota faculty members to receive the distinction this year. The Distinguished McKnight University Professorship program recognizes the… Read more

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded $3 million to the University of Minnesota to ramp up commercialization of health care technologies. NIH picked the U as one of three new Research Evaluation and Commercialization Hubs (REACH) nationwide. The funding,… Read more

Independent news outlet Epoch Times published an article in which Lewis Gilbert of the Institute on the Environment (IonE) calls for a fundamental rethinking of how we address the effects of climate change. Lewis argues for "a policy framework that focuses more on innovation and… Read more