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The Food Protection Defense Institute (FPDI) is excited to announce a new partnership with ToxStrategies, a “multidisciplinary scientific consulting firm that strives to develop innovative solutions to address the scientific, technical, and regulatory challenges confronting [their] clients.” FPDI… Read more

The Institute on the Environment (IonE) invites University of Minnesota members and community partners to respond to the Impact Goals Request for Proposals through March 14, 2023. IonE will competitively award grants and professional support to interdisciplinary teams of faculty, staff, and non-… Read more

PLOS -- the Public Library of Science –is a leading nonprofit publisher that seeks to make science and data publicly accessible. The organization recently published the first Open Science Indicators dataset (available for download from its website). The dataset defines and measures Open Science… Read more

Professor Michael Georgieff, MD, has been inducted into the Academy for Excellence in Health Research, the highest recognition of excellence in health science research offered by the University of Minnesota. Dr. Georgieff co-directs the Masonic Institute for the Developing Brain, a cross-… Read more

The University’s Research Ethics Day webinar on “What Makes Your Research Trustworthy? Threats and Opportunities” will be held on Wed., March 1 at 9:00am - 3:00pm Central Time by Zoom. This free national webinar will feature top speakers including Lyric Jorgenson, PhD, Acting Director of the Office… Read more

The U.S. Supreme Court made rulings in its 2021-22 term that impact public health law and will change how individuals and communities are able to manage public health challenges in the future. James G. Hodge, Jr., JD, LLM and co-authors have summarized these decisions in an article published in The… Read more

While Black, Hispanic, and Asian adults under the age of 65 are vaccinated at higher rates than White adults of the same age in Minnesota, COVID mortality rates for Black, Hispanic and Asian adults were higher than the mortality rate for White adults during the Delta and Omicron COVID waves,… Read more

The Center for Bioethics will present “Beyond Abortion: The Consequences of Overturning Roe,” on Friday, November 18 from 12:15 - 1:30pm. The webinar will feature Mary Faith Marshall, PhD, FCCM, HEC-C, Director, Center for Health Humanities and Ethics, and Director, Program in Biomedical Ethics at… Read more

Scholars from the Center for Science, Technology and Environmental Policy (CSTEP) and the University of Texas at Austin’s LBJ School of Public Affairs recently published a paper in Energy Research & Social Science that considers why some Community Based Organizations' (CBOs) participate in the… Read more

COVID-19 and its impacts have dominated the public health landscape since its emergence in late 2019.  The novel pathogen that causes COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) is not the only coronavirus to impact humans in recent years, and likely won’t be the last. In a commentary published in the journal… Read more