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, noting that for every $1 invested in
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, geneticists, bioethicists and even a group of high-school students from Shattuck-St.
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.
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 th
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 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, plus $3 million in matching dollars from the university, will support between 10 and 20 commercialization projects per year centered around areas such as diagnostics tools, medical devices and preventative medicine.
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.