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Urgent shortages in Minnesota’s health care workforce are looming across the state as the Minnesota Department of Health reports one in three rural physicians plan to leave the workforce within the next five years. Similar trends are noted…

Gregg Goldman, a finance and operations leader with more than 30 years of experience working with some of America’s leading research universities with university medical centers, has been named the executive vice president for Finance…

University of Minnesota Twin Cities community members will see food delivery robots — powered by Starship Technologies — rolling around campus. They are part of the first University-run food delivery service on the Twin Cities campus and…

An important tool created to guide the development of vaccines against multiple potentially deadly Coronaviruses is being expanded. The Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) at the University of Minnesota will…

Since the state’s formative days more than 170 years ago, it has partnered with the University of Minnesota to provide Minnesotans the benefits of world-class education, cutting-edge research and innovation, and community-level…

Results from a decades-long field study in Minnesota reveal the dangerous impact of rising carbon dioxide and nitrogen pollution on grassland biodiversity. Though it’s well documented that nitrogen pollution decreases the richness of…

Access to job opportunities declined in large U.S. cities as economic and transportation conditions have continued to evolve in the COVID era, according to new research from the Accessibility Observatory at the University of Minnesota’s…

New research from the University of Minnesota shows that stress caused by negative interactions with police can increase epigenetic age, which is a biological indicator that can differ from chronological age. Previous research has shown…

Sweet-corn stalks, browned and sharpened by the late-summer sun, stand guard at the perimeter of Rae Rusnak’s squash fields in Kenyon, MN. Their main purpose? To protect the valuable squash that will land on children’s lunch trays in…

George Mason University researcher Aarthi Narayanan recently secured a $1.4M grant from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) to investigate how an infection spreads between organs, and how a therapeutic will impact connected…