University of Minnesota

A new study shows that current trends in environmental degradation will lead to large economic losses in the coming decades, hitting the poorest countries hardest. But there is hope: investing in nature can turn those losses into…

University of Minnesota English alum Scott Z. Burns, who wrote the script for the 2011 movie Contagion, recently launched a still more ambitious “What if?”: an AppleTV+ series imagining a near future world (2037-70) increasingly damaged…

An international team led by the University of Minnesota has, for the first time, accurately determined the age and formation process of the East Anatolian fault, the site of two devastating earthquakes in Turkey and Syria in February…

The saffron robber fly (Laphria saffrana) is an extremely fast bee-colored hunter that has to determine, while perched, which insects it wants to chase and eat. This is complicated by the fact that its eyes have poor resolution,…

The more than 250 buildings on the Twin Cities campus generate a lot of waste. Fortunately, the University has a waste management program that has been nationally recognized for innovation in its recycling of paper, plastics, cans and…

The University of Minnesota today announced investments totaling $2.5 million across multiple Minnesota venture capital funds that will ultimately benefit start-up companies in the state. This is the first in a series of significant…

During the past year, more than 625 Gopher student-athletes added to the many recent academic and athletic achievements of the Twin Cities athletics department. As part of their annual report at the Board of Regents’ July meeting, Gopher…

Racial disparities in U.S. COVID-19 deaths narrowed substantially from the first to the second year of the pandemic. While this has been touted as a major sign of progress, new research found this sharp decline mostly resulted from an…

At the conclusion of a day-long meeting that featured public interviews with four finalists and extensive discussion about each, the Board of Regents selected Jeff Ettinger to serve as the University’s interim president following the…

University of Minnesota researchers recently led successful efforts to build the first genome for Pallas’s cat (Otocolobus manul), a small wild cat native to central Asia known for its grumpy facial expression. The cat, which faces…