University of Minnesota

Minnesota State and the University of Minnesota have entered into a collaboration to reimagine nursing education and address the growing shortage of nurses in Minnesota. The newly formed Coalition for Nursing Equity and Excellence (CNEE)…

A team led by University of Minnesota researchers and undergraduate students is constructing two sets of extremely fast telescopes that will enable more detailed studying of gravitational waves and light created by colliding black holes…

A University of Minnesota-led team of researchers received the first round of funding from a $10 million grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to follow up on their work with VitisGen2, a multi-disciplinary,…

As the University continues to advance dozens of goals outlined in MPact 2025, the U of M’s systemwide strategic plan, leaders from its Office of Equity and Diversity (OED) will discuss next week how OED supports successes among the…

The University of Minnesota is playing a key role in an upcoming study of Alzheimer’s Disease and related dementias (ADRD) that will re-contact more than 14,000 Americans from the high school class of 1972 to study how education affects…

The COVID-19 pandemic put the U.S. public health system under the microscope and if there was any clarity that developed around the U.S. response, it was that when it came to emergency preparedness in public health, the U.S. was woefully…

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the American Council on Education (ACE) announced today that U of M President Joan Gabel accepted the invitation to serve on the Carnegie Classifications Institutional…

Famous for their eight arms, octopuses leverage all of their appendages to move, jet through the water and capture prey. But their movements can look awkward and seemingly unplanned at times, more closely resembling aliens than earthly…

University of Minnesota School of Public Health (SPH) researchers who reviewed data from the CARDIA study, including 20 years of diet history and 30 years of physical and clinical measurements, have found that participants who ate walnuts…

A team of engineers and doctors at the University of Minnesota have designed a unique 3D-printed light-sensing medical device that could help millions of people worldwide with lupus and other light-sensitive diseases by providing access…