MSI News

In a recent paper appearing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, MSI PIs Chris Ellison (professor, Chemical Engineering and Materials Sciences) and Timothy Kowalewski (associate professor, Mechanical Engineering) and their colleagues describe a new extrusion process that will allow soft robots to “grow” as they move.

MSI is part of a new regional consortium for research computing and data infrastructure professionals in the Midwest.

Nitrous oxide is a potent greenhouse gas.

Octopuses are excellent hunters, using their eight arms to capture prey.

An interdisciplinary collaboration between University of Minnesota researchers and other universities has recently been awarded a $2.8 million grant from the National Science Foundation to study the formation and evolution of the Lake Superior basin.

MSI PI Steven Ruggles (Regents Professor; Director, Institute for Social Research and Data Innovation (ISRDI)) has been named a 2022 MacArthur Fellow.

The University of Minnesota has a long-standing breeding program for apples that can be grown in Minnesota’s cold climate.

Using data about fish kills in Minnesota and Wisconsin lakes, plus water and lake-water temperatures, MSI PI Nick Phelps (associate professor, Fisheries, Wildlife and Conservation Biology; director, Minnesota Aquatic Invasive Species Research Center) and colleagues have determined that, if temperatures continue to rise, so will the incidence of fish kills in northern lakes.

On Wednesday, October 5, 2022, MSI staff will perform scheduled maintenance and upgrades to various MSI systems.

MSI PI Paul Dauenhauer (professor, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science (CEMS)) will lead the Center for Programmable Energy Catalysis, a new Energy Frontier Research Center that has received $10.6 million over the next four years from the U.S.

MSI PIs Casim Sarkar (associate professor, Biomedical Engineering) and Samira Azarin (associate professor, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science) have developed a method to program the rate of a form of DNA editing called “site-specific recombination.” The new method will allow researchers to control the rate at which DNA is edited, which means they can control the speed at which a therapeutic cell produces a drug or therapeutic protein.

Climate change and land use are affecting the cold-water ecosystems of lakes in the Midwest.