MSI News

A story about the research of MSI PI Paul Iaizzo (professor, Surgery; Institute for Engineering in Medicine) appeared recently on the Lake Country Journal website.

The Nutrient Network, NutNet, is an international research collaboration studying the effect of nutrients on grasslands.

MSI PI Boris Shklovskii (professor, Physics and Astronomy) has been elected to membership of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS).

MSI PIs Sang-Hyun Oh (professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering) and Peter Larsen (assistant professor, Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences) and their colleagues have developed a new diagnostic technique that can be used to detect neurodegenerative diseases more quickly and accurately.

The University of Minnesota recently announced the new McKnight Presidential Fellows.

The U of M will lead a $2M NSF grant developing a system to study AI-powered news recommender systems.

U of M researchers, including MSI PIs Patrick Kelly (assistant professor, Physics and Astronomy; Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics) and Claudia Scarlata (associate professor, Physics and Astronomy; Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics), led a team that has used data from the new James Webb Telescope to discover a small galaxy that generated stars at an extremely high rate for its size.

The 14th annual Research Computing Exhibition was held on April 25, 2023.

On Wednesday, May 3, 2023, MSI staff will perform scheduled maintenance and upgrades to various MSI systems.

The University of Minnesota has received a grant from the Environmental Protection Agency to establish an Environmental Justice Thriving Communities Technical Assistance Center.

MSI PI Fang Li (professor, Pharmacology; co-Principal Investigator, Midwest Antiviral Drug Discovery Center) has been named a Healthcare Hero by the Minneapolis/St.

MSI PIs Colin DeYoung (associate professor, Psychology) and Nicola Grissom (assistant professor, Psychology) have both received CLA Brain Imaging Grants for Spring 2023.