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New Award Celebrating Research Impact

The Office of the Vice President for Research has created a new program to celebrate the impact of University of Minnesota research.

MSI PI Receives DARPA Young Faculty Award

MSI PI Suo Yang (assistant professor, Mechanical Engineering) has received a Young Faculty Award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

U-Spatial 2021 Mapping Prizes

U-Spatial has named the winners for their 2021 Mapping Prizes.

Erin Sheets Named Fellow of IAspire Leadership Academy

MSI PI Erin Sheets (professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry, UMD; associate dean, Swenson College of Science and Engineering, UMD) has been named a fellow of the IAspire Leadership Academy, a leadership program that helps STEM faculty from underrepresented groups attain leadership roles at colleges and universities.

Trial to Reduce Cervical Cancer Screening Disparities in Somali American Women

MSI PI Sophia Yohe (associate professor, Laboratory Medicine and Pathology) is a co-investigator on a clinical trial that aims to reduce disparities in cervical-cancer screening in Somali American women.

Novel COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate

MSI PIs Fang Li (professor, Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences) and Marc Jenkins (Regents Professor, Microbiology and Immunology) and their colleagues have developed a novel vaccine that might be effective against COVID-19 and its variants.

Using Pennycress as a Cover Crop

Research by MSI PIs Donald Wyse (professor, Agronomy and Plant Genetics) and David Marks (professor, Plant and Microbial Biology) is featured in a recent story on the Office of the Vice President for Research Inquiry blog.

Reducing Dairy Cow Mastitis

Mastitis, an infection of mammary tissue, is a serious problem in dairy cows, requiring the use of antibiotics.

Iron and the Developing Brain

Research by MSI PI Phu Tran (assistant professor, Department of Pediatrics) and others is featured in a recent story in Minnesota Alumni magazine.

Treating SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Animals

COVID-19MSI PIs were among the researchers who have developed a possible drug that can both prevent and treat SARS-CoV-2 infections in animals.

2022 UMII-MnDRIVE PhD Graduate Assistantship Program

UPDATEMSI’s Research Computing partner, the University of Minnesota Informatics Institute (UMII), has opened the application period for the MnDRIVE Graduate Assistantship program.

Improving Ammonia Production

ENGINEERINGMSI PIs Paul Dauenhauer and Prodromos Daoutidis, both professors in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, are part of a project to develop new ways to generate ammonia from renewable energy sources.

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