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MSI’s Newest Supercomputing System, Agate, Has Been Selected

Agate, the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute’s newest supercomputer, is a Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) cluster.

HVAC Systems and COVID-19

Near the beginning of the shutdowns due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the University of Minnesota began to plan for safe return to classrooms.

Improving Turfgrass Breeding

Research by MSI PI Donald Wyse (professor, Agronomy and Plant Genetics) is featured on the website of the College of Food, Agricultural, and Natural Resource Sciences (CFANS).

MSI PIs Receive Distinguished Teaching Awards for 2020-21

Each year, the University of Minnesota presents the Morse-Alumni and Graduate and Professional teaching awards to recognize faculty who are committed to ongoing improvement of teaching and learning.

High-CBD Plants May Contain Too Much THC

Interest in cannabidiol (CBD) products by consumers has encouraged farmers to develop new varieties of cannabis that have higher levels of the compound.

MSI PIs Receive 2021-23 McKnight Land-Grant Professorships

Four MSI PIs are among the ten faculty members who have been named as the 2021-23 McKnight Land-Grant Professors.

Simulating Hypersonic Speeds

MSI PI Thomas Schwartzentruber (professor, Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics) and his collaborator Professor Graham Candler (Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics), who has also been an MSI PI, are featured in a recent story on the College of Science and Engineering (CSE) website.

Project Lets Citizen Scientists Help Lipids Researchers

The Minnesota Microscopy Infrastructure Partnership, which includes MSI PIs and partners, have begun a new citizen-science project on the platform Zooniverse to use inputs from the public to help determine the number size, and location of lipid droplets in cells.

MSI PI Victor Lai Receives Undergraduate Advising Award

MSI PI Victor Lai (assistant professor, Chemical Engineering - Swenson College of Science and Engineering, UMN Duluth) is one of the recipients of the 2021 John Tate Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising.

Cannabidiol and the Developing Brain

MSI PI Christopher Faulk (assistant professor, Animal Science) and colleagues have published a study that investigates the effect of cannabidiol (CBD) use during pregnancy.

New COVID-19 Tests

Several MSI PIs in the University of Minnesota Medical School and their colleagues have developed two new rapid diagnostic tests for COVID-19.

MSI PI Allison Hubel Named Director of Technological Leadership Institute

The University of Minnesota Technological Leadership Institute (TLI) has announced that their new director will be MSI PI Allison Hubel (professor, Mechanical Engineering).

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