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PACK is a National Science Foundation-funded international research fellowship opportunity for graduate students (US citizens or permanent residents only) to conduct research at University of Kiel, Germany.Applicants can be from any science or engineering discipline.Goals:Provide graduate students further training and exposure in an international setting.Develop and strengthen collaborations between researchers in identified areas of research and form an international network in the emerging field of biomagnetic field sensing.Work toward solving some of the complex issues in the area of room-temperature solid-state brain imaging techniques.You can see complete information about the fellowship on their website: PACK International Research Experience Fellowship.An online (via Zoom) Q&A session about PACK Fellowships will be held on Friday, April 26, 2024 at 2 p.m.

Eight MSI PIs have been named Distinguished McKnight University Professors.

Breweries generate a very large amount of wastewater that must be purified prior to release into the environment.

The Technology Commercialization office has compiled a list of U of M researchers who were awarded U.S.

On Wednesday, April 3, 2024, MSI staff will perform scheduled maintenance and upgrades to various MSI systems.

MSI PI Phil Pardey (professor, Applied Economics) talks about agricultural R&D and its importance to everyone in an interview appearing on the College of Food, Agricultural, and Natural Resource Sciences (CFANS) website: Why you should care about ag R&D.Professor Pardey uses MSI for studies into the economics of international agriculture.

MSI PI Keith Barker (associate professor, Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior; Curator of Genetic Resources Collection, Bell Museum) appeared on a recent edition of WCCO-TV’s regular feature, Good Question.

Replacing a soon to be defunct operating systemDue to the end of support for the current cluster operating system (CentOS 7), the underlying operating system must be upgraded.

A 2022 TEDxMinneapolis talk by MSI PI Christy Haynes (professor, Chemistry) has been re-edited and elevated to the main TED website.

James “JJ” Johnson, who worked at MSI as a senior software developer for many years, passed away on March 1, 2024.

On Wednesday, March 6, 2024, MSI staff will perform scheduled maintenance and upgrades to various MSI systems.