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Three MSI researchers, C. Daniel Frisbie (CEMS), Claudia Schmidt-Dannert (BMBB), and Jian-Ping Wang (ECE) have received 2012 Distinguished McKnight Professorships. This program recognizes outstanding mid-career faculty at the University of Minnesota. Recipients receive the title of Distinguished McKnight Professor, which they retain for as long as they stay at the University of Minnesota, plus a five-year, $100,000 grant.

You can watch a short video about MSI by the Office of Business Relations on the OVPR Business blog.

MSI is pleased to announce the availability of Cascade, our new GPGPU (General Purpose Graphical Processing Unit) resource. For more information, please see our Cascade page and our Cascade Quickstart Guide.

The MSI Research Informatics Support Systems (RISS) program is hosting a Meet and Greet on March 22, 2012. The event will take place on the fourth floor of Walter Library, 1:00-3:00. Members of the University research community are invited to meet the RISS staff and learn about MSI's informatics resources. Light refreshments will be served.

MSI regrets to announce that the 2012 REU program was not funded, and therefore we have had to cancel it. We hope to be able to hold a program in Summer 2013. We will post information on our website in Fall 2012.

A 2001 MSI summer undergraduate intern, Zack Garbow, is the co-founder of a company that provides web-based technologies to the funeral industry. Mr. Garbow was an MSI intern in the group of MSI Fellow David Yuen (Earth Sciences) and worked with Professor Yuen’s group until 2004. A description of Mr. Garbow’s internship project appears in the Winter 2002 Research Bulletin.

MSI Associate Fellow Tim Griffin (BMBB) and his colleagues are featured in a UMNews story about research that may result in a simple saliva test for cancer. Professor Griffin uses MSI resources for proteomic analysis.

MSI PI Michael Travisano (Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior) is the lead author on a paper about how multicellular organisms developed, published recently in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. These researchers use MSI resources for genome sequencing related to their work with yeast. Read more about this research and watch a video on the UMNews website.

An MSI Principal Investigator, Professor Bin He (Biomedical Engineering), was featured on the premiere episode of "Impact the World," a new series on the Big Ten Network. Read more about Professor He’s research and see videos from the program at the University’s News release.