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September 2020 Maintenance
On Wednesday, September 2, 2020, MSI staff will perform scheduled maintenance and upgrade to various MSI systems. Primary Storage, Mesabi, and Mangi will be unavailable throughout much of the day. A global system reservation will start at 5:00 a.m. CDT on September 2. Jobs that cannot be completed before 5:00 a.m. on September 2 will be held until after maintenance and then started once the system returns to production status.September maintenance will include:
How Aerosols Travel in Lungs
MSI PI Suo Yang (associate professor, Mechanical Engineering) is studying how coronavirus travels through the lungs. Professor Yang’s primary research, for which he uses MSI resources, includes first-principles based modeling and simulation of reacting flows, including combustion, turbulence, soot aerosols, and plasma physics, and their multiscale interactions. This expertise translates to simulations of how SARS-CoV-2 travels through the respiratory system.
Using Food Waste for Resources
Two MSI PIs are leading a project to create systems that use food waste to create heat, energy, and fertilizer.
Chris Cramer Receives ACS Scholar Award
MSI PI and Vice President for Research Chris Cramer (Chemistry) has received a 2021 Arthur C. Cope Late Career Scholar Award from the American Chemical Society (ACS). The award recognizes VP Cramer’s excellence in organic chemistry. A story about his research and this award appears on the chemistry department website: Christopher Cramer Receives ACS Arthur C.
Finding Genetic Markers for Diabetes
Two MSI PIs from the School of Public Health (SPH), Professors Baolin Wu (Biostatistics) and Jim Pankow (Epidemiology and Community Health), are leading a project that will seek to identify which parts of the human genetic code are associated with diabetes. This will help researchers develop personalized treatment for the disease.
Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology
The Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology, a multi-institutional research center, has received a five-year, $20M grant from the National Science Foundation to continue their research.
Using UV Light to Fight Virus
MSI PI Chris Hogan (professor, Mechanical Engineering) was interviewed by tv station KSTP recently to talk about using UV light to kill the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. Several companies, such as the airline JetBlue, M Health Fairview, and HVAC companies are trying out various systems that use a type of UV light called ultraviolet germicidal irradiation on equipment and surfaces.
Filtering Particulate Matter From the Atmosphere
Particulate matter, tiny particles of sulfates, nitrates, and carbon found in air pollution, is a serious health hazard. MSI PI David Pui (Regents Professor, Mechanical Engineering) and his team are working with researchers in India to install 60-foot towers that will filter these particles out of the air. This project continues research that involved modeling such towers in locations around Beijing, China.
New NSF Engineering Research Center
The University of Minnesota and Massachusetts General Hospital have received a National Science Foundation (NSF) award to create a new Engineering Research Center (ERC). NSF awarded $26 million over five years to fund the ERC for Advanced Technologies for the Preservation of Biological Systems (ATP-Bio).
Creating SARS CoV-2 Spike Proteins
MSI PI Wei-Shou Hu (professor, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science) and members of his research group are working with researchers at the University of Minnesota Medical School to develop a method to grow SARS CoV-2 spike proteins. These spike proteins, which cover the outside of the virus and allow the virus to attach to cells, are used by researchers across the world to understand the properties of the novel coronavirus and to develop vaccines.
New Center to Study Brain Anatomy in Addiction
Researchers from the University of Minnesota Informatics Institute (UMII), which is a partner with MSI in the Research Computing group, will be part of a new Center for Neural Circuits in Addiction.
August 2020 Maintenance
On Wednesday, August 5, 2020, MSI staff will perform scheduled maintenance and upgrade to various MSI systems. Primary Storage, Mesabi, and Mangi will be unavailable throughout much of the day. A global system reservation will start at 5:00 a.m. CDT on August 5. Jobs that cannot be completed before 5:00 a.m. on August 5 will be held until after maintenance and then started once the system returns to production status. August maintenance will include:

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