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Medicine
Using Stem Cells to Combat Hearing Loss

MSI PI Walter Low (professor, Neurosurgery) is featured in an article in the Fall 2019 issue of the

Ecology and Environment
Studying Fungi to Fight Emerald Ash Borer

MSI PIs Robert Blanchette (professor, Plant Pathology) and Kathryn Bushley (assistant professor

Biology
Tracking Monarch Butterflies

A project by researchers in the College of Biological Sciences (CBS) is tracking the migration of monarch butterflies and trying to determinate how road salt impa

Biology
A New Way to Fight Bacteria

A large and growing problem in medicine is that of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

Engineering
Smart Fabrics

MSI PI Julianne Abel (assistant professor, Mechanical Engineering) has combined her interests in materials and knitting in a unique w

Interview With MSI PI Andrew Odlyzko

MSI PI Andrew Odlyzko (professor, Mathematics) was interviewed by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for its “People of A

Medicine
Effects of Declining Estrogen on Postmenopausal Women’s Muscles

University of Minnesota researchers, partnering with colleagues at institutions around the US and in Finland, have shown that declining estrogen levels in post-menopausal women inhibits their abili

Ecology and Environment
MSI PI Vipin Kumar Uses Big Data to Track Climate Change

MSI PI Vipin Kumar (Regents Professor, Computer Science and Engineering) is encouraging his colleagues to use data mining, machine

Biology
Study by MSI PIs Reveals Individual Reaction to Food

A new study co-authored by MSI PIs Dan Knights (associate professor, Computer Science and Engineering;

Engineering
Studying Stresses on the I-35W Bridge

Twelve years after the collapse of the old I-35W bridge in Minneapolis, the new bridge is under constant monitoring through sensors that have been on the structure since it was completed in 2008.

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