NIH awards $3.2 million to U research center for population research
Posted On Tuesday, November 12, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MINNESOTA Tags: edge research ecosystem, IPUMS, Minnesota Population Center, National Institutes of Health, University of Minnesota
MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL—The National Institutes of Health has awarded $3,185,694 million to the University of Minnesota’s Minnesota Population Center for a multi-year project to expand the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series. The project will add demographic and geographic data on the entire U.S. population from 1790 to 1930, more ...
200+ University students, staff and faculty nix tobacco in November
Posted On Sunday, November 3, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MINNESOTA Tags: David Golden, Ferdinand Schlapper, Nicotine Replacement Therapy, University of Minnesota, University’s Boynton Health Service
MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL —Starting today, more than 200 University of Minnesota Twin Cities students, staff and faculty who consider themselves regular tobacco users have pledged to quit for the entire month of November. Those who succeed are vying for one of three grand prizes—$2,000, $1,000 or $500 in Amazon ...
Community children (and their parents!) invited to the 15th annual “Halloween Knight”
Posted On Sunday, October 27, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MINNESOTA Tags: Carleton College athletic department, Carleton Student Athletic Advisory Committee, Halloween KNIGHT, Happy Halloween, varsity student-athletes
The Carleton College athletic department, coaches, and varsity student-athletes are pleased to announce the 15th Annual "Halloween 'KNIGHT'" Carnival to be held Sunday, Oct. 27 from 3 to 5 p.m. This year’s event will once again be held at Carleton’s Recreation Center.
This free activity for pre-school through elementary-age children (and ...
U of M researchers launching effort to get a bird’s-eye view of changing ecosystems
Posted On Saturday, October 19, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MINNESOTA Tags: College of Biological Sciences, Jeannine Cavender-Bares, NASA, National Science Foundation, University of Minnesota
MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL —In order to study rapidly changing conditions on the ground, researchers are taking to the skies. A $2 million, five-year study funded by the National Science Foundation and NASA aims to take a big leap forward in our ability to monitor ecosystem biodiversity and health on ...
Robina public forum to examine criminal law’s growing role in immigration policy
Posted On Saturday, October 12, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MINNESOTA Tags: Criminal Justice, immigration policy, Post-Racial Society, Robina Institute of Criminal Law, University of Minnesota, Yolanda Vásquez
MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL —Although Latinos comprise the largest minority group in the United States, Professor Yolanda Vásquez argues that the American Dream remains elusive for many of them: they have higher levels of poverty, unemployment, and incarceration than their white counterparts. What’s more, she contends, their situation has been ...
Carlson School of Management Introduces Business Analytics Degree
Posted On Saturday, October 5, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MINNESOTA Tags: Business Analytics, Business Analytics Lab, Carlson School of Management, McKinsey Quarterly, Sri Zaheer
MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL —The Carlson School of Management is now recruiting the first class of students for a new Master of Science in Business Analytics program that begins in summer 2014. The new degree program combines the Carlson School’s unique strengths in business education and information systems analysis to ...
Researchers Publish Enormous Catalog of More than 300,000 Nearby Galaxies
Posted On Thursday, September 26, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MINNESOTA Tags: Galaxy Zoo 2, Kyle Willett, Royal Astronomical Society, Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, University of Minnesota’s
MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL — More than 83,000 volunteer citizen scientists. Over 16 million galaxy classifications. Information on more than 300,000 galaxies. This is what you get when you ask the public for help in learning more about our universe.
The project, named Galaxy Zoo 2, is the second phase of ...
Medical Tourism is One of the Growing Trends Across the World
Posted On Friday, September 20, 2013 By USA Education News. Under ARKANSAS, DELAWARE, FEATURED, FLORIDA, GEORGIA, HAWAII, INDIANA, LOUISIANA, MARYLAND, MASSACHUSETTS, MINNESOTA, MISSISSIPPI, MISSOURI, NEBRASKA, NEW JERSEY, NEW MEXICO, NEW YORK, NORTH CAROLINA, NORTH DAKOTA, PUERTO RICO, SOUTH CAROLINA, SOUTH DAKOTA, TENNESSEE, TEXAS, VERMONT, WASHINGTON, WASHINGTON DC, WEST VIRGINIA Tags: cardiology, health care facility, joint replacement, low cost, Medical tourism, medical tourists, medical treatments, orthopedic surgery
Medical tourism is one of the growing trends across the world. Due to high increase in the cost of health care facility, individual as well as companies are providing incentives to travel across the countries to get the surgeries they need. While travelling other countries for the medical tourists not ...
U of M Researchers Discover Early-Warning System to Prevent Fishery Collapse
Posted On Wednesday, September 18, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MINNESOTA Tags: Biological Sciences, ecology, Evolution and Behavior, save fisheries, University of Minnesota
MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL —Threats from overfishing can be detected early enough to save fisheries-- and livelihoods --with minimal adjustments in harvesting practices, a new study by researchers in the University of Minnesota’s College of Biological Sciences shows.
The work indicates that a healthy fishery can be maintained the way a ...
Rare Audubon Works Included in Fall Exhibit at Bell Museum of Natural History
Posted On Wednesday, September 11, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MINNESOTA Tags: Audubon’s Birds of America., Bell Museum of Natural History, curator Don Luce, John James, Rare Audubon
MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL —This fall, the Bell Museum will debut Audubon and the Art of Birds, an exhibition that explores the human fascination with birds, and showcases one of the museum’s most valuable treasures: a double-elephant folio edition of John James Audubon’s Birds of America. The rare collection of ...
Officially Withdraw From Any Fall Class You’ve Registered for But Will Not Attend
Posted On Wednesday, September 4, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MINNESOTA Tags: Access Murphy Online, Change in Registration form, undergraduate students, University policy states
University policy states that undergraduate students who do not attend the first day of class may be dropped from the class roster at the discretion of the instructor; however, students should not assume that the instructor will drop them from a course if they fail to attend the first day.
University ...
4-H, Political Conversations Highlight U Presence at State Fair
Posted On Tuesday, August 27, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MINNESOTA Tags: 4-H livestock competitions, AgStar Arena, Larry Jacobs, political conversations, University of Minnesota
MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL —The University of Minnesota has a busy schedule planned for the week ahead at the Great Minnesota Get-Together.
4-H Day kicks off the weekend Saturday, August 24. Fair guests are encouraged to visit the animal barns, the Warner Coliseum and the brand-new AgStar Arena for 4-H livestock ...
Millner Heritage Little Iza Wine Takes Top Honors at Cold-Climate Competition
Posted On Tuesday, August 20, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MINNESOTA Tags: cold-climate competition, La Crescent grapes, Little Iza wine, Millner Heritage Vineyard, University of Minnesota’s
MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL — Little Iza wine, made from La Crescent grapes, from Millner Heritage Vineyard and Winery in Kimball, Minnesota, won the coveted Minnesota Governor’s Cup trophy at the 2013 International Cold Climate Wine Competition (ICCWC), held today at the University of Minnesota’s Conference Center in Saint Paul, ...
Supply Chain Energy Efficiency Critical to Reducing Carbon Footprint
Posted On Monday, August 12, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MINNESOTA Tags: Energy Efficiency Critical, Environmental Defense Fund, Reducing Carbon Footprint, Supply Chain, University of Minnesota
MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL —Companies that want to reduce their carbon footprint need to pay attention to the energy they use. But at least as important – and in some cases even more so – is paying attention to the energy used by links in their supply chain.
The University of ...
U of M launches record number of startup companies in fiscal year 2013
Posted On Monday, August 5, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MINNESOTA Tags: breathalyzer, Eric Kaler, Harvard Business School’s, natural anti-inflammatory compound, plastic bead, University of Minnesota, Venture Center
MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL —A natural anti-inflammatory compound, a smartphone-based breathalyzer and a plastic bead that cuts off the blood supply to cancerous tumors are just three promising University of Minnesota technologies that were used to launch a record 14 startup companies in fiscal year 2013. Last year, 12 startup ...
University of Minnesota Research Reveals Luxury Products’ Role in Relationships
Posted On Sunday, July 28, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MINNESOTA Tags: Carlson School of Management, Griskevicius, University of Minnesota, Vladas Griskevicius, Yajin Wang
MINNEAPOLIS / —Purchasing designer handbags and shoes is a means for women to express their style, boost self-esteem, or even signal status. New University of Minnesota research suggests some women also seek these luxury items to prevent other women from stealing their man.
Through a series of five experiments featuring 649 ...
Minnesota Population Center Announces IPUMS Research Awards
Posted On Sunday, July 21, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MINNESOTA Tags: demographic processes, Integrated Public Use Microdata Series, IPUMS Research Awards, Minnesota Population Center, University of Minnesota
MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL —The Minnesota Population Center (MPC), a leading developer and disseminator of demographic data based at the University of Minnesota, is excited to announce the winners of its annual IPUMS Research Awards. The awards honor the best of 2012’s published research and self-nominated graduate student papers that ...
Brian Buhr Named Interim Dean of University of Minnesota’s CFANS
Posted On Saturday, July 13, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MINNESOTA Tags: Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences, Brian Buhr, College of Food, interim dean, University of Minnesota’s
MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL —Brian Buhr, head of the University of Minnesota’s Department of Applied Economics for the past five years, has been named interim dean of the university’s College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences and interim director of the Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station.
He will become interim dean ...
