Back to Campus: Technical Notes website now available
A new Technology Notice web page provides useful resources to help you get the technology back on campus. It’s a great resource for troubleshooting some common technical problems on your own. Technology Help is also available to help with technology-related issues. Due to an expected increase in demand, there may be longer response and service delivery times during this transition.
Call for nominations: McKnight and Distinguished Teaching Awards
Nomination materials are now available for four system-wide faculty awards: The McKnight Land Grant Professorship (due November 9); the Distinguished McKnight University Professorship (due January 25); the Horace T. Morse-University of Minnesota Alumni Association Award for Outstanding Contribution to Undergraduate Education (due January 5); and the Award for Outstanding Contributions to Higher Education and Vocational Education (due January 5).
Call for applications: OACA Faculty Research Development Grant Program
The Office of Academic Clinical Affairs (OACA) solicits applications for faculty research grants that support new or expanding interdisciplinary research that addresses key clinical issues, is innovative, and has high return potential. Applications can span a continuum from laboratory research to community-based / community-based research. The competitive LOI deadline is August 27th.
New NRRI report outlines Minnesota’s potential for energy storage
Moving away from fossil fuels towards renewable energies poses challenges. The Natural Resources Research Institute (NRRI) has explored a number of high capacity energy storage opportunities that are looming on the horizon.
Study identifies racial / ethnic and linguistic inequalities in the way patients receive COVID-19 virus tests
A University of Minnesota study is one of the first to examine how various sociodemographic groups have used telemedicine, outpatient, emergency room and inpatient care to test for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
The role of host genetics in the gut microbiome is almost universal, but it is environmentally dependent
Taken together, the bacteria, viruses, fungi and other microbes that live in our intestines make up the gut microbiome, which plays a key role in human and animal health. In new research from the University of Minnesota, the University of Notre Dame, and Duke University, scientists found that host genetics almost always play a role in the composition of the intestinal microbiome of wild baboons.
Study highlights socio-economic and racial differences in funding medical education
National data analyzed by researchers at the University of Minnesota Medical School show that nearly 40 percent of all funds used to fund medical school are likely to come from family or personal sources and scholarships. However, the distribution of these sources varies widely depending on race and socio-economic status.
The Minnesota Futures Award supports “Creative Camp” research into the mental health of adolescent adolescents
Studies have shown that creative activities like writing, drawing, or knitting can help reduce depression, stress, and anxiety, but scientists aren’t yet sure how creative thinking can help people move out of negative thinking patterns and into more flexible states of mind. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Director Kathryn Cullen, along with a team of faculty and staff across the University of Minnesota system, is exploring how creative therapies can help adolescents with depression.
Research Brief: New tool helps farmers make decisions about the use of crops
A new tool developed by a research team from the College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences enables farmers to keep a budgetary balance sheet of all nitrogen reduction plans and see economic and environmental costs, returns and margins. Other recent research briefs include “New Study Provides Clues to Decade-Old Mysteries About Cell Movement”; “Health care providers are missing out on opportunities to talk to young people about sexual health”; “Household Cats Are More Prone To Coronavirus Infection Than Dogs In Early Minnesota Pandemic”; and “The renaturation of wetlands offers the best protection against agricultural runoff.”
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