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Great Lakes Aquaculture Products Featured on Capitol Hill

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The Sea Grant Great Lakes Aquaculture Collaborative, led by Minnesota Sea Grant, hosted a Great Lakes aquaculture seafood booth at the annual NOAA Sustainable Seafood Celebration in Washington D.C. in June 2023.

U of M Named a Best Employer for Women

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Forbes recently named the University of Minnesota a Best Employer for Women 2023

SPH researchers exploring health impacts of homeless camp closures

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The School of Public project is the first to bring researchers, government agencies, and community organizations together to examine the issue.

Birds, bugs and climate change

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Early on a cool, smoky June morning researchers Alexis Grinde and Annie Bracey load up with gear and strike out across a grassland south of Moorhead, Minn.

University of Minnesota study looks to make traffic signals smarter, shorten time stopped at intersections

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It can be frustrating when the light turns green and every car in front of you makes it through before it turns red -- except for you.

2023 Systemwide Sustainability Student Impact Awards Recipients

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The Student Impact Awards honor and recognize individuals and groups for their contributions to sustainability in their communities over the past year. 

MN Daily: UMN researchers develop new computer component

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A College of Science and Engineering professor and graduate students developed a new variant of a superconducting diode, a key component in most computers.

MPR News: Expanding drought conditions stressing crops in parts of Minnesota

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Drought has been a recurring for for Minnesota farmers over the past few years. But this growing season, the problem has started abnormally early in parts of the state. UMN experts weigh in on what has changed and what to expect. 

Scientists document over 500 bee species in Minnesota

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Minnesota is home to a great variety of biodiversity due to its position at a confluence of four of the planet’s major biomes — aspen parklands, prairie grasslands, deciduous forest and coniferous forest. Now, University of Minnesota researchers have confirmed the state is also home to 508 bee species, including numerous rare and specialist species that were recorded in the state for the first time. 

MN Daily: UMN community celebrates Juneteenth

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The University of Minnesota hosted a Juneteenth celebration in North Minneapolis Saturday to bring the community together at a block party to commemorate the anniversary of enslaved Black Americans emancipation in 1865.