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For its second year participating in the Times Higher Ed Impact Rankings (THE Impact Rankings), the University of Minnesota ranked eighth in the US for the overall ranking and in the 101-200 range worldwide.

The University of Minnesota continues to make significant progress in developing an SDG Data Hub that counties can use to track and accelerate the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.

School of Public Health Associate Professor Jamie Stang provides expert comment on policy, systems and environmental changes that can help create communities where making healthy choices is possible.

University of Minnesota students conducted crucial genome sequencing for the newly discovered soybean gall midge — a pest that is threatening the soybean crop, one of the most widely cultivated and consumed throughout the world.

UMD is one of 12 universities partaking in a new Purpose-Driven Plant-Based Incubator™ program.

The Plant Protein Innovation Center focuses on challenges and opportunities identified by the food industry while also addressing global concerns about sustainable food production.

In a paper recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers from the University’s GEMS Informatics Center, Department of Applied Economics, and the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute assembled area data and the associated genetic pedigrees for the 1,353 commercial wheat varieties that made up most of the U.S. crop from 1919 to 2019.

GPS Alliance is pleased to announce the award, as part of its systemwide initiative focused on the SDGs, of approximately $160,000 to eight research projects that align with the UNs’ 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the U’s strategic priorities and needs identified by communities.  

The College of Education and Human Development has launched a college-wide SDG Initiative.