The Broader Impacts & Engagement Expo is an opportunity for University of Minnesota research community to learn more about current modes of public engagement and broader impacts on funded proposals through discussions, presentations and demonstrations. The Expo is a collaborative effort among the Institute on the Environment, STEM Education Center, LT Media Lab, Bell Museum, [...]

Deep in a basement under a Twin Cities campus library, Elmo, Itasca, and Blade are at work. They’re running high-level quantum calculations in the war against anthrax and other biological and chemical weapons, commanded by Elizabeth Amin. Amin is an assistant professor of medicinal chemistry, and her three assistants are supercomputers. Blade, Itasca, and Elmo [...]

Above the snowy fields, a clear Teflon tube threads up a radio tower to capture a steady stream of cold air. Inside the little cement building below, a machine the size of a dishwasher measures the contents of the incoming air. The landscape looks bucolic. But to Dylan Millet and his team studying atmospheric chemistry, [...]

The goal of the University of Minnesota Interdisciplinary Informatics (UMII) seed grant program is to support interdisciplinary informatics research. The directed research efforts will leverage state-of-the-art informatics practices while cutting across other domains such as the life sciences, physical sciences and engineering, social sciences, health sciences, computing sciences, or other disciplines. UMII  is especially interested [...]