The Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment & the Life Sciences is issuing a call for proposals, with a deadline of Feb. 13, 2012.

On Oct. 19, the College of Veterinary Medicine’s annual Points of Pride Research Day celebrated researchers, their projects and the partners who make much of the research possible.

Research on creating more environment-friendly, cost-efficient plastics from natural and renewable materials got a boost today as the University of Minnesota announced a $1.5 million grant over three years from the National Science Foundation.

Chris Hogan, center, directs the Nanoparticle Physics Laboratory with a team of researchers including graduate student Abhimanyu Ghosh, right. The differential mobility analyzer in the foreground measures aerosol particle sizes. “There’s an unseen world of very small particles,” says Chris Hogan. “It includes nature-made particles—which have been around for a long time—and other things that [...]