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Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory
Last Updated: 04/01/2009
The perceptual guidance of action, and the use of movement to obtain perceptual information are two central aspects of behavior. APAL is a leader in quantitative research in on relations between perception and action. Our focus is on the integration of perception and action in the context of affordances. Affordances are relations between properties of the environment and properties of the organism that have consequences for behavior. Affordances are directly relevant to the success of our interactions with the environment. We study movements that are used to gain information about affordances. Our research straddles the boundary between basic and applied science. Our research on “basic” issues has implications for the design and use of human-machine systems, and our research on “applied” issues has implications for general theories of affordance perception-action. Our applied work relates primarily to the Human Factors of perception and action in virtual environments.
Website: http://education.umn.edu/KIN/research/apal/
E-mail Address: apal@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 624 1025
Address: Cooke Hall 5A 5B 1900 University Avenue SE ,,,
Director Thomas Stoffregen
American Studies
Interdisciplinary graduate program
Last Updated: 09/11/2008
American Studies is the interdisciplinary study of American culture(s). Students at the University of Minnesota are trained to study U.S. cultures and their interactions. Students and faculty work in a variety of academic specialties, including literature, history, sociology, anthropology, geography, cultural studies, art history, urban studies, political science, women's studies, and the history of science. In addition, the Department of American Studies maintains a strong commitment to multicultural scholarship. We maintain important ties to African American Studies, Chicano Studies, American Indian Studies, and the Asian American Studies Program.
Director Riv-Ellen Prell
Antibiotic Pharmacodynamic Research Institute
Last Updated: 06/01/2009
Website: http://www.courses.ahc.umn.edu/pharmacy/6124/Fellowship_program/fellowship_description.htm
Director John Rotschafer
Aurora Center for Advocacy and Education
Last Updated: 07/07/2009
The Aurora Center for Advocacy and Education is the on-campus resource for direct services and education related to issues of interpersonal violence. We provide crisis intervention and advocacy services to survivors of sexual assault, relationship violence, and stalking, and offer support services to people who are concerned about someone who has been victimized. Aurora Center staff and volunteers are also available to facilitate education and training to students, faculty, and staff on the issues of violence prevention, awareness and response.
Website: http://www.umn.edu/aurora
E-mail Address: aurora@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 626 2929
More Information (Advocacy Brochure.pdf)
Director Roberta Gibbons
Basic Research Center on Molecular and Cell Biology of Drug Addiction
Last Updated: 07/09/2009
The center`s goals are: 1) to foster interdisciplinary approaches and collaborations among investigators to address the problems of drug addiction, 2) to serve as an activity center to coordinate and to promote all academic and scholarly activities on drug addiction at University of Minnesota, 3) to serve also as a national resource for drug addiction research by providing reagents, probes or genetic altered mice developed by investigators within the Center, and 4) to serve as the training center for young scientists interested in the problems drug addiction research.
Website: http://mcbda.ahc.umn.edu/index.html
Address: 6-120 Jackson Hall 321 Church Street S.E. ,Minneapolis,MN,55455
Director Horace Loh
Beckman Center for Transposon Research
Last Updated: 07/07/2009
Website: http://www.cge.umn.edu/index.html
Director Dan Voytas
Bell Museum of Natural History
Last Updated: 04/06/2009
The Bell Museum (Minnesota’s state museum of natural history) is an interdisciplinary research, teaching, and outreach center. The faculty conduct cutting edge research on patterns and processes in evolutionary biology and maintain outstanding scientific collections (Amphibians and Reptiles, Birds, Fishes, Fungi, Insects, Lichenized Fungi, Mammals, Mollusks, and Vascular Plants) for use in research and teaching. Bell Museum scientists are actively engaged in both undergraduate and graduate education. The museum’s public facility serves the public generally and K-12 education specifically through a combination of permanent exhibits (notably world-class habitat dioramas), traveling exhibits, and public programs (e.g., Café Scientifique, Field Trips). In addition, educational outreach programs bring environmental science education to schools, nature centers, and state parks around the state.
Website: http://www.bellmuseum.org
E-mail Address: info@bellmuseum.org
Phone Number: (612) 624 7083
More Information (About the Bell Museum.doc)
Director Susan Weller
Biodale - Biotech Research Services
Last Updated: 12/04/2008
Biodale is consortium of research services facilities, which offer state-of-the-art equipment and technical expertise in the areas of fermentation, protein expression, proteomics, protein mass spectrometry, DNA sequencing, electron- and light microscopy, as well as high-throughput screening. Most of the laboratories are located in Snyder Hall and Gortner Lab on the St. Paul campus.
Website: http://www.cbs.umn.edu/biodale/
Address: BIODALE 123 Snyder Hall 1475 Gortner Avenue ,St. Paul,MN,55108
Director Marc von Keitz
Bioinformatics
Interdisciplinary graduate program
Last Updated: 12/10/2008
The Graduate Program in Bioinformatics offers a graduate minor, including core coursework in computer and biological sciences and opportunities to interact with others interested in bioinformatics. The curriculum encourages interdisciplinary interaction, communication, and synthesis.
Website: http://www.binf.umn.edu
E-mail Address: bioinfo@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 625 8440
More Information (brochure10.pdf)
Director Lynda B. Ellis
Bioinformatics Summer Institute
Last Updated: 12/10/2008
The mission of the Bioinformatics Summer Institute is to provide the highest possible quality undergraduate and graduate level education and research experiences in bioinformatics and synthetic biology, equipping the new generation of this burgeoning professional community with the tools for a successful career in bioinformatics and synthetic biology. Sixteen undergraduate and graduate students will participate in the Institute for ten summer weeks.
Website: http://www.bsi.umn.edu
E-mail Address: umbsi@dtc.umn.edu
Director Yiannis Kaznessis
Biomedical Genomics Center
Last Updated: 07/07/2009
The BioMedical Genomics Center at the University of Minnesota has been advancing genomics and proteomics research as it applies to human and animal health. The BMGC continues to maintain, upgrade, and acquire state-of-the-art instrumentation for genomics and proteomics-focused research at the University and the extended scientific community.
Website: http://www.bmgc.umn.edu/
Phone Number: (612) 625 7736
Director Kenneth Beckman
Biotechnology Institute
Last Updated: 08/10/2009
The BioTechnology Institute (BTI) provides advanced research, training, and university-industry interaction in biological process technology, a major area of biotechnology research. The Institute is the central University of Minnesota vehicle for coordinated research in the biological, chemical, and engineering aspects of biotechnology. BTI faculty perform basic research in biocatalysis, microbial physiology and the production of biofuels and other products made from renewable resources. Faculty educate graduate students and postdoctorals, and consult and collaborate with industrial scientists. In addition to the faculty laboratories, the Institute has established the Biotechnology Resource Center (BRC), a process scale pilot plant unique in the state, which is accessible to industrial and academic scientists for collaborative and contract research. The BioTechnology Institute also coordinates an active industrial outreach program which sponsors short courses and mini-symposia.
Website: http://www.bti.umn.edu
E-mail Address: bti@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 624 6774
Address: 240 Gortner Laboratory 1479 Gortner Avenue ,St. Paul,MN,55108
Director Michael Sadowsky
Brain Barriers Research Center
Last Updated: 06/01/2009
Website: http://www.d.umn.edu/~mdbc/BBRC/
Director William Elmquist
Caenorhabditis Genetics Center
Last Updated: 06/24/2008
The overall objective of the Caenorhabditis Genetics Center (CGC) is to promote significant research on an animal model, the small nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. The CGC is the international center for the acquisition, maintenance, and distribution of genetically and phenotypically characterized nematode stocks, with emphasis on the species Caenorhabditis elegans.
Website: http://biosci.umn.edu/CGC/CGChomepage.htm
E-mail Address: cgc@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 624 4708
Director Ann Rougvie
Cancer Center
Last Updated: 07/07/2009
The Cancer Center enriches and supports the work of our members by providing an opportunity for professionals from a variety of academic backgrounds to interact and collaborate in multidisciplinary research programs, including: Breast cancer, Cancer progression and metastasis, Carcinogenesis and chemoprevention, Genetic mechanisms of cancer, Immunology, Prevention and etiology, translational research, and Transplant biology and therapy.
Website: http://www.cancer.umn.edu/
Address: MMC 806 420 Delaware Street SE ,Minneapolis,MN,55455
Director Douglas Yee, M.D.
Cardiac Arrhythmia and Syncope Center
Last Updated: 12/10/2008
The Cardiac Arrhythmia Center (CAC) at the University of Minnesota was established with a mission to support basic and clinical research on causes and treatment of cardiac arrhythmias, fainting disorders (syncope),and sudden cardiac death. Whether specific projects are primarily medically or engineering-directed, the CAC focus is always aimed toward developing new techniques and instrumentation for enhancing health care, and quality-of-life. A CAC places priority on fostering interdisciplinary and inter-institutional research activities. In this regard, CAC faculty have broad interaction with colleagues in emergency medicine, biomedical engineering, the University of Minnesota’s medical instrumentation laboratory and Department of Electrical Engineering, as well as faculty from the pharmaceutical and medical device industries. Further, the CAC offers a broad array of drug treatments, device therapies (pacemakers and implantable defibrillators, cardiac resynchronization), ablation techniques (e.g., for atrial fibrillation, paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia, and ventricular tachycardia), and surgical anti-arrhythmia procedures (e.g., robotic epicardial ablation and pacing lead placement ).
E-mail Address: bendi001@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 625 4401
Address: Medicine 420 Delaware ,Minneapolis,MN,55455
Director David Benditt
Career and Lifework Center
Last Updated: 12/11/2008
Through individual consultations, assessments and workshops, the Career and Lifework Center helps people discover a path to more meaningful and satisfying lifework. This resource is available for anybody interested in personal or professional development; one does not need to be an alumni of the University of Minnesota to use this fee-based services.
Website: http://www.lifework.umn.edu/
E-mail Address: cceinfo@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 624 4000
Address: 150 Westbrook Hall 77 Pleasant St S E ,Minneapolis,MN,55455
Director Janet Pelto
Carlson Ventures Enterprise
Last Updated: 12/10/2008
The Ventures Enterprise is a unique experiential learning program for full-time MBA students. In the Ventures Enterprise, students analyze and develop high-potential business opportunities ranging from raw entrepreneurial ideas to new initiatives of Fortune 500 companies. The classroom component of the Ventures Enterprise focuses on innovation and collaboration, opportunity analysis and venture finance.
Website: http://www.csom.umn.edu/ventures
E-mail Address: rutl0006@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 626 7488
Address: Room 3-306 321 19th Avenue S . ,Minneapolis,MN,55455
Director Toby Nord
Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve
Last Updated: 06/01/2009
Research topics surround fundamental scientific interest and relevance to human-driven global environmental change, especially the impacts of elevated nitrogen deposition, of increased concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide, and of the loss of biodiversity on ecosystem functioning. This area also houses the NSF Area Microbial Observatory.
Website: http://www.lter.umn.edu/
Phone Number: (763) 434 5131
Director David Tilman
Center for Adolescent Nursing
Last Updated: 12/02/2008
Our Center supports MS, MPH, PhD, DNP, and post-doctoral curricula in adolescent health with stipends and tuition support for students and fellows, and post-doctoral fellowships in adolescent health - including distance learning options - that integrate knowledge and skills in leadership, research and public health practice to improve our capacity for addressing the health needs of young people. Through intensive learning institutes and workshops, we provide continuing education options in adolescent health and leadership for those in practice across all health disciplines. Serving as a national hub for health professionals specializing in adolescent health, we disseminate educational resources, offer continuing education, and provide technical assistance/consultation to our maternal and child health (MCH) partners.
Director Linda Bearinger
Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition
Last Updated: 12/11/2008
The mission of CARLA is to study multilingualism and multiculturalism, to develop knowledge of second language acquisition, and to advance the quality of second language teaching, learning, and assessment by: conducting research and action projects, sharing research-based and other forms of knowledge across disciplines and education systems, and extending, exchanging, and applying this knowledge in the wider society.
Website: http://www.carla.umn.edu
E-mail Address: carla@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 626 8600
Director Elaine Tarone
Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare
Last Updated: 12/11/2008
In collaboration with the Minnesota Department Human Services and other public child welfare agencies, CASCW examines new and existing findings to identify effective child welfare practices, inform public management, supervise and train child welfare workers, and incorporated new information into the School of Social Work`s curriculum.
Website: http://cehd.umn.edu/ssw/cascw
E-mail Address: cascw@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 624 4231
Director Traci LaLiberte
Center for Allied Health Programs
Last Updated: 03/31/2009
The CAHP is an emerging statewide resource to address healthcare workforce shortages through developing signature academic partnerships linking UMN allied health programs with other programs in the state. The goal is to integrate curricula, develop state-of-the-art learning platforms, and provide geographically distributed access to programs through performance sites that will provide student advisement, enhance learning, house "hands on" laboratories for skill acquisition, and serve as logistical support sites for digital technology that enhances learning.
Website: http://www.cahp.umn.edu
E-mail Address: info@cahp.umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 625 8936
Director Cindee Quake-Rapp
Center for Animal Health and Food Safety
Last Updated: 12/10/2008
The Center for Animal Health and Food Safety proactively contributes to the safety and security of the global food system and significantly strengthens Minnesota's ability to anticipate and respond to emerging issues and imminent threats from animal and foodborne diseases.
Website: http://www.cahfs.umn.edu/
E-mail Address: cahfs@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 625 8709
Address: 136 Andrew Boss Laboratory 1354 Eckles Avenue ,St. Paul,MN,55108
Director Jeff Bender
Center for Applied Research and Educational Improvement
Last Updated: 07/07/2009
CAREI facilitates the connections between organizations and groups serving the needs of children and families: schools, community agencies and groups, state and federal agencies and the College of Education and Human Development.
Website: http://education.umn.edu/CAREI/default.html
Director Kyla Wahlstrom
Center for Arts and Medicine
Last Updated: 02/12/2009
Director Marshall Mary Faith
Center for Bioethics
Last Updated: 02/04/2009
The mission of the Center is to advance and disseminate knowledge concerning ethical issues in health care and the life sciences. The Center carries out this mission by conducting original interdisciplinary research, offering educational programs and courses, fostering public discussion and debate through community outreach activities, and assisting in the formulation of public policy.
Website: http://www.bioethics.umn.edu/
E-mail Address: bioethx@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 624 9440
Address: Suite N504 Boynton 410 Church Street SE ,Minneapolis,MN,55455
Director Jeffrey Kahn
Center for Biorefining
Last Updated: 12/10/2008
The Center for Biorefining is affiliated with the University of Minnesota Initiative for Renewable Energy and the Environment to coordinate the University efforts and resources to conduct exploratory fundamental and applied research; provide education on bioenergy, biochemicals and biomaterials; stimulate collaboration among the University researchers, other public sector investigators, and private investigators involved in biobased production technology development; promote technology transfer to industries; and foster economic development in rural areas.
Website: http://biorefining.cfans.umn.edu/
Phone Number: (612) 625 1710
Address: 1390 Eckles Ave. ,St. Paul,MN,55108
More Information (Brochure.ppt)
Director Roger Ruan
Center for Changing Landscapes
Last Updated: 03/31/2009
Website: http://ccl.design.umn.edu/
Director Mary Vogel
Center for Children with Special Health Care Needs
Last Updated: 02/28/2009
The Center for Children with Special Health Care Needs prepares pediatric nursing leaders by supporting DNP and PHD leadership students and providing professional development opportunities and resources for pediatric and maternal and child health (MCH) professionals who work with children and youth with special health care needs and their families. Research and scholarship focuses on preventing and managing childhood chronic conditions and improving systems of care for children and their families. The Center is funded by a $1 million 5-year grant from the Maternal Child Health Bureau.
Website: http:// CSHCN@umn.edu
E-mail Address: www.nursing.umn.edu/CCSHCN
Phone Number: (612) 626 7085
More Information (MN-fw08-CSHCN-d1.pdf)
Director Ann Garwick
Center for Clinical Movement Science
Last Updated: 12/11/2008
The Clinical Movement Science Center is an interdisciplinary organization at the University of Minnesota focusing on problems affecting the human motor system. Its faculty offer perspectives from the fields of engineering, kinesiology, the neurological, rehabilitation and clinical sciences. Their research provides a better understanding of the underlying disease processes that lead to movement impairments. Its products are new knowledge, procedures, therapies and devices that will aid and enhance the care and treatment of age-related changes and diseases affecting human movement.
Website: http://ccms.umn.edu
Director John Anderson
Center for Cognitive Sciences
Last Updated: 04/07/2009
The Center for Cognitive Sciences receives strong support from the University of Minnesota and its constituent colleges. Currently, the Center draws faculty and students from sixteen departments and programs across eight colleges. Their specialty fields include child development, cognitive neuroscience, communication integration, computer science and engineering, curriculum and instruction, electrical and computer engineering, information and decision sciences, kinesiology and human factors, linguistics, magnetic resonance research, marketing and logistics management, neuroscience, philosophy, physiology, psychiatry, psychology, and the psychological foundations of education. A new graduate (PhD) program in Cognitive Science is administered through the Center (www.cogsciphd.umn.edu) and a new Journal (Cognitive Critique) has been started (www.cogcrit.umn.edu).
Website: http://www.cogsci.umn.edu
E-mail Address: cogsci@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 626 3570
Address: 205 Elliott Hall 75 East River Road ,Minneapolis,MN,55455
Director Apostolos Georgopoulos
Center for Dairy Health, Management, and Food Quality
Last Updated: 12/10/2008
The mission of the Center for Dairy Health, Management, and Food Quality of the College of Veterinary Medicine is to enhance dairy animal health and welfare and the efficient, profitable, and environmentally sound production of quality food for the consumer.
Website: http://www.cvm.umn.edu/dairy/home.html
Director Jan Swanson
Center for Democracy and Citizenship
Last Updated: 12/11/2008
The center`s philosophy was forged in the crucible of the American civic rights movement which etched the disarmingly simple fundamentals of democracy and public work: Each of us is democracy, Democracy comes to life when we do its work, Democracy wanes when we set its burdens aside, and When people do the work of democracy, the future can be better than the past.
Website: http://www.publicwork.org/
Director Harry Boyte
Center for Design in Health
Last Updated: 03/31/2009
Website: http://cdh.design.umn.edu/
Director Kathleen Harder
Center for Diesel Research
Last Updated: 12/10/2008
The Center specializes in the physical and chemical characterization of exhaust emissions, evaluation of emission controls, evaluation and demonstration of alternative fuels, certification of on- and off-highway engines, and the evaluation of control technology in the field. The Center has unique capabilities to characterize exhaust aerosols.
Website: http://www.me.umn.edu/centers/cdr/
E-mail Address: dzarling@me.umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 624 3504
Address: 1100 Mechanical Engineering Building 111 Church St. S. E. ,Minneapolis,MN,55455
Director Darrick Zarling
Center for Drug Design
Last Updated: 12/10/2008
The Center for Drug Design (CDD) is a distinctive, cutting edge research facility in the Academic Health Center of the University of Minnesota. We are dedicated to: Providing a research environment for leading scientists, Sharing unique strategies within the scientific community, Developing novel drug therapies, Vigorously pursuing an academic research agenda, Transferring scientific knowledge, Designing and developing new medicines to benefit people worldwide, Supporting the interaction of many disciplines and areas of study, and Creating a focal point for research.
Website: http://www.ahc.umn.edu/ahc_content/colleges/cdd/index.cfm
E-mail Address: cdd@umn.edu
Address: 5-130 WDH 308 Harvard St SE ,Minneapolis,MN,55455
More Information (Final Brochure 5_05.pdf)
Director Robert Vince
Center for Early Education and Development
Last Updated: 12/11/2008
Reflecting a strong national interest in early childhood education, the College of Education and Human Development of the University of Minnesota established an interdepartmental Center for Early Education and Development (CEED) which began operation in the Fall of 1973. CEED's mission is to improve developmental outcomes for children through applied research, training, and outreach.
Website: http://cehd.umn.edu/CEED/
E-mail Address: ceed@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 625 3058
Director Amy Susman-Stillman
Center for Early Modern History
Last Updated: 12/11/2007
The CEMH is a premier research, teaching, and resource center for the comparative study of the early modern world, roughly 1370 to 1750. The center's aim: to expand understanding of the crucial period between the Middle Ages and the modern era by drawing on many scholarly approaches and by relating developments across the globe to one another.
Website: http://www.cemh.umn.edu
E-mail Address: cemh@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 625 6303
Director William Phillips, Jr.
Center for Economic Development
Last Updated: 06/01/2009
Address: Technology Village 11 East Superior Street Suite 210 ,Duluth,MN,55802
Director Elaine Hansen
Center for Environment and Natural Resource Policy
Last Updated: 05/27/2008
The Center was established in 1984 to conduct interdisciplinary studies on the management and use of natural resources and our environment. Its mission is to provide timely, scientific, and objective data and analysis on policies and programs that impact natural resources and environmental management in Minnesota and the surrounding region. The Center has the capability to conduct policy, economic, administrative, planning and management assessments, and uses a number of venues such as reports conferences, symposia, and seminars to fulfill its mission. The Center draws on faculty members from a variety of units across the University of Minnesota to match skills and expertise with project needs.
Website: http://www.cfans.umn.edu/Center_for_Environment_and_Natural_Resource_Policy.html
Director Michael Kilgore
Center for Excellence in Children’s Mental Health
Last Updated: 12/12/2008
The mission of the Center for Excellence in Children’s Mental Health (CECMH) is to promote children's mental health through collaborative action in the state of Minnesota that effectively links research, practice, and policy. Our three primary operational strategies are to: Sponsor educational activities that address critical issues affecting the mental health and well-being of children and youth. Create university-community research partnerships that provide new knowledge about the treatment and prevention of mental illness. Gather and disseminate findings from research and practice to families, practitioners, policy makers, researchers and others interested in children’s well-being.
Website: http://www.cmh.umn.edu/mission.html
E-mail Address: www.cmh.umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 625 7865
Director Joel Hetler
Center for Excellence in Critical Care
Last Updated: 06/01/2009
The center works with: Critically Ill Patients and Their Families; Drug, Biotech and Medical Device Companies; and Critical Care Practitioners and Postbaccalaureate Trainees.
Website: http://www.pharmacy.umn.edu/centers/cecc/
Director Henry Mann
Center for Excellence in Rural Safety (CERS)
Last Updated: 12/12/2008
The Center for Excellence in Rural Safety (CERS) provides citizen-centered research, training, and outreach to enhance rural safety and to meet the online and seminar training needs of rural transportation practitioners and policymakers. The Center conducts several focused research activities to explore policy, behavior, and technology approaches, such as projects addressing safety-conscious planning, ITS and rural emergency response, integrated policy approaches, and related human factors, societal trends, and stakeholder needs analysis.
Website: http://www.ruralsafety.umn.edu/
E-mail Address: lnoble@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 626 0564
More Information (CERSmidtermreport.pdf)
Director Lee Munnich
Center for Farm Financial Management
Last Updated: 12/10/2008
CFFM`s primary purpose is to develop educational tools for farmers, agricultural lenders and educators to apply the principles and concepts of farm planning, financing and analysis in a practical manner. CFFM also hosts the National Ag Risk Library.
Website: http://www.cffm.umn.edu
E-mail Address: cffm@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 625 1964
Director Robert Craven
Center for Farm Financial Management
Last Updated: 03/31/2009
Website: http://www.cffm.umn.edu/index.aspx
Director Robert Craven
Center for Genome Engineering
Last Updated: 12/22/2008
Advances in DNA sequencing technology have made it possible to identify the many genes within an organism’s genome. Two current challenges are to understand how these genes work together to dictate how an organism grows and develops and how to make changes in genomes for medical and commercial purposes. Meeting these challenges requires sophisticated tools to manipulate genes. The mission of the Center for Genome Engineering is to develop and disseminate the tools that enable efficient, responsible genome engineering.
Website: http://www.cge.umn.edu
Address: 6-160 Jackson Hall 321 Church St. SE ,Minneapolis,MN,55455
Director Daniel Voytas
Center for Gerontological Nursing
Last Updated: 12/10/2008
Its goals are to: Facilitate research on health promotion, symptom management, health restoration, and care delivery for aging adults and elders, Promote research training and career development in gerontological nursing, Foster scholarly inquiry and collaboration among faculty, students, and community partners, and Disseminate research findings to local, state, national, and international audiences.
Website: http://www.ahc.umn.edu/ahc_content/Colleges/nursing/index2.cfm?nav=2700&parent=1334&type=D&a
E-mail Address: geronursing@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 626 8872
Director Jean Wyman
Center for Hardwood Ecology
Last Updated: 12/10/2008
The center conducts studies of how forest fires, windstorms, invasive species, and climate change impact the structure, biodiversity, and function of forests. Studies span scales from stands to landscapes, taxonomic groups from earthworms to wildflowers and trees, and bridge the gaps between science, conservation, and management of forests.
Website: http://www.cnr.umn.edu/FR/CFHE/index.html
E-mail Address: freli001@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 624 3671
Director Lee Frelich
Center for Health Interprofessional Programs
Last Updated: 12/10/2008
The CHIP Student Center serves AHC students in the disciplines of dentistry, dental hygiene, medical technology, medicine, mortuary science, nursing, occupational therapy, pharmacy, physical therapy, public health, and veterinary medicine as well as healthcare administration.
Website: http://www.chip.umn.edu/
Director Gina Kundan
Center for Human Resources and Industrial Relations
Last Updated: 03/31/2009
Founded in 1945, the Industrial Relations Center is an international leader in human resources and industrial relations education, research, and outreach. As a part of the Carlson School of Management, the center is dedicated to the study and teaching of human resources, industrial relations, and all facets of the employement relationship. Along with its top-ranked graduate programs in human resources and industrial relations, the Industrial Relations Center maintains a specialized reference library, research institute, alumni association, advisory board, and Labor Education Service which provides non-credit classes and training for the labor community. The Industrial Relations Center also hosts the IRC reference room and the annual HR Tomorrow Institute in April.
Website: http://www.carlsonschool.umn.edu/Page5888.aspx
Phone Number: (612) 624 5000
Director Connie Wanberg
Center for Immunology
Last Updated: 12/17/2008
The investigation of the immune response is essential to many disciplines within the biological and biomedical sciences, and faculty with research programs in immunology are found in numerous University departments. The Center for Immunology was established as a University-wide multidisciplinary center to coordinate and promote efforts in immunology research, education and clinical applications at the University of Minnesota.
Website: http://www.immunology.umn.edu/
Phone Number: (612) 626 2403
Address: Box 609 Mayo/420 Delaware Street SE ,Minneapolis,MN,55455
Director Matthew Mescher
Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP)
Last Updated: 12/12/2008
Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) stands at the forefront in addressing the most pressing infectious disease issues of our time. Our current focus is in four key areas: public health preparedness, emerging infectious disease response, agricultural and food biosecurity, and food safety.
Website: http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/
E-mail Address: cidrap@umn.edu
Address: C-315 MMC 263 420 Delaware Street SE ,Minneapolis,MN,55455
Director Michael Osterholm
Center for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Translational Research
Last Updated: 06/01/2009
Website: http://www.med.umn.edu/cidmtr/
Director Lisa Turnquist
Center for Integrative Leadership
Last Updated: 03/12/2008
Integrative leadership identifies the common ground between sectors and leverages their unique influence and resources to better move organizations, communities, and society forward in times of increased interconnection and rapid change. The center works to support multidisciplinary leadership research, formal classroom instruction, public education, and leadership development within the University and the community at large. It is the only one of its kind in the world dedicated to the study, teaching, and deployment of integrative leadership. The Center for Integrative Leadership is a University-wide initiative located at the University of Minnesota. Its oversight is shared by the Carlson School of Management and the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs.
Website: http://www.hhh.umn.edu/centers/cil/index.html
Director x x
Center for Interest Measurement Research
Last Updated: 12/11/2008
The Center for Interest Measurement Research (CIMR) functions as a research office dedicated to the accumulation of new knowledge in the field of vocational interest measurement and career development, to the development of materials that make practical use of this knowledge, and to the provision of graduate student and professional education.
Website: http://www.psych.umn.edu/research/
Director Jo-Ida Hansen
Center for Labor Policy
Last Updated: 12/10/2008
To identify and understand factors and policies that affect labor market institutions and the performance of organizations
Director Morris Kleiner
Center for Leadership Education in Maternal and Child Public Health
Last Updated: 12/10/2008
MCH faculty focus on a wide range of topics including: Children with Special Health Care Needs, Reproductive Health, Women`s Health, and Advocating for Children.
Website: http://www.epi.umn.edu/mch/
Phone Number: (612) 626 8644
Director Wendy Hellerstedt
Center for Leading Healthcare Change
Last Updated: 06/01/2009
Website: http://www.pharmacy.umn.edu/clhc/
Director Lowell Anderson
Center for Learning Innovation (CLI)
Last Updated: 12/10/2008
The University of Minnesota Rochester (UMR) Center for Learning Innovation (CLI) is the academic home for the new bachelor of science in the health sciences at UMR. CLI faculty are responsible for performing research and developing and implementing new learner-centered, competency-based curriculum with built-in assessment capability that will monitor and measure student progress towards learning outcomes. CLI promotes a learner-centered, technology-enhanced, competency-based, and community-integrated learning environment in which ongoing assessment will guide and monitor student learning and will be the basis for data-driven research on learning. The Center serves as a laboratory for learning and leads the development of the integrated curriculum for the bachelor of science in the health sciences at UMR.
Website: http://www.r.umn.edu/21_CLI.htm
Director Claudia Neuhauser
Center for Lung Science and Health
Last Updated: 12/17/2008
The Center for Lung Science and Health (CLSH) was established within the University of Minnesota Medical School to facilitate interdisciplinary research, education, and outreach activities in order to promote lung health and improve care of patients with lung disease. The Center is directed by David Ingbar, M.D., the Division Director of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine and Marshall Hertz, M.D., the Medical Director of the Lung Transplant Program for the University of Minnesota Medical Center - Fairview. Center program areas include: chronic lung disease (e.g. cystic fibrosis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, interstitial lung disease/pulmonary fibrosis, pulmonary hypertension, lung transplantation), respiratory failure and critical care, lung cancer, asthma and allergy, sleep medicine, along with lung health and disease prevention and complementary care.
Website: http://www.lung.umn.edu
E-mail Address: lunginfo@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 625 7741
More Information (CLSH Programs 07_flyer_final.pdf)
Director Marshall Hertz, M.D.
Center for Magnetic Resonance Research
Last Updated: 12/10/2008
CMRR is an interdepartmental and interdisciplinary research laboratory that provides state-of-the-art instrumentation, expertise, and infrastructure to carry out biomedical research utilizing the unique capabilities provided by high field MRI and MRS methodology. The central aim of the research conducted in CMRR is to non-invasively obtain functional, physiological, and biochemical information in intact biological systems, and use this capability to probe biological processes in health and disease.
Website: http://www.cmrr.umn.edu/
Address: 2021 Sixth St. SE ,Minneapolis,MN,55455
Director Kamil Ugurbil
Center for Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics
Last Updated: 12/10/2008
The Center for Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics (MSP) provides nearly all of the modern technology for proteomic research via mass spectrometry and gel electrophoresis plus major resources for analysis of small molecules in biological samples by mass spectrometry. The MSP employs experts in protein preparation and analysis for proteomic research (4 PhD-level scientists, one MS-level and two BS-level individuals) from virtually any type of tissue or cell. It served 180 individual investigators in 2007 in addition to outside biotechnology firms and research institutions. The center maintains collaborative associations with the Proteomic center at the Mayo Clinic and with the Minnesota Supercomputer Institute.
Website: http://cbs.umn.edu/msp/
E-mail Address: krick001@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 624 7715
Address: MSP- General: 5-194 MCB Gary: 7-108 MCB 420 Washington Ave. ,Minneapolis,MN,55455
Director Gary Nelsestuen
Center for Metals in Biocatalysis
Last Updated: 03/31/2009
The Center for Metals in Biocatalysis has been formed to foster interactions among the various groups at the University of Minnesota who are interested in metal ions and their roles in biocatalysis. Research activities include: Biodegradation of aliphatic and aromatic compounds, Mechanisms of biological alkane oxidations by nonheme iron and copper centers, Oxygen activation, Nitrogen oxide metabolism, Synthesis and design of structural and functional models of metalloenzymes, DNA cleavage, Metalloprotein crystallography, and Spectroelectrochemistry.
Website: http://www.chem.umn.edu/cmb/
Director Lawrence Que, Jr.
Center for Micromagnetics and Information Technologies
Last Updated: 01/07/2009
The Center for Micromagnetics and Information Technologies (MINT) is a research center at the University of Minnesota associated with the departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Chemical Engineering and Material Science, and Physics. Research focuses on data storage technologies, including magnetic recording, materials, and signal processing for storage.
Website: http://www.ece.umn.edu/groups/mint/
Address: 4-174 EE/CSci Building 200 Union St. SE ,Minneapolis,MN,55455
Director Victora Randall
Center for MR-Guided Therapy
Last Updated: 03/31/2009
The interventional MR suite at the Fairivew University Medical Center is a joint venture between Fairview and Philips Medical Systems. Over 1100 neurosurgical cases have been performed in the suite, consisting of brain biopsies, tumor resections, and deep brain stimulator placement.
Website: http://www.med.umn.edu/radiology/cmrgt/aboutus.html
Address: 2-300 Fairview-University Medical Center Box 292 Mayo 420 Delaware St. SE ,Minneapolis,MN,55455
Director Chip Truwit
Center for Nanostructure Applications (CNA)
Last Updated: 12/10/2008
The Center for Nanostructure Applications is a focal point for nanotechnology at the University of Minnesota. It's a place where you will be able to find information about faculty engaged in University of Minnesota-specific information such as nano-related research and workshops, as well as announcements on nano related news, calls for proposals, conferences, and other regional and national events.
Website: http://www.nano.umn.edu/
E-mail Address: cna@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 625 3069
Director Stephen Campbell
Center for Neurobehavioral Development (CNBD)
Last Updated: 12/10/2008
The Center for Neurobehavioral Development is a research center that houses over 30 studies about children's cognitive and neurobehavioral functioning. Research at the Center is discovering how brain development affects the way children think, learn and express emotions as they grow from infants to adults.
Website: http://www.umn.edu/cnbd
E-mail Address: cnbd@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 625 5600
Address: 406 Harvard Street SE MMC 507 ,Minneapolis,MN,55455
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Director Michael Georgieff
Center for Neuroengineering
Last Updated: 06/01/2009
Website: http://www.cne.umn.edu/index.htm
Director Bin He
Center for Orphan Drug Research
Last Updated: 12/10/2008
The mission of the Center for Orphan Drug Research (Center) is to improve the care of individuals suffering from rare diseases through research on new therapies, education of health professionals and health profession students, and engagement in rare diseases/orphan drugs public policy.
Phone Number: (612) 625 4244
Director James Cloyd
Center for Restorative Justice and Peacemaking
Last Updated: 03/31/2009
Through restorative justice, victims, communities, and offenders are placed in active roles to work together to: Empower victims in their search for closure, Impress upon offenders the real human impact of their behavior, and Promote restitution to victims and communities.
Website: http://cehd.umn.edu/ssw/rjp/
Director Mark Umbreit
Center for Rural Design
Last Updated: 12/10/2008
The mission of the Center for Rural Design is to work with people to preserve, improve, and protect rural landscapes, cultures and communities through innovative design strategies.
Website: http://ruraldesign.cfans.umn.edu/
E-mail Address: crd@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 871 7979
Director Dewey Thorbeck
Center for School Change
Last Updated: 12/10/2008
The Center works with educators, parents, business people, students, policy-makers and other concerned people throughout the United States to: increase student achievement, raise graduation rates, improve student attitudes toward learning, their schools, and their communities, and strengthen communities through building stronger working relationships among educators, parents, students and other community members.
Website: http://www.centerforschoolchange.org
Phone Number: (612) 626 1834
Director Joe Nathan
Center for Small Towns
Last Updated: 12/11/2008
The Center for Small Towns is a community outreach program housed at the University of Minnesota, Morris and serves as a point-of-entry to the resources of the University of Minnesota. Small towns, local units of government, K-12 schools, non-profit organizations, and other University units are able to utilize the Center's resources as they work on rural issues or make contributions to rural society.
Website: http://www.centerforsmalltowns.org
Phone Number: (320) 589 6451
Director David Fluegel
Center for Spirituality & Healing
Last Updated: 12/10/2008
The Center for Spirituality & Healing is a nationally recognized leader in integrative medicine, bringing together biomedical research, CAM education, cross-cultural awareness and spiritual care. Our vision is to be a world-renowned resource that enhances health and well-being by educating health professionals, empowering consumers, and fundamentally transforming the delivery of healthcare through the creation of interdisciplinary academic, research, clinical care, outreach programs, and community partnerships that advance integrative health and healing. A part of the Academic Health Center, the Center for Spirituality & Healing draws on the rich expertise of faculty and community practitioners to advance our understanding of diverse cultures, beliefs and health practices, and builds on the University's strengths of innovation and clinical excellence.
Website: http://www.csh.umn.edu/
E-mail Address: diamon007@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 624 9459
Address: 6-101 Weaver Densford Hall 308 Harvard Street SE ,Minneapolis,MN,55455
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Director Mary Jo Kreitzer
Center for Sustainable Building Research
Last Updated: 01/20/2009
CSBR provides research and activity in the following areas: sustainable design, energy-efficient buildings, windows and glazing research, improved building delivery process, affordable houseing, building science and engineering, and human factors in transportation.
Website: http://www.csbr.umn.edu/
E-mail Address: csbr@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 626 2737
Address: 1425 University Avenue SE Suite 115 ,Minneapolis,MN,55455
Director John Carmody
Center for Sustainable Enterprise Development
Last Updated: 10/31/2008
The Center for Sustainable Enterprise Development (CSED) provides an interdisciplinary home for research, education, and outreach activities addressing the interface between business, nongovernmental organizations, and government as they work toward harnessing the ingenuity of commercial enterprise for positive social and environmental change. With specific focus on issues of sustainable organizations and management systems, sustainable product design and information disclosure, and improved environmental and social performance assessment methodologies, CSED seeks to facilitate the alignment of private and public actors in achieving sustainability through innovation, information, and behavioral change.
Website: http://www.csed.umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 624 6755
Director Timothy Smith
Center for the Study of Political Psychology
Last Updated: 03/31/2009
Political psychology involves research on political belief systems, political attitudes and behavior and, more recently, on political information processing and cognition. Political psychology also focuses increasingly on the role of affect and emotion and their link to political cognition and behavior.
Website: http://www.polisci.umn.edu/cspp/
E-mail Address: ppcenter@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 624 0864
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Director Christopher Federico
Center for the Study of Politics and Governance
Last Updated: 04/13/2009
Under the leadership of nationally prominent political scientist Lawrence Jacobs, the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance develops practical, independent, and non-partisan solutions to pressing political and policy challenges. Founded in 2005, CSPG fosters effective and efficient governance, increases the transparency of government processes, and rebuilds the public trust in order to counteract negative influences that threaten our democracy. One of the unique strengths of the center is that it brings together three critical components of public governance today: objective high quality analysis, publicly visible forums, and civic engagement. Through collaboration across the public, nonprofit and private sectors, the center generates new knowledge about policy and politics, convenes public events that stimulate vigorous debate, and inspires current and emerging leaders to engage in the creation of innovative approaches to addressing the vital policy issues of our time.
Website: http://www.hhh.umn.edu/centers/cspg/index.php
E-mail Address: cspg@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 625 2530
Director Lawrence Jacobs
Center for the Study of the Individual and Society
Last Updated: 12/10/2008
The Center conducts research aimed at understanding how and why people become actively involved in doing good for others and for society, to answer questions about why people become involved in such pro-social action, what sustains their involvement over time, and the consequences of such action for individuals and for society.
Website: http://csis.psych.umn.edu/
E-mail Address: csis@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 625 9737
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Director Mark Snyder
Center for Urban Ecology and Sustainability
Last Updated: 12/10/2008
CUES strives to educate landscape managers and urban residents about ways to embrace environmental stewardship by practicing sustainable management. A landscape managed through sustainable methods requires low inputs of labor, fertilizers, herbicides, insecticides, and fungicides. Excessive use of these chemicals can pollute surface and ground water and disturb natural ecosystem processes.
Website: http://www.entomology.umn.edu/cues/
Phone Number: (612) 625 7044
Director Vera Krischik
Center for World Heritage Studies
Last Updated: 03/31/2009
Website: http://worldheritage.design.umn.edu/
Director Arthur Chen
Center on Women and Public Policy
Last Updated: 12/10/2008
The Center on Women and Public Policy is the nation's first complete teaching, research, and outreach center devoted to women and public policy. Since 1985, the Center on Women and Public Policy (CWPP) has used gender analysis to challenge fundamental assumptions about politics, law, and economics on issues ranging from human rights to judicial selection and independence.
Website: http://www.hhh.umn.edu/centers/wpp/
Director Sally Kenney
Center to Study Human-Animal Relationships and Environments
Last Updated: 03/31/2009
CENSHARE is an Interdisciplinary Center with a mission to create opportunities to aquire, disseminate and apply knowledge about the relationships between animals, people and their shared environments. Established in 1981 by the Office of the Academic Vice President, the Dean of the School of Public Health and Dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine.
Website: http://www.censhare.umn.edu/
E-mail Address: censhare@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 626 1975
Director Dr. Robert K. Anderson
Central Minnesota Regional Sustainable Development Partnership
Last Updated: 12/30/2008
The University of Minnesota Central Regional Sustainable Development Partnership funds research, education, resources, and outreach projects that address issues affecting the long-term sustainability of our regions.
Website: http://www.regionalpartnerships.umn.edu/index.html
Director Linda Ulland
Cereal Disease Lab
Last Updated: 12/10/2008
The mission of the Cereal Disease Laboratory is to reduce losses in wheat, oat, and barley to major diseases including leaf rust, stem rust, and Fusarium head blight.
Website: http://www.ars.usda.gov/mwa/cdl
Phone Number: (612) 625 7081
Director Marty Carson
Characterization Facility
Last Updated: 03/31/2009
Equipment includes: Small- and Wide-angle X-ray Scattering, Scanning probe microscopes and nanoindentors, Ion Beam Analysis (RBS, FReS, PIXE, NRA), Surface analysis (XPS, Auger, ToF-SIMS), Scanning and Transmission Electron Microscopy (including cryo/bio), Infrared and Raman spectroscopy and microscopy, profilometry, spectroscopic ellipsometry and light microscopy; training/rental of all of the above; educational outreach; internet-based remote usage
Website: http://www.charfac.umn.edu/
E-mail Address: charfac@umn,.edu
Phone Number: (612) 626 7594
Address: U 12 Shepherd Labs 100 Union St S E ,Minneapolis,MN,55455
Director Greg Haugstad
Charles Babbage Institute - Center for the History of Information Technology
Last Updated: 12/16/2008
The Charles Babbage Institute is an historical archives and research center of the University of Minnesota. CBI is dedicated to promoting study of the history of information technology and information processing and their impact on society. CBI preserves relevant historical documentation in all media (paper, audio, film, electronic); conducts and fosters research in history and archival methods; offers graduate fellowships; and sponsors symposia, conferences, and publications.
Website: http://www.cbi.umn.edu/
E-mail Address: cbi@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 624 5050
Director Thomas Misa
Chemical Biology Initiative (CBI)
Last Updated: 12/11/2008
The Chemical Biology Initiative (CBI) is designed to stimulate and encourage interdisciplinary biomedical/biotechnology research, technological development, and education at the cross roads of chemistry, physics, biology, and engineering at the University of Minnesota. Our central goal is to enable the development of a deeper understanding of biology that can be applied to the improvement of health.
Website: http://www.chembio.umn.edu
E-mail Address: wagne003@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 625 2614
Address: 308 Harvard St S E ,Minneapolis,MN,55455
Director Carston (Rick) Wagner
Children, Youth, and Families Consortium
Last Updated: 12/13/2008
The Children, Youth, and Family Consortium was established during the Fall of 1991 to build the capacity of the University of Minnesota and Minnesota communities to use research to inform policy and enhance practice to improve the well-being of Minnesota’s children, youth and families. Core Functions 1. Generate knowledge - CYFC recruits faculty and students of diverse disciplines to conduct research responsive to community defined needs. 2. Catalyze research - CYFC brings together faculty of diverse disciplines and community members to explore research partnerships and provides grant writing support, ongoing coordination of collaborations and assistance in disseminating findings to public, practitioner and policy audiences. 3. Translate research - CYFC uses a variety of mechanisms, such as web and print communication, events and seminars to provide audiences with research-based information in a manner that is accessible and applicable to their work. 4. Policy education - CYFC works with the Minnesota legislature and other policy makers to bring research to decision-makers and to encourage an evidence-based approach to policy-making and implementation.
Website: http://cyfc.umn.edu
E-mail Address: cyfc@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 625 7849
Director Catherine Jordan
China Center
Last Updated: 06/01/2009
The China Center draws on the strengths of the University of Minnesota and partners with public and private organizations in Minnesota and the U.S. to promote relations with Greater China by: Facilitating educational exchange, collaborative research, teaching and training activities, Fostering an understanding of history, cultures, and values, Serving as a catalyst and resource for the promotion of economic, governmental, and civic pursuits, and Increasing mutual interest and understanding.
Website: http://www.chinacenter.umn.edu/
E-mail Address: chinactr@umn.edu
Address: 290 Humphrey Center ,,,
Director Yongwei Zhang
Clinical and Translational Science Institute
Last Updated: 06/01/2009
Office of Clinical Research Mission Statement To create a home for clinical and translational science that promotes collaborative, innovative research and training by bridging disciplines, institutions, and communities to advance knowledge and improve human health. The purpose of the Office of Clinical Research is to: Provide researchers (faculty and non-faculty) in the University of Minnesota with training and support services for conducting clinical and translational research projects. Assist investigators in procuring sponsored research funding. Increase public awareness and advocacy for clinical and translational research.
Website: http://www.ahc.umn.edu/ocr/home.html
E-mail Address: ahcocr@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 626 6033
More Information (Annual_Report.pdf)
Director Bruce Blazer
College Readiness Consortium
Last Updated: 12/23/2008
The College Readiness Consortium (formely the Consortium for Post-secondary Academic Success) was created in 2006 to increase the number and diversity of students who graduate from high school with the knowledge, skills and habits for success in higher education. Toward that end, the Consortium coordinates the following initiatives: 1)P-16 Partnership: statewide education, business and community partners working to guide education policy 2) MN Prncipals Academy: executive development program for principals to create and sustain high-performing schools 3) Ramp-up to Readiness: a program that will guide junior and senior high school students through a research-based sequence of courses, projects, activities and experiences that prepare them for postsecondary success.
Website: http://www.collegeready.umn.edu
E-mail Address: green715@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 625 3695
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Director Kent Pekel
Community Transportation
Last Updated: 02/28/2008
Community transportation offers options for persons who cannot drive or who lack access to vehicles due to limited incomes, language and cultural barriers, advancing age, physical disabilities, or other factors. The Center for Transportation Studies and Hennepin County, with the support of the Federal Transit Administration, have joined together to promote innovations in community transportation through the Community Transportation Web site. The site, sponsored and supported by CTS and Hennepin County, serves as a clearinghouse for information on research and developments in transportation services for communities in need.
Website: http://www.cts.umn.edu/ct/
E-mail Address: cts@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 626 1077
Director Gina Baas
Comparative and Molecular Biosciences
Interdisciplinary graduate program
Last Updated: 12/11/2008
Comparative and Molecular Biosciences (CMB) Graduate Program is interdisciplinary, bringing together graduate faculty with clinical and basic research expertise from various Colleges including the College of Veterinary Medicine; the Medical School; the College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences; and the School of Public Health. The mission of the CMB Graduate Program is to train outstanding researchers in the basic mechanisms of animal and human health and disease.
Website: http://www.cvm.umn.edu/cmb
E-mail Address: cvmmsphd@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 626 1948
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Director Bruce Kenneth Walcheck
Conservation Biology
Interdisciplinary graduate program
Last Updated: 12/22/2008
Conservation Biology is a free-standing, interdisciplinary graduate program, offering PhD, MS, JD/PhD, JD/MS, and minors. The program strives to provide students with sound graduate traing in the biological sciences relevant to the conservation of plant, animals, and ecosystems. and to expose students to the social, political, and economic sciences that relate to both the recognition and solution of conservation problems.
Website: http://www.consbio.umn.edu
E-mail Address: consbio@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 624 7751
Director Susan M. Galatowitsch
Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment, and the Life Sciences
Last Updated: 12/10/2008
The mission of the Consortium is to support work on the legal, ethical, and policy implications of problems in health, environment, and the life sciences. Our goal is to advance knowledge, public understanding, and sound policy. We undertake a wide range of activities including sponsoring public lectures and conferences; offering intramural funding to support faculty, students, and colloquia; recommending faculty hiring and programmatic innovation; encouraging and supporting curricular innovation; facilitating collaborative research; and advising on public policy.
Website: http://www.lifesci.consortium.umn.edu/index.php
Phone Number: (612) 625 0055
Director Susan Wolf
Control Science and Dynamical Systems Center
Interdisciplinary graduate program
Last Updated: 06/01/2009
Research includes: numerical computation, robust control, nonlinear control, linear and nonlinear dynamical systems,and image processing.
Website: http://www.csdy.umn.edu/
E-mail Address: dgs@csdy.umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 624 3364
Director Gary Balas
Cooperative Learning Center
Last Updated: 12/10/2008
The Cooperative Learning Center conducts research and training in structuring cooperative learning groups in classrooms and schools. The training of teachers and administrators covers Pre-Schools through College levels both in the U.S. and internationally. The Center also works with training in the related areas of Conflict resolution and developing cooperative controversy in classrooms.
Website: http://www.co-operation.org/
Director Roger Johnson
Corrosion Research Center
Last Updated: 12/12/2008
The researchers in the CRC have expertize in the areas of aqueous corrosion, high temperature corrosion, batteries and fuel cells. Over the years their interests have involved diverse technical issues, such as the influence of surface morphology on film growth, stresses and fracture in thin oxide films (including both high-temperature and ambient-temperature films), electronic and optical properties of thin oxide films, and oxidation and corrosion of alloys at high temperatures. Currently, aqueous corrosion, miniature fuel cells and lithium batteries are the primary areas of research interest.
Website: http://www1.cems.umn.edu/research/crc/
Phone Number: (612) 625 4048
Director David Shores
Developmental Biology Center
Last Updated: 12/12/2008
The DBC is a group of some thirty faculty with a shared interest in the molecular mechanisms of development; the genetic instructions that create the form and function of the biological world. At the heart of development lies a search for the mechanisms that specify cell fate, control patterning in complex tissues, and organize collections of diverse cells into organs.
Website: http://www.med.umn.edu/dbc/
Address: 6-160 Jackson Hall 321 Church St. SE ,Minneapolis,MN,55455
Director Scott Selleck
Digital Technology Center
Last Updated: 03/31/2009
DTC is a hub of innovation and excellence at the University of Minnesota in the digital technologies serving the industrial, educational, and public needs of the state of Minnesota and the nation. The DTC integrates research, education, and outreach in digital design, computer graphics and visualization, telecommunications, intelligent data storage and retrieval systems, distributed robotics, safety, security, and rescue, multimedia, datamining, scientific computation, wireless communications, advanced storage technologies, and other digital technologies.
Website: http://www.dtc.umn.edu/
E-mail Address: info@dtc.umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 624 9510
Address: 499 Walter Library 117 Pleasant St. S.E. ,Minneapolis,MN,55455
Director Georgios Giannakis
Duluth Medical Research Institute
Last Updated: 12/15/2008
The Duluth Medical Research Institute (DMRI) links scientists from multiple preclinical and clinical biomedical fields to forge innovative biomedical and health research programs. DMRI scientists translate new knowledge and develop preclinical and clinical research informing further research in each domain. The DMRI also facilitates interactions among academics, clinical scientists, and community clinicians to improve use and access to discoveries in medical sciences.
Website: http://www.med.umn.edu/duluth/research/DMRI.html
E-mail Address: dmri@d.umn.edu
Phone Number: (218) 726 7144
Director Mustafa al'Absi
Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior
Interdisciplinary graduate program
Last Updated: 12/17/2008
The Graduate Program in Ecology, Evolution and Behavior (EEB) links faculty and students interested in the biology of organisms from molecules to ecosystems. Studies address questions from molecular mechanisms of evolution, the interactions of organisms in social groups and populations, the distributions and abundances of species in communities and ecosystems, to global biogeochemical processes.
Website: http://www.cbs.umn.edu/eeb/graduateprogram/
E-mail Address: wiggins@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 625 5700
Director Andrew M. Simons
Environmental Resources Spatial Analysis Center (ERSAC)
Last Updated: 03/31/2009
Website: http://www.gis.umn.edu/
Director Marvin Bauer
Epilepsy Research and Education Center
Last Updated: 12/12/2008
The mission of the program is to generate, disseminate and apply knowledge about the causes, epidemiology, management and treatment of epilepsy and related seizure disorders. The program emphasizes research on antiepileptic drug clinical pharmacology, epidemiology and economics, practice models and outcomes including epilepsy surgery.
Website: http://www.pharmacy.umn.edu/centers/epilepsy/
Phone Number: (612) 625 7139
Director Ilo Leppik
Equine Center
Last Updated: 06/01/2009
Website: http://www.cvm.umn.edu/umec/home.html
Director Stephanie Valberg
Experimental Surgery Services
Last Updated: 07/22/2009
At Experimental Surgical Services, we're experts in designing and conducting the appropriate research to determine the safety and efficacy of your device - and determine if it's ready for regulatory submission. We have 30 years experience in pre-clinical assessment for the medical industry. In fact, we're the industry leader in researching and testing cardiac devices and surgical techniques. We complete over 500 open heart procedures a year and over 1,500 procedures annually. ESS services include: Methods development/evaluation developing standard procedures for analysis of devices for the medical device industry Feasibility testing Independent Quality Assurance unit for all GLP studies Gross necropsy and/or full histopathological analysis Consulting services with regard to regulatory strategy ESS is Directed by Richard W. Bianco who has 25 years of experience in the pre-clinical assessment of virtually every animal model. The ESS staff of in-house surgeons can develop or validate your research methods, provide consultation as necessary and offer interpretative and technical support.
Website: http://www.ess.umn.edu
E-mail Address: essinfo@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 625 5914
Address: MMC 220 ,,,
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Director Richard Bianco
Extension Regional Centers
Last Updated: 03/31/2009
Making a difference by connecting community needs and University resources to address critical issues in Minnesota
Website: http://www.extension.umn.edu/offices/
E-mail Address: rcmora@umn.edu
Phone Number: (320) 225 5050
Address: 2008 Mahogany Street Suite 2 Mora ,,MN,55051
Director Rod Elmstrand
Feminist Studies
Interdisciplinary graduate program
Last Updated: 12/11/2008
The Feminist Studies graduate program provides rigorous interdisciplinary training that enables students to conduct scholarly research and analysis both within and outside the academy. Our courses excite students by making clear how research, education, and social change go hand in hand. Our research and teaching interests are tied closely to the expertise of our faculty. Gender, class, race, and sexuality; science, health, and environmental ethics; migration, transnational spaces, and citizenship; collaboration, community, and feminist politics; representation and social inequities; globalization, culture, and power–are at the center of the department’s pedagogical mission. Feminist Studies is located within the Department of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies. It offers students not just a chance to read and create theory, develop new methods for analyzing the world, or sharpen their critical thinking skills–but also the intellectual tools for envisioning a better society and enacting social change.
Website: http://gwss.umn.edu/
E-mail Address: gwss@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 624 6006
Director Eden E. Torres
Food Industry Center
Last Updated: 05/14/2009
The Center focuses on how food retailers (grocers, restaurants, and take-out) serve consumers and how they interact with various suppliers in the food distribution channel.
Website: http://foodindustrycenter.umn.edu
E-mail Address: tfic@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 625 7019
Address: 317 Classroom Office Building ,,,
Director Jean Kinsey
Forest Products Management Development Institute
Last Updated: 12/16/2008
FPMDI`s mission is to increase knowledge about wood products production and use, and associated issues strategies, and technologies on the part of forest products industry employees, key forest products consumer groups, and those involved in shaping national and regional forest policy.
Website: http://www.bbe.umn.edu/FPMDI.html
Phone Number: (612) 624 1293
Director Shri Ramaswamy
Grossman Center for Memory Research and Care
Last Updated: 06/01/2009
Website: http://www.memory.umn.edu/
Director Karen Hsiao Ashe
Health Informatics, interdisciplinary graduate program
Last Updated: 06/01/2009
Website: http://www.ihi.umn.edu/gradprograms/home.html
Director Julie Jacko
Healthy Foods, Healthy Lives Institute
Last Updated: 12/14/2008
The Healthy Foods, Healty Lives Institute is an interdisciplinary institute that brings together University of Minnesota faculty, staff and students, as well as external constituents, to foster and increase the visibility of food and health research, teaching and outreach at the University of Minnesota.
Website: http://www.hfhl.umn.edu
E-mail Address: hfhl.umn.edu
Director Mindy Kurzer
High Field Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Facility
Last Updated: 12/11/2008
The Structural Biology NMR Resource is a user facility whose goal is to make state-of-the-art instrumental resources available to researchers, providing a venue for them to pursue their projects and develop their experience in NMR methods. The facility is a resource of the University of Minnesota Medical School under the Department of Biochemistry Microbiology and Biophysics (BMBB). The facility is housed in Nils Hasselmo Hall (NHH). Available instruments include four Varian Inova NMR spectrometers at field strengths of 800 MHz (cold probe), 600 MHz (2) and 500 MHz with triple-axis gradients, a Bruker Avance 700 MHz NMR spectrometer with cryoprobe, and a full range of probes. Also housed in the facility are two high field Varian solid-state NMR spectrometers (600 MHz and 700 MHz).
Website: http://www.umn.edu/nmr
E-mail Address: ostro016@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 626 1148
Address: 1-130 Hasselmo Hall ,,,
More Information (2007brochure.pdf)
Director Beverly Ostrowski
Holmes Center for Entrepreneurship
Last Updated: 06/01/2009
The mission of the Gary S. Holmes Center for Entrepreneurship is to inspire and educate the next generation of entrepreneurs. The Holmes Center addresses this mission through excellence in teaching, research and outreach: Key Objectives: TEACHING: Delivering innovative curriculum with experiential courses and creative problem-solving, featuring quality faculty with applied entrepreneurial experience. RESEARCH: Establishing a global reputation for insightful academic research on entrepreneurship that attracts leading scholars and students. OUTREACH: Engaging alumni and business community with our students and faculty through quality outreach programs.
Website: http://www.entrepreneurship.umn.edu
E-mail Address: hce@umn.edu
Address: 3-306 Carlson School of Management 321--19th Ave. S. ,Minneapolis,MN,55455
Director John Stavig
Hormel Institute
Last Updated: 06/01/2009
Research includes: Biophysics, Cancer Biology, Cell Signaling and Apoptosis, Cellular and Molecular Biology, Membrane Biochemistry, Nutrition and Metabolism, Stem Cells and Cancer, and Translational Cancer Research.
Website: http://www.hi.umn.edu/
E-mail Address: ambode@hi.umn.edu
Phone Number: (507) 437 8804
Address: 801 16th Ave NE Austin ,,MN,55912
More Information (Institute.pdf)
Director Zigang Dong
Human Resources Research Institute
Last Updated: 03/12/2008
The Human Resources Research Institute provides world-class research, data collection/survey, and analysis services to a wide range of corporate, government, academic, and nonprofit clients. Faculty from economics, psychology, human resources and industrial relations, and the Humphrey Institute help organizations find real-world answers to HR challenges in the workplace.
Website: http:// http://carlsonschool.umn.edu/Page6247.aspx
Director Connie Wanberg
Human Sensorimotor Control Lab
Last Updated: 05/20/2009
The focus of this laboratory is the motor control and learning of patients with brain injury or brain dysfunction. Central to our mission is the clinical assessment of movement in atypical adult populations or children. Research areas include: Cerebellum and Motor Learning, Movement and Perception in Parkinson`s Disease, Motor and Perceptual Development during Childhood.
Website: http://hsc.umn.edu
E-mail Address: hsclab@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 624 4370
Director Juergen Konczak
HumanFIRST Program
Last Updated: 03/31/2009
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Website: http://www.humanfirst.umn.edu/
Director Arlene Mathison
Immigration History Research Center
Last Updated: 12/11/2008
The center promotes interdisciplinary research on international migration, develops archives documenting immigrant and refugee life, especially in the U.S., and makes specialized scholarship accessible to students, teachers, and the public. In addition to scholarly programming with other departments, the center acts in partnership with various ethnic communities, historical agencies, research specialists, educators, and many others. It also hosts an online image database: COLLAGE
Website: http://www.ihrc.umn.edu/
E-mail Address: ihrc@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 625 4800
Director Haven Hawley
India Center
Last Updated: 12/10/2008
With funding from the State Legislature, the University is exploring the creation of a center focusing on India and its geographical neighbors. The India Center is envisioned as a builder of bridges between the University and Minnesota and various academic, intellectual, cultural, and business interests in South Asia.
Website: http://www.international.umn.edu/india/index.php
E-mail Address: international@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 624 5580
Director Meredith McQuaid
Industrial Partnership for Research in Interfacial and Materials Engineering (IPRIME)
Last Updated: 06/25/2008
IPRIME focuses on creating opportunities for professionals in industry to collaborate with students and researchers at the University. This exchange provides a productive environment for addressing key areas in interfacial and materials science.
Website: http://www.iprime.umn.edu/
Address: 304 Amundson Hall ,,,
Director Christopher Macosko
Initiative for Renewable Energy and the Environment (IREE)
Last Updated: 12/19/2008
When the University of Minnesota's Initiative for Renewable Energy and the Environment launched in 2003, topics like climate change, greenhouse gas emissions, biofuels and energy security were just entering the mainstream dialogue. Since then, IREE has quickly become a central part of Minnesota's renewable energy economy, mobilizing nearly 400 experts around one vital mission: "to promote statewide economic development, sustainable, healthy, and diverse ecosystems, and national energy security through development of bio-based and other renewable resources and processes." The 2007 Minnesota State Legislature renewed IREE funding, which is now at the level of $5 million per year. Also in 2007, IREE became a signature program of the Institute on the Environment. IREE will continue to support research in areas relevant to renewable energy and the environment with a variety of grant mechanisms available to University of Minnesota faculty teams. IREE also seeks and supports the expertise and resources of private business and industry, state public agencies, and the nonprofit sector. Faculty funded by IREE have attracted substantial support from state and federal government and private industry.
Website: http://www.iree.umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 625 2263
Address: 334 Cargill Building for Microbial and Plant Genomics 1500 Gortner Ave. ,St. Paul,MN,55108
More Information (Annual Report 07.indd.pdf)
Director Richard Hemmingsen
Innovation Studies
Last Updated: 12/11/2008
Innovation Studies (IS) is an interdisciplinary, post-baccalaureate certificate designed for working adults. Its emphasis is on developing the insights and skills needed to support a shift from an institutional model to a self-reliance model that rewards innovative leadership and problem-solving. This 16 credit certificate draws on a broad, growing body of research and literature that deals with the impact of change on work; the expansion and globalization of business and industry; environmental issues; the evolution of technology; self development & leadership; creativity and invention; future studies, and more.
Website: http://www.cce.umn.edu/is
E-mail Address: cceis@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 626 8724
Director Jo Ellen Lundblad
Insect Collection
Last Updated: 03/31/2009
Faculty and graduate student research focuses on both aquatic and terrestrial insect groups and includes taxonomic, phylogenetic, and applied questions. The Collection is the mainstay of graduate training in systematic entomology at the University of Minnesota.
Website: http://www.entomology.umn.edu/museum/
Director Philip Clausen
Institute for Advanced Study
Last Updated: 12/11/2008
The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) seeks to ignite creative, innovative, and profound research and discovery in the sciences, humanities, and the arts. The IAS is a site, concept, and a community dedicated to public and intellectual exchanges across the fields of human endeavor. It pursues its vision through three primary strategies. First, it provides a physical space at the Nolte Center where artists, scientists, and scholars can engage in and share their work. This strategy encompasses not only scheduled events and presentations, but also unplanned encounters and serious play that facilitate unexpected inspiration, revelation, and collaboration. Second, it supports faculty fellowships and research collaborative programs that bring together artists, scientists, and scholars from across and beyond the University. Third, it convenes an annual symposium that catalyzes conversations across the University of Minnesota and that highlights the most innovative research initiatives that exist in the United States and the world.
Website: http://www.ias.umn.edu/
E-mail Address: ias@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 626 5054
More Information (IAS-burgundy.pdf)
Director Ann Waltner
Institute for Engineering in Medicine
Last Updated: 12/11/2008
The Biomedical Engineering Institute is an interdisciplinary research organization uniting engineering and health sciences faculty and counterparts in the community to create new medical devices, solve clinical problems, and promote collaboration with industry. Research includes: Blood Biocompatibility, Cardiac Cellular Therapy, Cardiovascular Physiology, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Medical Device Design, Muscle Bioengineering, Neural Bioengineering, Orthopaedic Bioengineering, Thermal Therapies, and Tissue Engineering.
Website: http://www.iem.umn.edu
Address: MMC 609 Mayo 420 Delaware St. SE ,Minneapolis,MN,55455
Director Jeffrey McCullough
Institute for Global Studies
Last Updated: 07/30/2008
The Institute for Global Studies (IGS) creates an environment for students and scholars at the University of Minnesota to investigate the sets of interrelated processes forming today’s increasingly interdependent world. IGS provides a vibrant curriculum for students, brings together scholars from diverse disciplines, and works with the community to create partnerships examining global issues.
Website: http://igs.cla.umn.edu/
E-mail Address: igs@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 624 9007
Director Evelyn Davidheiser
Institute for Health Informatics
Last Updated: 06/01/2009
The Institute for Health Informatics (IHI) provides the infrastructure and framework necessary to coalesce health informatics expertise and initiatives at the University of Minnesota. It has its core a research mission that is grounded in basic and translational sciences, all of which are complemented by its education and service missions. The IHI houses the Health Informatics Graduate Program, which trains students in the application of computer and information sciences to the quantitative aspects and decision needs of the health and life sciences.
Website: http://www.ihi.umn.edu
E-mail Address: ihi@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 625 8440
Director Julie Jacko
Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications
Last Updated: 06/01/2009
The Institute for Mathematics and its Applications was established in 1982 by the National Science Foundation, as a result of a national competition. The primary mission of the IMA is to increase the impact of mathematics by fostering research of a truly interdisciplinary nature, linking mathematics of the highest caliber and important scientific and technological problems from other disciplines and industry. Allied with this mission, the IMA also aims to expand and strengthen the talent base engaged in mathematical research applied to or relevant to such problems.
Website: http://www.ima.umn.edu
E-mail Address: staff@ima.umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 624 6066
Address: 400 Lind Hall 207 Church Street S.E. ,Minneapolis,MN,
More Information (trifold.pdf)
Director Fadil Santosa
Institute for New Media Studies
Last Updated: 12/10/2008
The Institute is a partner in the exploration, development, and understanding of new content across industries: journalism, advertising, public relations, social marketing, education, arts and entertainment. The Institute also bridges the study, teaching and research in these areas being done within the University of Minnesota.
Website: http://www.inms.umn.edu
E-mail Address: inms@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 625 0576
Director Nora Paul
Institute for Research in Marketing
Last Updated: 12/10/2008
The Institute for Research in Marketing at the Carlson School of Management leverages the expertise of the Carlson School’s world class marketing faculty and an advisory board of practitioners from leading corporations to foster rigorous and relevant research that improves the science and practice of marketing. Through outreach initiatives that include regular conferences and a web portal, the Institute provides a forum for dialogue among marketing scholars, industry practitioners, policymakers and students.
Website: http://www.carlsonschool.umn.edu/marketinginstitute
E-mail Address: mktginst@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 626 7940
More Information (IRM Academic brochure final version Sept 2006.pdf)
Director Akshay Rao
Institute for Rock Magnetism
Last Updated: 04/06/2009
The Institute for Rock Magnetism (IRM) is a national multiuser facility funded by NSF to provide the Earth Science research community with state-of-the-art facilities and technical expertise for magnetic material characterization. Visiting scholars and resident researchers utilize the resources of the IRM to study contemporary topics in rock magnetism, paleomagnetism, and a broad range of interdisciplinary fields such as biomagnetism, paleoclimatology, and nanomagnetism. The instrumentation at IRM enables measurement of the magnetic properties of materials, including AC and DC magnetic moments and Mössbauer spectra, over a wide range of temperatures (4.2 K - 1000 K) and magnetic fields (10 microtesla - 5 T). In addition, magnetic domain structures may be imaged by various means, including the magneto-optic Kerr effect (MOKE) and magnetic force microscopy (MFM).
Website: http://www.irm.umn.edu
E-mail Address: irm@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 624 5274
More Information (IRM_Description_2009.pdf)
Director Bruce Moskowitz
Institute for Social, Economic, and Ecological Sustainability (ISEES)
Last Updated: 12/12/2008
The Institute for Social, Economic and Ecological Sustainability (ISEES) was initiated in July 1996 to strengthen the University of Minnesota’s capacity to analyze sustainability issues and recommend options for moving toward sustainability. Our vision is based on the fundamental idea that sustainable relationships between the social, economic and ecological spheres of the world are possible and desirable. ISEES brings together people from the natural and social sciences and practitioners to analyze sustainability issues and recommend options for moving toward sustainability. We believe that the development of options for sustainability requires integrating social, economic, and ecological factors. ISEES is currently hosting the University of Minnesota Ecosystem Science and Sustainability Initiative with a generous grant from the Archibald Bush Foundation since 2004. The goal is to explore how ecosystems and socio-economic systems can work hand-in-hand for the long-term benefit of all. Working with faculty from across the University, the Initiative has launched a new Sustainability Studies Minor at the UMN, is conducting research on Minnesota's environmental future to the year 2050, and runs outreach programs for teachers and journalists, and the public.
Website: http://fwcb.cfans.umn.edu/isees/Default.html
E-mail Address: isees@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 624 7723
Address: ISEES/MacArthur Office 186 McNeal Hall ,,,
More Information (Sustainability brochure-NEW2.pdf)
Director Anne Kapuscinski
Institute for the Advancement of Science and Technology
Last Updated: 12/10/2008
The Institute for the Advancement of Science and Engineering will be a system-wide, premier research institute dedicated to contributing knowledge and providing solutions to great challenges that require multidisciplinary approaches across the sciences and engineering. Its mission is to engage in world-class interdisciplinary research at the intersection of biological, chemical, physical, engineering, and computational sciences to promote science-based solutions to some of the biggest challenges in energy, human health, and the environment. The Institute will be focused on a small number of themes that attract highly competitive teams of faculty. Themes will change over time. While the IASE will not be the home of undergraduate or graduate programs, it will play an important role in the education and training of undergraduate and graduate students and their preparation for STEM careers. The Institute will offer public lectures and other means to educate the public.
Director Claudia Neuhauser
Institute for Therapeutics Discovery and Development (ITDD)
Last Updated: 12/16/2008
Institute for Therapeutics Discovery and Development (ITDD; Gunda I. Georg, Ph.D., Director, Vadim J. Gurvich, Ph.D., Associate Director) is a research center within the College of Pharmacy that would enable creating an almost complete line from drug discovery to drug development to clinical trials within the University of Minnesota. The Institute’s purpose is to conduct research, provide education and offer scientific services to research and business communities in the area of drug discovery and development. The Institute greatly enhances the research capabilities of the University of Minnesota by allowing translation of the biological discoveries to new therapies and bringing drugs to market. The Institute consists of four scientific cores - Medicinal Chemistry, High-Throughput Screening, Lead and Probe Discovery, and Chemical Process Development. The Institute offers a variety of services including drug discovery, HTS and assay development (assay capabilities include absorbance, FRET, fluorescence, luminescence, cell based reporter & viability assays, FP, and high content image analysis assays), computational drug design, lead identification and optimization, medicinal chemistry, organic chemistry, chemical libraries development, chemical process development, scale up, API synthesis under cGMP conditions, CMC support for IND applications, protein purification, analytical services, and others.
Website: http://www.itdd.umn.edu
E-mail Address: vadimg@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 626 6317
More Information (ITDD Brochure1.pdf)
Director Vadim Gurvich
Institute for Translational Neuroscience
Last Updated: 03/31/2009
Website: http://www.itn.umn.edu/
Director Harry Orr
Institute of Human Genetics
Last Updated: 03/31/2009
IHG provides research space for a core group of principal investigators and genetic core facilities to investigators through the Mouse Genetic Laboratory, Genomics Core Lab, Genetics Research Core Lab, Histology Core Lab.
Website: http://www.med.umn.edu/ihg/
Address: MMC 206 ,,,
Director Rosalyn Segal
Institute of Linguistics, English as a Second Language, and Slavic Languages and Literature
Last Updated: 12/31/2008
The Center supports the educational goals of the University of Minnesota and of its College of Liberal Arts by advancing programs of research and teaching relating to Linguistics, to English as a Second Language and to second-language learning in general, and to the Slavic and Central Asian languages, literatures, and cultures.
Website: http://www.iles.umn.edu/
E-mail Address: iles@umn.edu
Director George Sheets
Institute on Community Integration
Last Updated: 12/11/2008
The Institute`s mission is to improve the quality and community orientation of services and supports available to individuals with developmental disabilities and their families. Rather than providing direct services itself, the Institute works with community service providers, school districts, advocacy and self-advocacy organizations, policymakers, and researchers around the world to provide state-of-the-art information and practices that support the community integration of individuals with disabilities.
Website: http://ici.umn.edu/
E-mail Address: ici@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 624 6300
Director David Johnson
Institute on Race and Poverty
Last Updated: 12/11/2008
The Institute on Race & Poverty (IRP) investigates the ways that policies and practices disproportionately affect people of color and the disadvantaged. A core purpose for IRP's work is to ensure that people have access to opportunity. Another is to help the places where people live develop in ways that promote access to opportunity and help maintain regional stability.
Website: http://www.irpumn.org/website/
E-mail Address: irp@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 625 8071
More Information (IRP Trifold.Brochure.100808pdf.pdf)
Director Myron Orfield
Institute on the Environment
Last Updated: 12/18/2008
The University of Minnesota’s Institute on the Environment (IonE) is dedicated to discovering solutions to the earth’s most pressing environmental problems through cutting-edge research, world-class leadership development and innovative collaboration.
Website: http://environment.umn.edu
E-mail Address: ione@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 626 9553
Director Jonathan Foley
Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change
Last Updated: 03/31/2009
The Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change has the following objectives: • To foster an interdisciplinary, cross-cultural community of faculty and students committed to studying global change. • To provide intellectual and financial support for graduate/professional students focusing on the global south. • To provide graduate/professional student grants for internships and predissertation fieldwork in the global south. • To organize interdisciplinary seminars and workshops on theoretical, comparative and methodological issues related to global change and offer ICGC scholars a graduate minor in Development Studies and Social Change. • To present formal public lectures and informal discussion series by scholars and practitioners. • To collaborate with Dillard University, Tougaloo College and University of Minnesota, Morris, in a multi-year Honors Program in International Studies for U.S. undergraduate students of color headed for graduate school. • To develop transnational scholarly partnerships with universities and other institutions in the global south.
Website: http://www.icgc.umn.edu/
E-mail Address: ICGC@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 624 0832
Address: 560 Heller Hall (main office is in 537 Heller Hall) ,,,
More Information (07-08 BROCHURE text uofm.pdf)
Director Karen Brown
International Medical Education and Research (IMER)
Last Updated: 12/11/2008
Mission: The mission of the University of Minnesota International Medical Education and Research Program is to promote an exchange of international educational, research and other scholarly opportunities for medical and graduate students and faculty. Focus: The primary focus of the Program is on education of medical and graduate students. In addition to promoting bi-directional exchange of students between the University of Minnesota and appropriate organizations within developing and developed countries, the Program supports faculty members engaged in medical education and research abroad.
Website: http://www.med.umn.edu/imer/home.html
E-mail Address: imer@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 625 7933
Address: MMC 293 ,,,
Director Phillip Peterson
International Science and Technology Practice and Policy Center (InSTePP)
Last Updated: 03/31/2009
Website: http://www.instepp.umn.edu/
Director Philip Pardey
Internet Studies Center
Last Updated: 06/01/2009
The Internet Studies Center at the University of Minnesota addresses compelling questions surrounding the social, ethical, legal, and rhetorical aspects of the Internet. Research centers on privacy, credibility, and distance education through the Internet.
Address: OIT 660 WBOB ,,,
Director Myron Lowe
Interpersonal Relationships Research
Interdisciplinary graduate program
Last Updated: 12/10/2008
The minor in interpersonal relationships research provides doctoral students at the University of Minnesota with broad theoretical and methodological foundations for research on behavioral interaction patterns between two persons and the impact of these interactions. A recently recognized and rapidly advancing multidisciplinary field of scientific inquiry, the roots of interpersonal relationships research lie in psychology, sociology, family studies, communication, and nursing. The program brings together faculty and students active in research on interpersonal relationships from eight University departments and schools.
Website: http://cehd.umn.edu/icd/IrelMinor/default.html
Director Jeffry A. Simpson
Itasca Biological Station and Laboratories
Last Updated: 12/11/2008
The Itasca Biological Station and Laboratories is one of the oldest continuously operated inland field stations in the United States. It is the perfect place to study many organisms in their natural environments because the Station is near the intersection of the northern coniferous forest, the eastern deciduous forest, and the western prairie.
Website: http://www.cbs.umn.edu/itasca/
E-mail Address: fider002@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 624 6743
Director David Biesboer
Julia M. Davis Speech-Language-Hearing Center
Last Updated: 12/10/2008
We offer clinical speech-language therapy and hearing-related services to the public as well as the University community. These services include assessment, treatment, and hearing instrument dispensing for children through adults. Our services are offered in the context of graduate student education, under the supervision of licensed and certified master clinicians. We also advocate for individuals with speech, language, hearing, or cognitive communication disorders.
Website: http://www.slhs.umn.edu/clinical/
E-mail Address: slhs@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 624 3322
Director Mark Deruiter
Juran Center for Leadership in Quality
Last Updated: 06/01/2009
The center`s mission includes: Granting Juran Fellowships to doctoral students conducting research in quality and maintaining a comprehensive body of knowledge on the topic of quality.
Website: http://www.csom.umn.edu/Page1260.aspx
E-mail Address: juranctr@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 625 4554
Director Jim Buckman
Law, Health and the Life Sciences (joint degree)
Interdisciplinary graduate program
Last Updated: 06/01/2009
The Joint Degree Program in Law, Health and the Life Sciences (JDP) was approved by the Regents in June 1999 and welcomed its first student in 1999-2000. We currently offer over 20 degree combinations for students who seek to combine a law degree with a graduate or professional degree in medicine, biological sciences, public health, environmental sciences, or science policy. Our program is unique in the country as it brings together students and faculty studying a broad range of domains in law, ethics, policy, and the biomedical and life sciences.
Website: http://www.jointdegree.umn.edu
E-mail Address: jointdegree@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 625 0055
Director Susan Wolf
Liberal Studies
Interdisciplinary graduate program
Last Updated: 12/11/2008
The Master of Liberal Studies (MLS) is interdisciplinary in scope and intent, allowing students to take coursework across disciplines. Designed for adult, part-time students with wide-ranging professional and educational backgrounds and goals, the program allows students to create their unique focus areas. The goals of the program include sharpening verbal and written communication skills, broadening general knowledge, and strengthening the capacity to think critically and creatively.
Website: http://www.cce.umn.edu/mls
E-mail Address: ccemls@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 626 8724
Director Jo Ellen Lundblad
Life Course Center
Last Updated: 06/01/2009
The Life Course Center was founded in 1986 to support scholarly inquiry related to the life course. Through regular seminars, the Center provides an intellectual forum that enriches the research and educational activities of a broad range of faculty and students in the Department of Sociology as well as in other units of the University. Life course studies encompass all stages of life from birth to death. Affiliated faculty use a wide range of theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches, including qualitative and quantitative work, historical studies of the life course in different periods, comparative work that spans diverse societal contexts, and applied, policy-relevant research. Graduate students participate as research assistants and collaborators in Center affiliate faculty research, in the Youth Development Study, and other projects. Students and faculty alike share their research in the Department of Sociology’s weekly Sociology Workshop Series, www.soc.umn.edu/events/workshop.php
Website: http://www.soc.umn.edu/research/lcc/
E-mail Address: lcc@soc.umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 624 6333
More Information (Flyer121008.doc)
Director Professor Ian R. (Ross) Macmillan
Literacy and Rhetorical Studies
Interdisciplinary graduate program
Last Updated: 06/01/2009
The Minor was created to provide a forum for students and faculty interested in various facets of writing and communication. Students craft an individualized program of study including literacy theory and practice, research methods, and historical inquiry around the topics of the Minor - literacy and rhetoric.
Website: http://writing.umn.edu/lrs/index.htm
E-mail Address: writing@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 626 7583
Director Donald Ross Jr
Maddy Test
Last Updated: 07/07/2009
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Director MAdhavan Vasudevan
Magnetic Microscopy Center
Last Updated: 01/13/2009
The MMC has focused on the applications and advancement of Magnetic Force Microscopy (MFM) . With great versatility in Scanning Force Microscopes, along with the many other magnetic probes to which the MMC has access, such as Superconducting Quantum Interference Device (SQUID), and Vibrating Sample Magnetometer (VSM). The focus of this group has been on high resolution magnetic force microscopy (HRMFM), exchange bias, giant magnetoresistance (GMR), colossal magnetoresistance (CMR) and spinglasses.
Website: http://groups.physics.umn.edu/mmc/
Director Dan Dahlberg
Management Information Systems Research Center
Last Updated: 03/12/2008
The MIS Research Center provides a bridge for the MIS faculty and the business community to come together. Our goal to promote this interaction between MIS professionals and academicians not only improves the MIS program but it also precipitates back into the business community. The overall mission of the MISRC is to be a “window into the MIS Program at the Carlson School.”
E-mail Address: dsarppo@csom.umn.edu
Director Rob Kauffman
Manure Management and Air Quality Education
Last Updated: 03/31/2009
The Center houses data on Manure Storage, Manure Treatment, Manure Application, Air Quality, Open Lots, Health and Safety, Milkhouse Waste, Horse Manure, Dead Animals, and Regulations.
Website: http://www.manure.umn.edu/
Director David Schmidt
Medical Devices Center
Last Updated: 11/26/2008
The Medical Devices Center combines basic research, applied translational research, education and training, and outreach/public engagement to accelerate interdisciplinary medical device research and development.
Website: http://www.mdc.umn.edu
Director Arthur Erdman
Medical Industry Leadership Institute
Last Updated: 01/27/2009
Established by the Carlson School and the University of Minnesota in 2005, the Medical Industry Leadership Institute is dedicated to the advancement of cutting-edge MBA education, executive education, research, and market development.
Website: http://www.csom.umn.edu/mili
E-mail Address: mili@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 624 1532
More Information (MILI brochure.pdf)
Director Stephen Parente
Metropolitan Design Center
Last Updated: 07/13/2009
The Metropolitan Design Center is an emerging design and research-based institution belonging to the College of Design at the University of Minnesota, conceived to facilitate an environment for creative thinking and community engagement while fostering an integrative view of the City, bringing together many fields of research to advance innovative urban design strategies for the achievement of sustainable cities and regions in the State of Minnesota.
Website: http://www.designcenter.umn.edu/
E-mail Address: mdc@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 625 9000
Director Ignacio San Martin
Microbial and Plant Genomics Institute
Last Updated: 12/11/2008
The mission of the Microbial and Plant Genomics Institute (MPGI) is to promote advances in microbial and plant genomics, genomics-enabled science, and molecular genetics for the benefit of society. The Institute supports research, educational and outreach activities that foster a multi-disciplinary interchange of ideas and cutting-edge technologies and their applications. Activities of the Institute contribute to basic science and the translation of genomics for applications to the environment, agriculture, and human health.
Website: http://www.mpgi.umn.edu/
Phone Number: (612) 624 6198
Address: 1500 Gortner Ave. ,St. Paul,MN,55108
Director Michael Sadowsky
Microbiology, Immunology and Cancer Biology
Interdisciplinary graduate program
Last Updated: 12/16/2008
The Microbiology, Immunology and Cancer Biology (MICaB) Ph.D. Graduate Program provides training that emphasizes the interdisciplinary nature of biomedical and biological research, while providing opportunities for students to specialize in a specific research area of interest.
Website: http://www.micab.umn.edu
E-mail Address: shand@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 624 5947
Director Sandra Armstrong
Midwest Dairy Foods Research Center
Last Updated: 03/31/2009
The Center focuses particularly on flavor development and functionality in cheese, improving the performance of cheese starter cultures through genetics, adding value to milk-based products with probiotics and nutraceuticals, improving shelf life of flavored milks, reducing undesirable taste of milk, improving functionality and controlling flavor attributes of milk fractionation components, and developing methods for effective and profitable uses of whey.
Website: http://fscn.cfans.umn.edu/researchandservices/Centers/midwestdairycenter/
E-mail Address: lloyd.metzger@sdstate.edu
Phone Number: (612) 614 7786
More Information (Innovate with Dairy.pdf)
Director Lloyd Metzger
Midwest Universities Radon Consortium
Last Updated: 12/11/2008
MURC is an interdisciplinary Regional Radon Training Center founded in 1989 by the University of Minnesota in cooperation with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Kansas State University to conduct research and training that reduces the loss of life from indoor radon exposure especially in the North Central Region of the United States. MURC also works collaboratively with Health Canada, the World Health Organization, Auburn University, Rutgers University, and the University of Colorado. MURC has delivered courses on radon measurement, prevention, and mitigation in homes, multi-family residential buildings and schools in more than 30 states, provinces, and tribal nations for more than 10,000 participants. MURC has also conducted more than 100 externally funded research, demonstration, and training project in the past 20 years.
Website: http://cce.umn.edu/radon
E-mail Address: cceconf2@umn.edu
Phone Number: (800) 843 8636
More Information (CPE1898_RadonBro08.pdf)
Director William J. Angell
Minnesota Area Geriatric Education Center
Last Updated: 06/01/2009
Website: http://www.hpm.umn.edu/coa/MAGEC/index.html
Director Robert Kane
Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse (MINCAVA)
Last Updated: 12/11/2008
The Center was established in 1994 by a grant authorized by the Minnesota Legislature. MINCAVA conducts research on family violence and provides information and resources on violence prevention through a variety of funded projects including the Electronic Clearinghouse (http://www.mincava.umn.edu), the VAWnet Applied Research Forum (http://www.vawnet.org), Violence Against Women Online Resources (http://www.vaw.umn.edu), Child Exposure to Domestic Violence Project (http://www.mincava.umn.edu/link) and the Hague Domestic Violence Project (http://www.haguedv.org/). The Center is a program of the School of Social Work, an academic unit of the College of Education and Human Development.
Website: http://www.mincava.umn.edu
E-mail Address: mincava@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 624 0721
Director Jeffrey Edleson
Minnesota Center for Industrial Mathematics
Last Updated: 12/10/2008
The Minnesota Center for Industrial Mathematics (MCIM) is an educational and research Center in the School of Mathematics at the University of Minnesota. The primary mission of MCIM is to facilitate the involvement of graduate students and faculty in "industrial research" in mathematics, that is, in research in connection with specific industrial applications that rely on sophisticated mathematical developments.
Website: http://www.math.umn.edu/mcim/
Director Carme Calderer
Minnesota Center for Reading Research
Last Updated: 12/24/2008
The mission of the Minnesota Center for Reading Research is to conduct applied and translational research on reading and on teaching approaches that facilitate reading instruction. The focus is on conducting research that supports teachers, particularly those who teach students of poverty, as they learn to effectively teach children and youth from diverse backgrounds, to become competent readers in K-12 school settings. Considerable emphasis is on translating research into practice. Specific problems and issues in reading that require creative and powerful research efforts include the following: Determining effective instructional approaches to engage struggling readers at the lower/ upper elementary levels and middle/high school levels; Developing research-based, coherent school-wide literacy programs and the supports needed to enact systemic change with a teaching staff; Developing and researching literacy assessments that measure and document students' growth in formative and summative ways and that are coherent features to systemic programs.
Website: http://cehd.umn.edu/reading/
E-mail Address: iccook@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 624 4561
Director Barbara Taylor
Minnesota Center for Twin and Family Research
Last Updated: 12/11/2008
The MCTFR seeks to identify environmental and genetic influences on psychological traits. Focusing on parents and their adolescent children, the MCTFR includes studies of twins, adoptees, and biologically related adolescent siblings.
Website: http://www.psych.umn.edu/research/
Director William Iacono
Minnesota Craniofacial Research Training (MinnCResT) Program
Last Updated: 02/13/2009
The Minnesota Craniofacial Research Training Program is an innovative interdisciplinary program designed to develop a cadre of scientists who explore the frontiers of craniofacial, dental, and oral health research. We have over 80 mentors forming cross-disciplinary teams of trainees and mentors from such fields as biology, neuroscience, microbiology, genetics, immunology, engineering, psychology, dentistry, medicine, and other disciplines that contribute to its research training mission.
Website: http://www.dentistry.umn.edu/minncrest/
E-mail Address: mncrest@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 625 3974
Director Mark Herzberg, DDS, PhD
Minnesota Dental Research Center for Biomaterials and Biomechanics (MDRCBB)
Last Updated: 09/23/2009
The Minnesota Dental Research Center for Biomaterials and Biomechanics (MDRCBB) is a multi-disciplinary resource dedicated to furthering research and development in biomaterials, and biomechanics. The MDRCBB has the physical facilities, equipment, and faculty expertise for collaborative studies with researchers within and outside the School of Dentistry. This includes faculty from other departments, graduate students, undergraduate dental students, and visiting researchers. The MDRCBB research environment is based on collaboration among the MDRCBB faculty members and other researchers. The Center welcomes researchers to present their ideas to the MDRCBB faculty and to discuss methods that will best achieve their goals. MDRCBB faculty regularly provide their expertise and train researchers in the use of the Center’s technology, which include simulators of chewing and tooth brushing, 3D scanning, Finite Element Analysis, the Virtual Dental Patient, Fracture toughness and microhardness testing, and simulations of artificial caries and remineralization.
Website: http://www.dentistry.umn.edu/mdrcbb
Phone Number: (612) 625 0950
Director Alex Fok
Minnesota Geological Survey
Last Updated: 12/12/2008
The Minnesota Geological Survey was established by Legislative Act on March 1, 1872 to ensure the availability of the regional geological, geophysical, and geochemical information that the people of the State require to ensure wise stewardship of their water, land, and mineral resources, and to thus realize societal benefits related to economic prosperity, public health, natural hazards, as well as appreciation and preservation of our natural heritage.
Website: http://www.geo.umn.edu/mgs/
E-mail Address: mgs@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 627 4780
Address: N.H. Winchell School of Earth Sciences 2642 University Ave W ,St. Paul,MN,55114
Director Harvey Thorleifson
Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agriculture
Last Updated: 12/11/2008
MISA's purposes is to bring together the agricultural community and the University community in a cooperative effort to develop and promote sustainable agriculture in Minnesota and beyond. We strive to balance the long-term economic, ecological and social aspects of agricultural systems.
Website: http://www.misa.umn.edu/
E-mail Address: misamail@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 625 8235
Director Helene Murray
Minnesota Journalism Center
Last Updated: 12/14/2008
The center`s mission is three-fold: to improve the practice of journalism, including advertising, public relations and new media; to promote interaction between media professionals and the academy; and to serve as the outreach arm of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
Website: http://www.mjc.umn.edu/
E-mail Address: mnjrnctr@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 626 1723
Director Kathleen Hansen
Minnesota Laboratory for Low-Vision Research
Last Updated: 12/11/2008
The Minnesota Laboratory for Low-Vision Research, located at the University of Minnesota, is dedicated to research on reading difficulties and other important visual problems encountered by people with low vision.
Low vision is any eye condition, not correctable by glasses or contacts, that results in visual impairment. Low vision can be caused by macular degeneration, glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy, cataract, retinitis pigmentosa, and many other eye disorders.
Website: http://vision.psych.umn.edu/groups/gellab/
E-mail Address: lowvision@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 625 4516
Director Gordon Legge
Minnesota Landscape Arboretum
Last Updated: 03/31/2009
The Arboretum's mission is to be a resource for horticultural and environmental information, research and public education. To inspire and delight visitors with quality plants in well-designed and maintained displays, collections, model landscapes, and conservation areas.
Website: http://www.arboretum.umn.edu/
Phone Number: (952) 443 1400
Director Mary Meyer
Minnesota Local Technical Assistance Program (LTAP)
Last Updated: 01/07/2009
The mission of Minnesota LTAP is to improve the skills and knowledge of local transportation agencies through training, technical assistance, and technology transfer. Ultimately, the goal of Minnesota LTAP is to foster a safe, efficient, and environmentally sound transportation system. Launched in 1992, Minnesota LTAP conducts workshops and seminars, conferences, customized training, demonstrations, and distance learning. In addition, Minnesota LTAP publishes newsletters and maintains a Web site with extensive resources. Minnesota LTAP is part of the National Local Technical Assistance Program Association (NLTAPA), which was formed in 1982 by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). NLTAPA consists of a network of centers nationwide—one in each state and Puerto Rico—as well as several Tribal Technical Assistance Programs, or TTAPs. In addition, there are six centers in Mexico. Cities, counties, and townships maintain more than 3 million miles of road and 301,000 bridges in the United States. Keeping them safe and navigable requires a skilled and knowledgeable workforce. The LTAP network helps meet this crucial need.
Website: http://www.mnltap.umn.edu/
E-mail Address: mnltap@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 626 1077
Director Jim Grothaus
Minnesota Population Center
Last Updated: 12/12/2008
The Minnesota Population Center (MPC) is a University-wide interdisciplinary cooperative for demographic research. MPC fosters connections among population researchers across disciplines and opens new opportunities for large-scale collaborative externally funded research projects. The Center provides shared infrastructure for demographic analysis and administration to approximately sixty faculty members and research associates from ten colleges and nineteen departments at the University of Minnesota. The unit employs approximately a hundred research support staff, including computer programmers and technicians, administrative staff, research assistants, and data-entry staff. As a leading developer and disseminator of demographic data, we also serve a broader audience of some 25,000 demographic researchers worldwide. One of our central missions is to provide tools for the study of economic and social change and to encourage a historical approach to social policy analysis. To that end, we have developed several of the largest and most powerful demographic databases in the world.
Website: http://www.pop.umn.edu/
E-mail Address: mpc@pop.umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 624 5818
Director Steven Ruggles
Minnesota Space Grant Consortium
Last Updated: 12/10/2008
The mission of the MnSGC is to provide a driving force for aerospace education in Minnesota. Program goals and objectives include diversity, competitiveness coupled with accessibility, ties with NASA centers and enterprises, and relationships with industry and state government.
Website: http://www.aem.umn.edu/msgc/
E-mail Address: mnsgc@aem.umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 626 9295
Director William Garrard
Minnesota Supercomputing Institute for Advanced Computational Research
Last Updated: 12/16/2008
The mission of the Supercomputing Institute is supercomputing research. This includes all aspects of high-performance computing and scientific modeling and simulation as well as graphics, visualization, high-performance network communications, informatics, and data mining. Research involves the use of high-performance computing environments to address problems in the physical, biological, medical, mathematical, and computing sciences and engineering as well as other fields that use computers in their research.
Website: http://www.msi.umn.edu/
Phone Number: (612) 624 0528
Director Thomas Jones
Minnesota Traffic Observatory
Last Updated: 06/01/2009
The Minnesota Traffic Observatory (MTO) is a transportation laboratory focusing on testing and evaluation of new transportation management and operational strategies and traveler information technologies. The MTO also supports the ITS Institute’s research, education and outreach efforts, providing laboratory facilities for graduate and undergraduate students as well as educational resources for course instructors and transportation professionals.
Website: http://www.mto.umn.edu
E-mail Address: hourdos@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 626 5492
Director John Hourdos
MIST Center
Last Updated: 12/30/2008
The purpose of the MIST Center is to integrate interdisciplinary faculty, graduate students, and visiting researchers from academia, industry, and government in applied and basic research in advanced integrated system design and design automation technologies by supporting research with industrial, government, and academic funding and state-of-the-art research equipment; to provide graduate education through research, courses, and seminars on topics related to integrated systems; and to transfer technologies related to integrated system design and automation through research reports, publications, theses, patents, seminars, annual reviews, short courses, and workshops.
Website: http://mist.ece.umn.edu/
Director Kia Bazargan
Museum Studies
Interdisciplinary graduate program
Last Updated: 12/10/2008
Museum Studies is a freestanding graduate minor providing graduate students contemplating professional museum work with insight into and some experience with museum operations. The minor is open to any graduate student. Upper division undergraduates may take 5000 level courses. The program does not offer a degree or certificate in museum studies. Supported by several departments, it does not focus on any one type of museum. Museums collect objects as records of the past (art, history, natural history, etc.) make them available for study and may interpret them for the public. Studying museums can provide insights into their subject disciplines.
Website: http://www.bellmuseum.org/museum_studies.html
E-mail Address: murdo001@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 624 6380
Director Gordon Robert Murdock
MyMinnesotaWoods.org
Last Updated: 12/10/2008
www.MyMinnesotaWoods.org is an Extension website serving Minnesota's 150,000 private woodland owners. Collectively, this group owns and manages well over 5 million acres of forest land. This website provides accurate, reliable, research based information on woodland stewardship, wildlife management, silviculture, timber harvesting, and more.
Website: http://www.myminnesotawoods.org
More Information (MyMinnesotaWoods home.pdf)
Director Eli Sagor
Nano and Microsystems Applications Center (NMAC)
Last Updated: 06/01/2009
NMAC carries out basic and applied research focused on advanced nano & microsystems development through interdisciplinary partnerships between academic faculty and industrial/government researchers.
Website: http://nmac.umn.edu
Director Bethanie Stadler
Nanofabrication Center
Last Updated: 12/10/2008
The Nanofabrication Center (NFC), is an interdisciplinary facility administered by the Institute of Technology, that has a University-wide mission to support academic and industrial research as well as education, in microelectronics, micro systems, nanotechnology, and other related work involving micro and nano fabrication.
Website: http://www.nfc.umn.edu/
Phone Number: (612) 624 8005
Address: Rm 1-165 EECS Bldg 200 Union St SE ,Minneapolis,MN,55455
Director Stephen Campbell
Nanoparticle Science and Engineering
Interdisciplinary graduate program
Last Updated: 02/04/2009
Director Uwe Richard Kortshagen
National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics
Last Updated: 12/11/2008
NCED's NCED's purpose is to catalyze development of an integrated, predictive science of the processes shaping the surface of the Earth, in order to transform management of ecosystems, resources, and land use.
Website: http://www.nced.umn.edu/
Phone Number: (612) 624 4606
Address: St. Anthony Falls Lab 2 Third Avenue SE ,Minneapolis,MN,55414
Director Efi Foufoula-Georgiou
National Center for Food Protection and Defense
Last Updated: 01/07/2009
The National Center for Food Protection and Defense (NCFPD) was officially launched as a Homeland Security Center of Excellence in July 2004. A multidisciplinary and action-oriented research consortium, NCFPD addresses the vulnerability of the nation's food system to attack through intentional contamination with biological or chemical agents. NCFPD's research and education program is aimed at reducing the potential for contamination at any point along the food supply chain and mitigating potentially catastrophic public health and economic effects of such attacks. The program incorporates cutting-edge research across a wide range of disciplines, taking a comprehensive, farm-to-table view of the food system and encompassing all aspects from primary production through transportation and food processing to retail and food service.
Website: http://www.ncfpd.umn.edu
E-mail Address: ncfpd@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 624 2458
Address: 925 Delaware St SE Suite 200 ,Minneapolis,MN,55414
Director Shaun Kennedy
National Center on Secondary Education and Transition
Last Updated: 12/11/2008
The National Center on Secondary Education and Transition (NCSET) coordinates national resources, offers technical assistance, and disseminates information related to secondary education and transition for youth with disabilities in order to create opportunities for youth to achieve successful futures.
Website: http://www.ncset.org/
Director David Johnson
National Resilience Resource Center
Last Updated: 12/27/2008
NRRC assists school, community, and organizational leaders in enhancing capacity to tap natural, innate health or resilience of youth, families, communities, and organizational systems. The goal is to assist leaders to view all students, families, residents, clients, or organizations as "at promise" rather than "at risk."
Website: http://www.cce.umn.edu/nrrc/
E-mail Address: nrrc@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 626 1693
Director Kathy Marshall Emerson
Natural Resources Science and Management
Interdisciplinary graduate program
Last Updated: 06/01/2009
The Natural Resources Science and Management Graduate Program offers the Master of Science and PhD degrees that are aligned with eight tracks: (1) Forests: biology, ecology, conservation and management; (2) Economics, policy management and society; (3) Assessment, monitoring, and geospatial analysis; (4) Recreation Resources, tourism, and environmental education; (5)Forest hydrology and watershed management; (6) Wildlife ecology and management; (7) Paper Science and Engineering; and (8) Forest products.
Website: http://www.nrsm.umn.edu
E-mail Address: lwiley@umn.edu
Director Mike Kilgore
New Product Design and Business Development Program
Last Updated: 06/08/2009
A team of graduate students, one half engineering and one half business, works with a client company to develop a new product. Deliverables include a working prototype and a comprehensive business plan. Technical, market, and financial feasibility is researched. Projects start in September and finish the following April.
Website: http://www.npdbd.umn.edu
Address: 1101 MechE Mail Stop 0691 111 Church St S E ,Minneapolis,MN,55455
Director William Durfee
Nutrition
Interdisciplinary graduate program
Last Updated: 06/01/2009
The nutrition graduate program is an interdisciplinary graduate program focused on training master's and doctoral students in the discipline of nutrition, with a major emphasis on research. The program is made up of over 45 faculty members including those from a number of University of Minnesota units (CFANS, SPH, Medical School, Education, Extension, Hormel Institute, UMN Duluth) as well as the Mayo Clinic, VA Medical Center, and Hennepin County Medical Center. The program currently trains over 60 graduate students and also offers a dietetic internship for graduate students who wish to become Registered Dietitians. Students and faculty perform research across the entire spectrum of nutrition, from nutrigenomics through applied research, using a variety of scientific methods including in vitro studies, molecular biology, animal experimentation, clinical studies, behavioral and community research, public health nutrition, and epidemiology. Most research performed within the nutrition graduate program is related to diet and human health.
Website: http://fscn.cfans.umn.edu/education/nutritiongraduate/
E-mail Address: sviker@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 624 6753
More Information (cfans_asset_099940.pdf)
Director Mindy Susan Kurzer
Obesity Prevention Center
Last Updated: 12/11/2008
The goals of the Obesity Prevention Center (OPC) are to provide leadership for 1) enhancing local and national visibility of the University of Minnesota's contribution to obesity prevention, 2) capitalizing on multidisciplinary extramural funding opportunities, 3) increasing training and education opportunities for students, community professionals, and the general public, and 4) working with community partners to promote public policies and programs designed to prevent obesity.
Website: http://www.obesityprevention.umn.edu/
E-mail Address: umopc@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 625 6200
More Information (OPC Brochure41.pdf)
Director Robert Jeffery
Office for Business Community and Economic Development
Last Updated: 06/01/2009
The Office for Business & Community Economic Development (OBCED) was created in 1999 to advance the University’s interests in promoting economic development, employment, and training opportunities for historically underserved communities. The mission of OBCED is to contribute to the economic growth and development of Minnesota communities. The OBCED provides a unique opportunity for leveraging the University’s resources, such as intellectual property, technology transfer, and research capabilities.
Website: http://www.bced.umn.edu
E-mail Address: bced@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 624 0530
Director Craig Taylor
Office of Measurement Services and Minnesota Statewide Testing Program
Last Updated: 03/11/2009
The Office of Measurement Services (OMS) is a strategic measurement and assessment consulting office at the University of Minnesota. Specializing in evaluation of both people and programs, OMS is an important provider to the University of Minnesota's past and current research needs. With more than 75 years of experience, OMS has built a reputable expertise in the area of measurement and assessment. With the dynamic combination of reliable business practices and an academic environment, OMS provides comprehensive solutions for each of our client's unique needs. The mission of the Office of Measurement Services (OMS) is to enhance the educational, wellness, and personal development of the University of Minnesota and outside communities by acting as a provider of comprehensive solutions through the application of strategic measurement and assessment. The Minnesota Statewide Testing Program (MSTP) is a non-profit outreach of the University of Minnesota through the Office of Measurement Services. MSTP measures and assesses K-12 student ability and academic growth through the application of different tests. Any K-12 public, private, charter, or home school in the state of Minnesota may access MSTP services
Website: http://oms.umn.edu
E-mail Address: oms@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 626 0006
Address: 103 University Stores South 879 29th Ave. SE ,Minneapolis,MN,55414
Director Thomas Dohm
Oral Health Clinical Research Center
Last Updated: 12/10/2008
The Center supports pilot projects in the areas of materials and restorative sciences, oral facial pain and neuroscience, and caries and periodontal disease. The center develops and applies advanced technology to prevent, diagnose, and treat diseases affecting the oral environment.
Website: http://www1.umn.edu/dental/research/mohcrc.html
Director Bryan Michalowicz
Political Psychology (minor)
Interdisciplinary graduate program
Last Updated: 06/01/2009
The graduate minor has a structured curriculum that provides a foundation in basic areas in Political Psychology: social attitudes and cognition, judgment and decision making, group relations, personality and leadership, mass communication, public opinion, mass political behavior, and political socialization. In addition to providing students with a background in Political Psychology, the program trains them in theory and methods useful to this field. This program is also intended to facilitate interactions among graduate students and faculty involved in research in Political Psychology. The faculty for the program are drawn from numerous programs within the Graduate School, Law School, and Humphrey School.
Website: http://www.polisci.umn.edu/cspp/minor.php
E-mail Address: ppcenter@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 624 0864
Director Joanne Marie Miller
Postsecondary Education Research Institute (PERI)
Last Updated: 04/08/2009
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Website: http://www.education.umn.edu/PERI/default.html
Phone Number: (612) 624 5717
Director Melissa S. Anderson
PREPP Institute for Optimal Medication Use in Rural and Underserved Communities
Last Updated: 06/26/2009
Website: http://www.pharmacy.umn.edu/centers/prepp/
Director Tom Larson
Project on Regional and Industrial Economics
Last Updated: 12/15/2008
PRIE conducts research of planning and public policy interest on the intersection between industries and occupations, on one hand, and regions, cities and communities, on the other. Each project involves a team of faculty and students and disseminates results through scholarly publications, the popular press, and person-to-person outreach to parties directly concerned. PRIE's Arts Economy Initiative conducts major studies on artists and cultural industries, researching the intersection between cultural and urban/regional development policy. Other current projects include The Distinctive City, a book stressing labor and human capital, combining occupational with industrial analysis, and developing guidelines for building distinctive city and regional development portfolios. Past projects include Reining in the Competition for Capital, a critical look at tax incentives as economic development policy; many books and studies of the defense industry and its impacts on local, national, and international levels; Second Tier Cities, a comparative analysis of industrial districts in fast-growing cities in the US, Japan, Brazil, and South Korea; and Trading Industries, Trading Regions, a study of trade-related development across US regions and cities.
Website: http://www.hhh.umn.edu/projects/prie/
Phone Number: (612) 625 8092
Director Ann Markusen
Public and Nonprofit Leadership Center
Last Updated: 12/19/2008
The purpose of the Public and Nonprofit Leadership Center is to enhance the leadership of nonprofits, philanthropy, and the public sector to work together, and with the private sector, to advance the common good and serve the public interest. The Center enjoys a comparative advantage in the strength of its faculty's research capabilities, its ability to link to additional research capacity within the Humphrey Institute and the University, and the Institute's and University's ability to convene high-level decision makers and policymakers for planning and action related to critical issues affecting nonprofits, philanthropy, and the public sector. The Center is unique in the United States in its concentration on all three institutions that serve the public and its focus on furthering understanding of how and when cross-sectoral partnerships are effective mechanisms to solve complex public problems and advance the common good.
Website: http://www.hhh.umn.edu/centers/pnlc/
Director Melissa Stone
Raptor Center
Last Updated: 06/01/2009
The Raptor Center at the University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine specializes in the medical care of, public education about, and conservation of eagles, hawks, owls, and falcons. In addition to treating approximately 800 birds a year, the internationally known program provides training in raptor medicine and surgery for veterinarians and leads the CVM's thrust into Ecosystem Health
Website: http://www.ahc.umn.edu/ahc_content/colleges/vetmed/Depts_and_Centers/Raptor_Center/index.cfm
Phone Number: (612) 624 4745
Address: 1920 Fitch Ave. ,St. Paul,MN,55108
Director Julia Ponder
Regional Sustainable Development Partnerships Program
Last Updated: 12/29/2008
The UMN Regional Partnerships combine citizen leadership with the research and education resources of the University of Minnesota to foster long term sustainability in the Minnesota, with particular attention focusing on agriculture, natural resources, renewable energy, and tourism. The partnership operates under the following three principles: 1. Active Citizenship - Local citizen participation in designing and implementing projects in the region. 2. Sustainable Development - Addressing issues according to sustainable development principles. 3. University of Minnesota Involvement - A rich relationship between the citizens and their University. The citizen-faculty Board of Directors envisions a sustainable future for the state and supports targeted projects to achieve this vision. Funding for the Partnership is provided by the Minnesota Legislature through the University of Minnesota.
Website: http://www.regionalpartnerships.umn.edu
E-mail Address: Draeg001@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 625 3148
Address: 411 Borlaug Hall St Paul ,,MN,55108
Director Kathryn Draeger
Remote Sensing and Geospatial Analysis Laboratory
Last Updated: 12/10/2008
The Laboratory conducts research to develop applications of remote sensing and geospatial technology to inventory and monitor land and water resources in Minnesota.
Website: http://rsl.gis.umn.edu/
Phone Number: (612) 624 3459
Address: 210 Green Hall 1530 Cleveland Avenue North ,St. Paul,MN,55108
Director Marvin Bauer
Research Analytical Lab
Last Updated: 12/10/2008
The Research Analytical Laboratory serves university researchers, government agencies, and other public service groups, providing inorganic chemical analysis for soil, water, feeds, foods, compost, plant or animal tissue, and many other types of materials.
Website: http://ral.cfans.umn.edu/
E-mail Address: ral@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 625 3101
Director Roger Eliason
Research Animal Resources
Last Updated: 12/11/2008
THE MISSION OF RESEARCH ANIMAL RESOURCES IS: - To provide for the care, health and well-being of animals used for research and education at the University of Minnesota; - To administer to the animal related needs of University researchers and educators through dissemination of knowledge and resources; - And to serve the public by ensuring observance of all legal and ethical standards pertaining to the use of animals for research and education at the University of Minnesota.
Website: http://www.ahc.umn.edu/rar
E-mail Address: compmed@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 624 9100
Address: MMC 351 Mayo 420 Delaware ,Minneapolis,MN,55455
Director Cynthia Gillett
Schulze Diabetes Institute
Last Updated: 06/01/2009
Diabetic individuals are our focus for whom and with whom we continue to advance pancreas and islet cell transplantation. We offer ýindividualizedý transplants to adults at all stages of type 1 diabetes, and we seek to achieve insulin independence with the least harmful approach possible. We give high priority to research and education so that successful transplantation may become applicable to children, commonplace, and routine, for children as well as adults.
Website: http://www.surg.umn.edu/diabinst/home.html
Address: MMC 195 420 Delaware St. SE ,Minneapolis,MN,55455
Director David Sutherland
Security in Transportation Technology Research and Applications (SECTTRA)
Last Updated: 02/28/2008
SECTTRA—Security in Transportation Technology Research and Applications—is a joint program of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) and the Center for Transportation Studies (CTS). Its mission is to earn recognition for the University of Minnesota as a world leader in the development and application of technologies for transportation security. The SECTTRA program collaborates with the ITS Institute and the Safety Security Rescue Research Center (SSR-RC), a cooperative inter-university research center that coordinates research with a spectrum of large general homeland security contractors, companies with a specific market share, and start-up companies with key enabling technologies.
Website: http://www.secttra.umn.edu/
Director Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos
Sensory Center
Last Updated: 03/31/2009
The Center provides a full range of sensory evaluation and consumer testing for various products. It also provides consultation related to sensory testing design and statistical data analysis.
Website: http://fscn.cfans.umn.edu/researchandservices/Centers/sensorycenter/
Phone Number: (612) 625 3712
Director Zata Vickers
Silha Center for the Study of Media Ethics and Law
Last Updated: 12/10/2008
The Silha Center is the vanguard of the School`s interest in the ethical responsibilities and legal rights of the mass media in a democratic society. The Center focuses on the concepts and values that define the highest ideals of American journalism: freedom and fairness. It honors the importance of these ideals by examining their theoretical and practical applications and by recognizing the interdependence of ethical and legal principles.
Website: http://www.silha.umn.edu/
E-mail Address: silha@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 625 3421
Director Jane Kirtley
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Last Updated: 02/04/2009
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Software Engineering Center
Last Updated: 12/10/2008
The mission of UMSEC is: Research: Nurture innovative basic and applied research in software engineering and related areas. Education: Educate future generations of software engineering researchers, practitioners, and policy makers in cutting edge software engineering techniques, tools, and business practices. Outreach: Reach out to industry leaders, policy-makers, researchers, educators, and the community-at-large to transfer knowledge as well as better understand and anticipate industry's technical needs.
Website: http://www.umsec.umn.edu/
E-mail Address: msse@cs.umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 625 1381
Address: 4-192 EE/CSci Building 200 Union Street SE ,Minneapolis,MN,55455
Director Mats Heimdahl
Soil Testing Lab
Last Updated: 03/31/2009
The Lab tests materials from: Lawn, Garden and Professional Turf; Farm Field or Horticultural Field; Greenhouse Media; Agricultural Liming Materials; and Soluble Salts.
Website: http://soiltest.cfans.umn.edu/
Director Edward Nater
Southeast Minnesota Regional Sustainable Development Partnership
Last Updated: 12/11/2008
The Regional Sustainable Development Partnerships link rural community priorities and University of Minnesota resources. Three core principles shape our work: • To build and strengthen effective relationships between citizens, communities and their University of Minnesota; • To promote active citizen leadership in strengthening the long-term social, economic and environmental health of greater Minnesota; and • To invest in research, education and outreach projects that advance the understanding and achievement of regional sustainability. The Experiment in Rural Cooperation (ERC) is the Southeast Minnesota Regional Sustainable Development Partnership. ERC works with citizens in SE MN to create and sustain healthy ecosystems, strong local economies and vibrant, self-reliant communities. ERC supports projects that demonstrate public purpose and is committed to building partnerships that connect the citizens of SE MN to local assets and the educational, research and outreach resources of the University of Minnesota.
Website: http://www.regionalpartnerships.umn.edu
E-mail Address: tegtm003@umn.edu
Phone Number: (507) 536 6313
More Information (ERCBrochure.pdf)
Director Meier Erin
Southern Research and Outreach Center
Last Updated: 12/10/2008
Research at the Southern Research and Outreach Center includes the following areas: Agronomy, Dairy and Beef, Farm Operations, Horticulture, Commercial Vegetable Production, Nutraceutical crops, Biohydrogen and biomethane production from animal wastes, Biomass crop production systems for energy and other renewable resourcs, Nematology, Soil Science and Water Quality, Swine, Water Management and Drainage, and Weather Information.
Website: http://sroc.cfans.umn.edu/index.html
Phone Number: (507) 837 5600
Address: 35838 120th Street ,Waseca,MN,56093
Director Forrest Izuno
St. Anthony Falls Lab
Last Updated: 12/10/2008
The lab's mission is threefold: 1) to advance fundamental knowledge in engineering, environmental, geophysical and biological fluid mechanics by conducting cross-cutting research that integrates various disciplines in science and engineering; 2) to benefit society by implementing this knowledge to develop physics-based, affordable, and sustainable engineering solutions to major environmental, water, ecosystem, health, and energy-related problems; and 3) to disseminate new knowledge to our students, the engineering and scientific community and the public by educational and outreach activities and partnerships with the government and industry.
Website: http://www.safl.umn.edu/
E-mail Address: safl@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 624 4363
Director Fotis Sotiropoulos
State and Local Policy Program (SLPP)
Last Updated: 12/12/2008
The State and Local Policy Program (SLPP), which is part of the Regional Planning and Policy Area at the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, conducts research on Transportation and the Community and Economic Development and Human Capital. In the former, research projects focus on understanding the social, economic, and environmental impacts of transportation technology and policy and exploring how new policy models can benefit communities, including congestion pricing and other applications of Intelligent Transportation Systems. In the latter, research focuses on understanding how changes in the global economy affect the economic competitiveness of regions and communities, including economic and income disparities, and how industry clusters relate to knowledge and workforce strategies. SLPP also manages the national Center for Excellence in Rural Safety (CERS) established under the federal surface transportation law, SAFETEA-LU, in 2005.
Website: http://www.hhh.umn.edu/centers/slp/
E-mail Address: lnoble@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 626 0564
Address: 154 HHH Center ,,,
Director Lee Munnich, Jr.
State Health Access Data Assistance Center
Last Updated: 12/10/2008
SHADAC is a leader in facilitating primary health policy research at the state level with an established network of state analysts working on health coverage and access issues across the country. SHADAC`s experts in survey design, sampling, data analysis and health policy specialize in the application of state-level data resources (both national and state-specific data sets) for health policy decisions. SHADAC produces timely and targeted health policy research with a focus on deriving lessons from state variations in policy and outcomes in the national context.
Website: http://www.shadac.org
E-mail Address: shadac@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 624 4802
Director Karen Soderberg
Stem Cell Institute
Last Updated: 12/11/2008
The Stem Cell Institute`s Goals are : 1. To carry out basic research in genetics , developmental biology, cell biology and physiology of stem cells and their differentiated progeny. 2. To assist in the translation of basic research into novel therapies for genetic and degenerative disorders. 3. To apply new stem cell-based therapies in the clinic through already established clinical programs at the University of Minnesota. 4. To advance and disseminate knowledge concerning the biology and physiology of stem cells. 5. To foster and increase public knowledge and awareness of stem cells and their potential clinical applications. 6. To address ethical issues in stem cell biology and therapies.
Website: http://www.stemcell.umn.edu/
E-mail Address: ander607@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 626 4916
Address: McGuire Translational Research Facility 2001 6th Street SE Mail Code 2873 ,Minneapolis,MN,55455
Director Jonathan Slack
Strategic Management Research Center
Last Updated: 03/12/2008
The Strategic Management Research Center is a research center that works closely with the business community in addressing important problems faced by general managers. The Center provides a supportive environment and a framework for the study, generation, and dissemination of knowledge about key strategic management issues to managers, consultants, students, and researchers.
Website: http://www.csom.umn.edu/Page1324.aspx
Director Aks Zaheer
Stream Restoration Science and Engineering
Interdisciplinary graduate program
Last Updated: 06/01/2009
This is a post-bac program lead by Civil Engineering and Geology and Geophysics. A central role in running the program is taken by the NSF STC the National Center for Earth Surface Dynamics. The objective is enable Graduates with the certificate to understand how to blend engineering, physical, biological, and social sciences in order to contribute to the process of prioritizing, designing, implementing, and evaluating stream restoration projects.
Website: http://www.nced.umn.edu/sr_certificate_uofm.html
More Information (SRSE_Program_Handbook.pdf)
Director Vaughan Richard Voller
Technological Leadership Institute (TLI)
Last Updated: 06/22/2009
Established in 1987 with an endowment from Honeywell Foundation, the Technological Leadership Institute (TLI) is a unit within the Institute of Technology, the University of Minnesota's college for engineering, mathematics, and the physical sciences. TLI's expertise is in technological leadership and management: the interface of business, strategy, science, technology, innovation, and policy. Our mission is to be a world-class leader in education, research, and consulting. TLI offers three Master of Science degrees: 1. TLI’s flagship two-year Master of Science in Management of Technology (MOT) was launched in 1990 to help transform working scientists and engineers into executives and leaders of technology-intensive companies. To date, out of the over 500 alumni of the MOT program, over 30% are executives and over 80% are senior managers. 2. TLI offers the Master of Science in Infrastructure Systems Engineering (ISE) in partnership with the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Minnesota, geared toward professionals working in infrastructure systems areas, consulting companies, city managers, construction firms and the Minnesota Department of Transportation (Mn/DOT). 3. TLI's newest degree, a Master of Science in Security Technologies (MSST) with the option of M.S. and Ph.D. minors, begins in summer 2010. The MSST will shape tomorrow’s analytical and risk management policymakers and innovators through a multi-disciplinary graduate program developed in response to growing demand in many levels of industry and government. In addition, TLI works in close partnership with representatives from Minnesota's technology-driven companies to develop its corporate and academic programs. Our short courses are a direct response to the needs of Minnesota's high-tech businesses. Information and skills taught are industry focused with an emphasis on workplace applications. TLI’s skill set includes technology foresight and forecasting, innovation, strategic management of technology, new product and business development, science and technology policy, and intellectual property. With an eye on helping high-tech firms maximize their growth potential, TLI shows high-tech companies how to move more adeptly within the gray zone by exploring ways to • map technology strategies • maximize intellectual property assets • marshal technologies • stimulate innovation • commercialize ideas We take an in-depth, integrated approach that works in the relentless world of high-tech business.
Website: http://www.tli.umn.edu/
E-mail Address: tli@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 624 5747
Address: Suite 510 1300 S. 2nd Street ,Minneapolis,MN,55454
More Information (TLI Mission6-15-09.doc)
Director Massoud Amin
Thompson Center for Environmental Management
Last Updated: 03/31/2009
The Thompson Center for Environmental Management (TCEM) allows the University system to better meet its growing needs for safely treating, processing, and disposing of hazardous waste. Located close to the Twin Cities campus, the TCEM integrates into a single facility all of the University`s hazardous and low-level radioactive waste management operations. It provides a central headquarters for the University`s chemical-spill response team and adds an in-house analytical laboratory, specialized treatment areas, and continuously monitored, secure storage.
Website: http://www.dehs.umn.edu/hazwaste_thompsoncntr.htm
Director Craig Moody
Tissue Mechanics Laboratory
Last Updated: 06/01/2009
The Tissue Mechanics Laboratory provides specialized instruments and methods to characterize the mechanical properties of soft biological materials, provide quantitative loads to living tissues, foster research in these areas, and provide a resource for the university community and industrial partners. Major equipment include a MTS microbionix (for uniaxial testing), a Instron Planar Biaxial (with video strain measurement) coupled with a optical polarization system (for fibril orientation or tissue anisotropy), a NanoindenterXP with custom tips and methods for soft tissues, and a Flexercell. Faculty consultation for design of experiments and data interpretation is also available.
Website: http://www1.umn.edu/bme/html/res_tissuelab.html
E-mail Address: simha@umn.edu
Director Jack Lewis
Tobacco Control Research and Policy Center
Last Updated: 06/01/2009
The overall goal of the TTURC is to stimulate integrated research across scientific disciplines, such as the neurosciences, economics, epidemiology, genetics, behavioral sciences, pharmacology, and medicine in order to significantly advance our understanding of tobacco use, nicotine addiction, and tobacco harm reduction.
Website: http://www.tturc.umn.edu/
E-mail Address: tobaccoresearch@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 627 4900
Address: 106 2701 Univ Mail Stop 2694 2701 University Ave ,Minneapolis,MN,55414
Director Joni Jensen
Tourism Center
Last Updated: 12/10/2008
The Center prepares and supports the tourism industry for success and sustainability. Since 1986, the University of Minnesota Tourism Center has been a source of education and research for Minnesota, the United States, and many countries. The Tourism Center conducts tourism research, provides education and engages the tourism industry, community groups and students. The director and staff are advised by a dynamic and diverse industry advisory committee.
Website: http://www.tourism.umn.edu
E-mail Address: tourism@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 624 4947
More Information (UMNTC_120_BROCHURE (6).pdf)
Director Ingrid Schneider
Toxicology (All-University)
Interdisciplinary graduate program
Last Updated: 12/11/2008
This University-wide program provides comprehensive training in the broad scope of toxicology. Toxicology, the science of poisons, is devoted to identifying and characterizing the risk associated with exposures to potential noxious agents in our environment. Although most chemical agents at sufficiently large doses may be toxic, not all present a significant risk to human health or to environmental organisms or ecosystems. Accordingly, the essence of the science of toxicology is defining the fine line which distinguishes a risk from a residue. To accomplish this requires scientific expertise in such areas as analytical and environmental chemistry, biology, and mathematics. Advanced courses and research are also available in such subdisciplines as human health risk assessment; epidemiology; environmental chemistry and engineering; ecotoxicology; food additive and nutritional toxicology; biochemical and physiological mechanisms; histopathology; diagnostic and analytical toxicology; drug metabolism; chemical carcinogenesis; behavioral toxicology; and the toxicity of noxious agents to various organ systems.
Website: http://www.d.umn.edu/medweb/toxicology/index.htm
E-mail Address: toxgrad@d.umn.edu
Phone Number: (218) 726 6354
Director Kendall Wallace
Tucker Center for Research on Women and Girls in Sport
Last Updated: 06/01/2009
The Tucker Center is dedicated to exploring how sport, recreation and physical activity affect the lives of girls and women. The first of its kind in the country, it is an interdisciplinary research center leading a pioneering effort on significant social and educational issues. The Tucker Center is equally committed to teaching and mentoring students and to community outreach and service.
Website: http://www.tuckercenter.org/
E-mail Address: info@tuckercenter.org
Phone Number: (612) 625 7327
Director Mary Jo Kane
Turfgrass Research, Outreach and Education Center (TROE)
Last Updated: 12/10/2008
The mission of the TROE Center is to develop low input and environmentally responsible turfgrass cultural systems for commercial and residential turfgrass managers across the upper-Midwest.
Website: http://www.turf.umn.edu
Director Brian Horgan
Urban Forestry and Horticulture Research Institute
Last Updated: 06/01/2009
The Urban Forestry & Horticulture Institute was founded to provide teaching, research, and outreach for the benefit of our urban and community forests and managed landscapes. We work closely with municipal foresters and horticulturalists, nursery growers, and green industry professionals to identify and resolve current issues in these fields.
Website: http://www.tre.umn.edu/
Director Jeff Gillman
Veterinary Clinical Investigation Center
Last Updated: 12/10/2008
The center`s goals are to aid in identifying, securing and managing veterinary clinical research projects; to maintain a database of clinical trials/resources; to assist sponsors in evaluating products for safety and efficacy; to coordinate a pool of expert faculty and staff to support clinical trials; and to facilitate compliance with regulatory agencies and sponsors.
Website: http://www.cvm.umn.edu/cic/
E-mail Address: vcic@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 624 2485
Address: 1365 Gortner Avenue Room 426 Veterinary Teaching Hospital ,St. Paul,MN,55108
More Information (CIC Industry brochure final.pdf)
Director Bert Stromberg
Water Resources Center
Last Updated: 12/16/2008
Water Resources Center research encompasses several major topics: agriculture and water quality; lakes and rivers; safe drinking water; wastewater; and watershed management. Students can study in the graduate program in Water Resources Science
Website: http://wrc.umn.edu
E-mail Address: umwrc@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 624 9282
Director Jim Anderson
Water Resources Science (All-University)
Interdisciplinary graduate program
Last Updated: 12/12/2008
The Graduate Program in Water Resources Science (WRS) is a unique, multi-disciplinary approach to water-resources education. Our program trains students in a holistic manner to prepare them for complex problems in managing and researching aquatic systems. Through excellent research and classroom opportunities on both the Twin Cities and Duluth campuses and faculty from 25 departments, WRS students develop the breadth of scientific knowledge needed to understand the complicated aquatic ecosystems and watersheds on which they will work.
Website: http://wrs.umn.edu/
E-mail Address: wrs@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 624 9282
Director Raymond Newman
Weisman Art Museum
Last Updated: 12/10/2008
The Weisman Art Museum is an active center for displaying artwork and for live performances, lectures, and other cultural activities. Housed in a striking stainless steel and brick building designed by architect Frank Gehry, the Weisman Art Museum offers an educational and friendly museum experience. The museum's collection features early 20th century American artists such as Georgia O'Keeffe and Marsden Hartley, as well as a diverse selection of contemporary art. A teaching museum for the University of Minnesota and the community, the Weisman provides a fresh, engaging arts experience through an array of programs and a changing schedule of exhibitions.
Website: http://www.weisman.umn.edu/
E-mail Address: wamdir@umn.edu
Phone Number: (612) 625 9494
Director Lyndel King
West Central Minnesota Regional Sustainable Development Partnership
Last Updated: 12/17/2008
The West Central Minnesota Regional Sustainable Development Partnership is one of five Regional Partnerships that is a citizen led program of the University of Minnesota to enhance the social, economic and environmental well-being of the region through research, education and outreach programming.
Website: http://www.regionalpartnerships.umn.edu
Phone Number: (320) 760 3735
More Information (AnnlRepot0908.pdf)
Director Dorothy Rosemeier
West Central Research and Outreach Center
Last Updated: 12/11/2008
The WCROC program performs research in the following areas: Agronomy, Soils and Water Quality; Dairy Production Systems and Pasture Grazing Management; Environmental Horticulture and Display Garden Materials; Irrigation Water Management; Swine Nutrition and Alternative Housing Systems;and Wind and Biomass Renewable Energy systems.
Website: http://wcroc.cfans.umn.edu/
Phone Number: (320) 589 1711
Director Jerry Wright
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