The professor in the Medical School and principal scientist at the Masonic Institute for the Developing Brain shares why nature is so important for kids and how to ensure kids benefit from nature-based learning year-round.
Watch the University's Minnesota Sea Grant host a unique immersion experience that empowers educators to bring authentic Great Lakes research and stewardship back to their communities.
A 1-megawatt, 6-megawatt-hour non-lithium battery will be installed on campus, intentionally placed where students, visitors and community members will be able to see the technology firsthand.
Sixteen faculty members have been selected for the year-long initiative providing deep pedagogical support and co-design time necessary to integrate career-ready, community-engaged learning into the curriculum.
Need to Know
- Faculty: Fill out the Course Works Request Form to ensure your students have all their fall semester course materials.
- Twin Cities: Participate in the Maroon & Gold Launch on September 4 at 10:30 a.m. Pick up your free cowbell at Gateway Plaza to cheer on incoming students as they take a symbolic first step into the University community.
- Check out all the places you can visit the University on our State Fair website.
Feature Highlights
Dig in to the garden with these tips from Extension.
The school is poised to address the troubling trend through educational and clinical partnerships, innovative education and more.
Tim Gieseke, Extension educator, has been developing the MN Drainage Program to convene stakeholders and build their shared real-world knowledge, which could influence decision-making around adoption and management.
Awards and Recognition Spotlights
Sixteen faculty members have been selected for the year-long initiative providing deep pedagogical support and co-design time necessary to integrate career-ready, community-engaged learning into the curriculum.
The College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences professor and Chief Science Officer of Jord BioScience released a first-of-its-kind soil biostimulant and received the AgTech Breakthrough Award a week after commercial launch.
The University of Minnesota Crookston traces its roots back to the Northwest School of Agriculture, which was established in what year?
1889
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1902
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1906
Correct! Learn more about the University's 175-year history.
What do you love most about your job?
"I love being part of a team that has transformed the polar regions from some of the least mapped places on Earth to the most mapped, enabling more efficient and diverse science."
Cathleen Torres Parisian
Engagement Lead for Polar Geospatial Center, Twin Cities campus
University of Minnesota in the News
- The Minnesota Star Tribune