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ACRC/Dorsey Corporate Center
Last Updated: 06/03/2008
A beautiful meeting space for ACRC clients and associates. This office is fully furnished with a computer, phone with international long distance, conference table, white board and many other amenities (color printer, scanner, copier, fax) located throughout the building.
Website: http://www.business.umn.edu
Director Dick Sommerstad
Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory
Last Updated: 08/04/2008
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/
Director Thomas Stoffregen
AHC Research Computing Services
Last Updated: 08/04/2008
AHC Research Computing Services supports the unique research computing needs of organizations within the Academic Health Center with hosted servers and professional IT staff. AHC-RCS works in cooperation with the University of Minnesota's Office of Information Technology.
Website: http://computing.ahc.umn.edu
Director John Crow
Airport Technical Assistance Program (AirTAP)
Last Updated: 11/14/2007
AirTAP is a statewide assistance program for aviation personnel that offers education and information resources, training programs, technical assistance, access to experts, and printed materials. AirTAP was created by the: * Center for Transportation Studies * Local Technical Assistance Program * Minnesota Department of Transportation * Minnesota Council of Airports
Website: http://www.airtap.umn.edu/
Director Jim Grothaus
Ambulatory Research Center
Last Updated: 06/18/2007
Director Charles Schulz
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
Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center for Transposon Research
Last Updated: 07/09/2008
Transposon technology has the potential to dramatically impact basic vertebrate biological and clinical research and practice. The Center works to further the development and the dissemination of new transposon-based biological tools for the widest benefit of these tools in the innumerable range of applications of these new genetic vehicles.
Website: http://beckmancenter.ahc.umn.edu/
Director Stephen Ekker
Aurora Center for Advocacy and Education
Last Updated: 06/04/2007
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://www1.umn.edu/aurora
More Information (service delivery model.doc)
Director Roberta Gibbons
Basic Research Center on Molecular and Cell Biology of Drug Addiction
Last Updated: 06/11/2008
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 ýactivity centerý 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
Director Horace Loh
Bell Museum of Natural History
Last Updated: 10/19/2007
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
More Information (About the Bell Museum.doc)
Director Scott Lanyon
Biodale - Biotech Research Services
Last Updated: 10/06/2008
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/
Director Marc von Keitz
Bioinformatics Summer Institute
Last Updated: 03/04/2008
Website: http://www.bsi.umn.edu
Director Yiannis Kaznessis
Biomedical Engineering Institute
Last Updated: 05/08/2007
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.bmei.umn.edu/
Director Jeffrey McCullough
BioMedical Genomics Center
Last Updated: 07/31/2008
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/
Director Vivek Kapur
Biomedical Image Processing Laboratory (BIPL)
Last Updated: 06/18/2007
BIPL is a complete light microscopy, image acquisition, image output, image analysis and genomics/proteomics facility. BIPL provides services including Microscopy Stations, Confocals, Molecular Biology services, Genomics services, Scanning, Digital Photography, and Video Editing.
Website: http://www.bipl.umn.edu/
Director Gerald Sedgewick
Biotechnology Institute
Last Updated: 06/22/2007
xThe mission of the Biotechnology Institute is to educate and train advanced students and to conduct inter-disciplinary research in the biological and physical sciences and engineering.The Institute provides access to a wide range of state -of -the-art resources for the development of biotechnology applications. The Biotechnology Institute is committed to international leadership in education and research.
Website: http://www.bti.umn.edu
Director Kenneth Valentas
Bob Allison Ataxia Research Center
Last Updated: 11/06/2007
The Ataxia Clinic at the University of Minnesota is devoted to the diagnosis and management of patients with various forms of ataxia. The current patient base is clinically diverse and sizable which allows researchers to explore patterns and to conduct specific studies of kindreds with different forms of hereditary ataxias.
Website: http://www.mmf.umn.edu/ataxia/default.htm
Director David Anderson
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
Director Ann Rougvie
Cancer Center
Last Updated: 08/20/2008
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/
Director Douglas Yee, M.D.
Career and Community Learning Center
Last Updated: 11/15/2007
The Career and Community Learning Center (CCLC) is housed in two offices and provides many programs and services. Its 345 Fraser office serves all students on the U of M Twin Cities campus. It advises students about volunteer opportunities in the Twin Cities, works with all colleges and faculty to develop service-learning classes, and coordinates two off-campus study programs, National Student Exchange and HECUA. CCLCs 135 Johnston Hall office is the CLA Career Services office, dedicated to helping CLA students explore majors, careers, grad schools, and job-search strategies. CCLCs Johnston Hall office is also the pre-law advising office for all students on the Twin Cities campus. Both offices provide a resource-rich library in which students can browse on their own or get individual assistance.
Website: http://www.cclc.umn.edu/
Director Carl Brandt
Career and Lifework Center
Last Updated: 06/18/2007
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 doesn`t need to be an alumni of the University of Minnesota to use the services.
Website: http://www.lifework.umn.edu/
Director Janet Pelto
Carlson Ventures Enterprise
Last Updated: 08/05/2008
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
Director Gary Smaby
Cedar Creek Natural History Area
Last Updated: 05/30/2007
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/
Director David Tilman
Center for 4-H Youth Development
Last Updated: 11/06/2007
4-H encourages kids to better themselves and their surroundings through service-learning projects. Stretching kids to their full potential, 4-H helps youth to find their gifts and ambitions and to improve the world.
Website: http://www.fourh.umn.edu/
Director Dale Blyth
Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition
Last Updated: 06/11/2007
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
Director Elaine Tarone
Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare
Last Updated: 07/13/2007
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://ssw.che.umn.edu/Connections/CASCW.html
Director Heidi Wagner
Center for Allied Health Programs
Last Updated: 08/07/2007
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
Director Charles Christiansen
Center for Animal Health and Food Safety
Last Updated: 06/04/2007
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/
Director William Hueston
Center for Applied Research and Educational Improvement
Last Updated: 02/28/2008
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 Austrian Studies
Last Updated: 10/17/2007
The Center: --serves as a focal point in North America for the study of Austria and Central European lands with a common Habsburg heritage across disciplines in the humanities, the social sciences, the applied sciences, and the fine arts; --analyzes Austrian perspectives as a powerful tool for understanding new developments in post-cold war Europe; --connects scholars, students, and an international community to resources in Austria, Central Europe, and Minnesota. The Center pursues its mission through a variety of activities that promote research, education, and training in the field and by serving as an international clearinghouse for information and scholarship.
Website: http://www.cas.umn.edu/
Director Gary Cohen
Center for Biodegradation Research and Informatics
Last Updated: 05/23/2007
CBRI was formed to promote studies on the microbiological transformation of chemical compounds in natural and engineered environments.
Website: http://umbbd.msi.umn.edu/aboutBBD.html
Director Larry Wackett
Center for Bioethics
Last Updated: 05/08/2007
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/
Director Jeffrey Kahn
Center for Biomedical Research Informatics
Last Updated: 10/17/2007
The Center for Biomedical Research Informatics, part of the Academic Health Center's research IT infrastructure, develops information systems and operates a number of bioinformatics resources supporting research in the life and health sciences. We work in the areas of applied informatics, emerging information technologies, and analytics with the goal of improving the way life and health sciences research is done.
Website: http://cbri.umn.edu
Director John Crow
Center for Cell and Molecular Biology
Last Updated: 06/12/2007
Director Matthew Andrews
Center for Cognitive Sciences
Last Updated: 07/13/2007
The Center for Cognitive Sciences receives strong support from the University of Minnesota and its constituent departments and colleges. Currently, the Center draws faculty and students from sixteen departments and programs across five 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.
Website: http://www.cogsci.umn.edu
Director Apostolos Georgopoulos
Center for Compact and Efficient Fluid Power
Last Updated: 05/08/2007
Director Kim Stelson
Center for Dairy Health, Management, and Food Quality
Last Updated: 10/16/2007
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: 07/02/2007
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 Devlpment of Technological Leadership (CDTL)
Last Updated: 06/23/2008
CDTL was established in 1987 at the University of Minnesota with an endowment from Honeywell Foundation, to develop leadership for fast-tracked and working professionals at all corporate levels. CDTL bridges across the colleges at the University to bring world-class faculty from the Institute of Technology, Carlson School of Management, Humphrey Institute, Law School, and company executives to provide educational, research, and consulting opportunities in the areas of technology, business, innovation, leadership and management. CDTL’s flagship two-year Master of Science in Management of Technology (MOT) was launched seventeen years ago 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 28% are executives and over 80% are senior managers. In addition, CDTL offers 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). In addition, CDTL 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. CDTL’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, CDTL 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.cdtl.umn.edu/
More Information (CDTL_overview_June 2008.pdf)
Director Massoud Amin
Center for Diesel Research
Last Updated: 06/01/2007
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/
Director Darrick Zarling
Center for Early Education and Development
Last Updated: 12/05/2007
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/
Director Richard Weinberg
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
Director William Phillips, Jr.
Center for Economic Development (U of Mn Duluth)
Last Updated: 06/18/2007
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: 03/06/2008
The mission of 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: 1. Sponsor educational activities that address critical issues affecting the mental health and well-being of children and youth. 2. Create university-community research partnerships that provide new knowledge about the treatment and prevention of mental illness. 3. 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
Director Joel Hetler
Center for Excellence in Critical Care
Last Updated: 06/22/2007
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
Last Updated: 02/28/2008
The Center for Excellence in Rural Safety 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/
Director Lee Munnich
Center for Farm Financial Management
Last Updated: 09/02/2007
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/Default.asp
Director R H Craven
Center for Forecasting Drug Response
Last Updated: 05/10/2007
The cost of sub-optimal or inappropriate drug dosing costs the United States population countless thousands of dollars every year; however, it is an area seldom considered in research design. The advent of genomics, the capabilities of new technologies and the developing expertise in clinical pharmacology, pharmacokinetics, biopharmaceutics and pharmacogenomics increases the ability to predict patient drug response and to make tailor patient-specific drug dosing a reality. The mission of the Center is to foster the development and evaluation of biomedical models that predict drug response, and to provide personnel and required facilities to support the forecasting activities undertaken by others.
Director Angela Birnbaum
Center for Gerontological Nursing
Last Updated: 05/30/2007
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
Director Jean Wyman
Center for Hardwood Ecology
Last Updated: 05/09/2007
The center`s goal is to locate, protect, and study a very rare ecosystem: old-growth hardwood forests in the Midwest and eastern U.S., to use the knowledge gained from old-growth ecosystems to restore second growth forests and forests that have been converted to other uses, and to bridge the gaps between science, conservation, and management in hardwood forests
Website: http://www.cnr.umn.edu/FR/CFHE/index.html
Director Lee Frelich
Center for Health Interprofessional Programs
Last Updated: 10/17/2007
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 in the Carlson School of Management.
Website: http://www.chip.umn.edu/
Director Gina Kundan
Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Last Updated: 10/16/2007
The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies focuses on more than Nazi Germany`s war against the Jews. It also provides information and sources about more recent acts of genocide, which have taken place in the twentieth century. Utilizing resources of the University of Minnesota and other experts in local colleges, the Center creates a body of expertise upon which to draw that will deal with a range of questions related to genocide
Website: http://www.chgs.umn.edu/
Director Stephen Feinstein
Center for Immunology
Last Updated: 10/17/2007
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/
Director Matthew Mescher
Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP)
Last Updated: 03/04/2008
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/
Director Michael Osterholm
Center for Integrated Natural Resources and Agricultural Management
Last Updated: 10/16/2007
CINRAM is a partner-based organization that catalyzes the development and adoption of integrated land use systems. CINRAM links the expertise of the Univ. of Minnesota with the experience and insights of people and organization who work with and have understanding of, opportunities and issues across the landscape
Website: http://cinram.umn.edu
More Information (CINRAM - Mission.ppt)
Director Dean Current
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
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Center for Interdisciplinary Applications in Magnetic Resonance
Last Updated: 10/25/2007
Research includes: MR-PET Scanner Development, MR Compatability of Medical Devices, MR Analysis of Bioreactor Structure and Function, Tissue Engineering, and Micro NMR Coils
Website: http://www.ciamr.umn.edu/
Director Bruce Hammer
Center for Interest Measurement Research
Last Updated: 07/24/2007
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 Jewish Studies
Last Updated: 11/06/2007
The Center for Jewish Studies concerns itself with the academic study of the historical, cultural, linguistic, ethnic, geographic, and religious diversity of the full range of peoples who identify themselves as Jewish.
Website: http://jwst.cla.umn.edu/
Director Leslie Morris
Center for Labor Policy
Last Updated: 05/15/2007
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: 10/16/2007
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/
Director Wendy Hellerstedt
Center for Learning Innovation (CLI)
Last Updated: 03/30/2008
The University of Minnesota Rochester (UMR) Center for Learning Innovation (CLI) is responsible for developing new undergraduate curricula for new bachelor degree programs in the health sciences at UMR. CLI will be the academic home of UMR faculty responsible for performing research and developing and implementing new learner-centered, competency-based curriculum with build-in assessment capability that will monitor and measure student progress towards learning outcomes. CLI will promote 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 will serve as a laboratory for learning and lead the development of an integrated curriculum for baccalaureate degrees in the health sciences at UMR. CLI aspires to become a national leader in developing new interdisciplinary undergraduate programs in the health sciences incorporating learner-centered science that enhances student learning.
Director Claudia Neuhauser
Center for Lung Science and Health
Last Updated: 03/11/2008
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's Executive Director, David Ingbar, M.D., is also the Division Director of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, as well as the American Thoracic Society (ATS) President (2007-2008). 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, and lung health (e.g. environmental lung health, tobacco cessation, and complementary care).
Website: http://www.lung.umn.edu
More Information (CLSH Programs 07_flyer_final.pdf)
Director Marshall Hertz, M.D.
Center for Magnetic Resonance Research
Last Updated: 05/17/2007
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/
Director Kamil Ugurbil
Center for Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics
Last Updated: 10/16/2007
The Center for Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics (MSP) provides nearly all of the modern technology for proteomic research via mass spectrometry and gel electrophoresis with additional major resources for analysis of small molecule mass spectrometry in biological samples. 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 190 individual investigators in 2006 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/
Director Gary Nelsestuen
Center for Medieval Studies
Last Updated: 05/31/2007
The Center edits scholarly books and journals, offers minors and courses at the graduate and undergraduate levels, organizes formal colloquia, informal workshops, and conferences around specific themes, facilitates graduate and undergraduate student groups, seeks internal and external funding for program development and faculty and student research projects, provides an opportunity for scholars of all disciplines and at all levels to focus intensively on historical, literary, anthropological, social, economic, religious, artistic, cultural, and methodological inquiries into the medieval period (ca 300-1500 C.E.), and collaborates with other institutions including the Institute for Advanced Study, the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library, and the Newberry Library in undertakings such as the Minnesota Manuscript Research Laboratory, the Mappi Mundi Project, and the Global Middle Ages Project.
Website: http://www.cmedst.umn.edu/
Director Susan Noakes
Center for Metals in Biocatalysis
Last Updated: 10/16/2007
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.
Director Lawrence Que, Jr.
Center for Micromagnetics and Information Technologies
Last Updated: 05/09/2007
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/
Director Victora Randall
Center for Minimally Invasive Surgery
Last Updated: 05/13/2007
Many surgical procedures (including hernia repair, spenectomy, lysis of adhesions, small bowel resection, and adrenalectomy) can be performed by mininally invasive surgical techniques, and are now routine at the Center. The focus of the efforts are in the following areas: Thoracic and Foregut Surgery, Obesity Surgery, Colon and Rectal Surgery, Abdominal Surgery, Urologic Surgery, Cardiac Surgery, Transplantation, Gynecology, Neurosurgery, Orthopedic Surgery, and Otorhinolaryngology.
Website: http://www.mis.umn.edu/
Director Michael Maddaus
Center for Nanostructure Applications (CNA)
Last Updated: 05/16/2008
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/
Director Stephen Campbell
Center for Neurobehavioral Development (CNBD)
Last Updated: 06/04/2007
The Center for Neurobehavioral Development is a research center that houses over a dozen 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://www1.umn.edu/cnbd/index.htm
More Information (CNBD%20Annual%20Report%202005-2006.pdf)
Director Michael Georgieff
Center for Orphan Drug Research
Last Updated: 10/18/2007
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.
Director James Cloyd
Center for Restorative Justice and Peacemaking
Last Updated: 07/13/2007
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://ssw.che.umn.edu/Connections/RJP.html
Director Mark Umbreit
Center for Rural Design
Last Updated: 07/08/2008
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.coafes.umn.edu/
Director Duane Thorbeck
Center for School Change
Last Updated: 05/11/2007
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
Director Joe Nathan
Center for Science, Technology, and Public Policy
Last Updated: 07/02/2007
The Center for Science, Technology, and Public Policy fosters understanding of the role of science and technology in our society, particularly relationships to economic growth, health, energy, the environment, education, and national security. It examines the effects of science and technology on society and on the political and economic relationships among nations.
Website: http://www.hhh.umn.edu/centers/stpp/
Director Stephen Kelley
Center for Small Towns
Last Updated: 11/30/2007
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
Director David Fluegel
Center for Spirituality & Healing
Last Updated: 04/14/2008
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/
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Director Mary Jo Kreitzer
Center for Sustainable Building Research
Last Updated: 05/09/2007
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/
Director John Carmody
Center for the Study of Politics
Last Updated: 07/02/2007
Faculty and fellows at the Humphrey Institute conduct research on public policy issues and engage in outreach efforts that have regional, national, and international significance. The Institute`s public policy research and outreach centers serve as focal points for discussion, direction, and dissemination of information on public policy questions.
Website: http://www.hhh.umn.edu/centers/csp/
Director Lawrence Jacobs
Center for the Study of the Individual and Society
Last Updated: 11/06/2007
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/
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Director Mark Snyder
Center for Transportation Studies
Last Updated: 10/16/2007
CTS addresses the need for closer cooperation between University faculty and state and federal departments of transportation, and strengthens the University's role in transportation research, outreach, and education.
Website: http://www.cts.umn.edu/
Director Bob Johns
Center for Urban and Regional Affairs
Last Updated: 07/03/2007
CURA is an all-University applied research and technology center that connects faculty and students with community organizations, ethnic and racial minority groups, businesses, rural towns, inner-city neighborhoods, suburban communities, local governments, and public institutions in Minnesota. CURA focuses on urban-related issues of public policy relevant to Minnesota
Website: http://www.cura.umn.edu/
Director Thomas Scott
Center for Violence Prevention and Control
Last Updated: 10/17/2007
The purpose of the CVPC is to generate knowledge through research in violence prevention and control, to disseminate this knowledge to use as the basis for development of prevention and control efforts, and to provide a comprehensive violence prevention and control graduate education curriculum.
Website: http://www1.umn.edu/cvpc/
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Director Susan Goodwin Gerberich
Center for Youth Health Promotion
Last Updated: 11/06/2007
The emphasis of the CYHP is the identification and promotion of effective, ethnically diverse youth health promotion "action" research programs. Research includes evidence-based programs evaluated in large-scale community trials. and examinations of the effectiveness of new intervention strategies to promote healthful behavior among young people, and included eating, physical activity, and tobacco, alcohol, and drug use.
Website: http://www.epi.umn.edu/cyhp/
Director Cheryl Perry
Center on Aging
Last Updated: 10/17/2007
The Minnesota Area Geriatric Education Center (MAGEC) provides educational and innovative programs on a regional and local basis through partnerships with institutions and organizations involved in aging. An integral part of promoting education is the design and expansion of curricular offerings in geriatrics and gerontology. Additionally, MAGEC works to strengthen clinicians' skills and knowledge in geriatrics.
Website: http://www.hsr.umn.edu/coa/
Director Robert Kane
Center to Study Human-Animal Relationships and Environments
Last Updated: 02/11/2008
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://censhare.umn.edu
Director Dr. Robert K. Anderson
Centers for Public Health Education and Outreach
Last Updated: 05/16/2007
The Center serves as an intersection between the University of Minnesota School of Public Health and the community, and provides an on-going presence and infrastructure to support education for public health professionals throughout the region. The goal of the Center is to work with the community and the faculty of the SPH to help develop and strengthen the public health workforce and prepare for future public health challenges through education.
Website: http://cpheo.sph.umn.edu/
Director Debra Olson
Cereal Disease Lab
Last Updated: 10/17/2007
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
Director Marty Carson
Charles Babbage Institute - Center for the History of Information Technology
Last Updated: 05/08/2007
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, conducts and fosters research in history and archival methods, offers graduate fellowships, and sponsors symposia, conferences, and publications.
Website: http://www.cbi.umn.edu/
Director Thomas Misa
Chemical Physics
Interdisciplinary graduate program
Last Updated: 05/26/2007
This is an interdisciplinary graduate program that offers educational and training opportunities not available in chemistry or physics. Faculty members participating in the Chemical Physics Graduate Program come from various departments in the Institute of Technolgy, the College of Biological Sciences, and the Medical School.
Website: http://www.chem.umn.edu/chemphys/
Director Ilja Siepmann
Children, Youth, and Families Consortium
Last Updated: 05/25/2007
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, influence policy and enhance practice to improve the well-being of Minnesota’s children, youth and families. Core Functions 1. Build Networks - CYFC connects people within the University, within the community, and between the University and the community with each other and with resources to enhance their mutual work. 2. Build Bridges - CYFC engages people across professional, intellectual and disciplinary boundaries in creating partnerships and initiatives that embrace creative visioning, critical thinking, and big picture planning that will benefit children, youth and families in Minnesota. 3. Communicate– CYFC is a credible source of information about University work and evidence-based information about children, youth and family issues.
Website: http://cyfc.umn.edu
Director Catherine Jordan
China Center Office of International Programs U of MN
Last Updated: 02/28/2008
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/
Director Joan Brzezinski
Clinical Outcomes Research Center
Last Updated: 11/06/2007
CORC offers an opportunity for clinical research faculty to develop projects that address the outcomes of care. It is intended to generate sound information that relates the variations in the way health care is delivered to the outcomes of that care. It can become the basis for a model outcomes information system that will position the new entity as a modern health care activity. At the same time, it can also serve as a platform to improve the quality of care and to teach students at various levels clinical research techniques and how to assess the quality of evidence that supports medical decisions.
Website: http://www.hsr.umn.edu/corc/
Director Marc Swiontkowski
Cloquet Forestry Center
Last Updated: 05/08/2007
The 3400 acre Cloquet Forestry Center is the Universitys' primary research and education forest. The Center Provides opportunity for forest/field based course work, interdisciplinary Long-term and controlled studies that benefit Minnesota`s 17 million acres of commercial forest land. The Center`s research is designed to improve the management and utilization of Minnesota`s timber, recreation, wildlife, soil, and water resources on forested lands.
Website: http://www.cfc.cfans.umn.edu
Director Ron Severs
College Readiness Consortium
Last Updated: 02/28/2008
The College Readiness Consortium (formely the Consortium for Post-secondary Academic Success) was created in July 2006 to build and broaden the pipeline to higher education across Minnesota. In its first year of operation, the consortium led the University’s successful launch of the new Minnesota Principals Academy, an executive development program that helps school leaders across the state create and sustain high-performing schools that put every student on the path to postsecondary success. Another result of the consortium’s early work is the Minnesota Postsecondary Plan, which guides junior and senior high school students through a series of milestones that prepare them for the academic, intellectual, and social challenges of higher education. The Consortium also coordinates the University’s participation in the Minnesota P-16 Partnership, which brings together leaders of the state’s higher education community, K-12 organizations and associations, governmental agencies, nonprofits, and business organizations to create a seamless educational system that begins in early childhood and extends to the completion of postsecondary education.
Website: http://www.academic.umn.edu/system/prek12/index.html
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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/
Director Gina Baas
Community-University Health Care Center
Last Updated: 05/18/2007
Provider health care services to low income people experiencing health disparities. Training health science student in cross cultural and interdisciplinary care.
Website: http://www.ahc.umn.edu/CUHCC
Director Deanna Mills
Comparative and Molecular Biosciences
Interdisciplinary graduate program
Last Updated: 05/08/2007
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
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Director Bruce Kenneth Walcheck
Conservation Biology
Interdisciplinary graduate program
Last Updated: 05/09/2007
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://conservation
Director Susan M. Galatowitsch
Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment, and the Life Sciences
Last Updated: 02/28/2008
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
Director Susan Wolf
Control Science and Dynamic Systems Center
Interdisciplinary graduate program
Last Updated: 05/18/2007
Research includes: numerical computation, robust control, nonlinear control, linear and nonlinear dynamical systems,and image processing.
Website: http://www.csdy.umn.edu/
Director Gary Balas
Cooperative Learning Center
Last Updated: 07/13/2007
Cooperative Learning is a relationship in a group of students that requires positive interdependence (a sense of sink or swim together), individual accountability (each of us has to contribute and learn), interpersonal skills (communication, trust, leadership, decision making, and conflict resolution), face-to-face promotive interaction, and processing (reflecting on how well the team is functioning and how to function even better).
Website: http://www.co-operation.org/
Director Roger Johnson
Densford International Center for Nursing Leadership
Last Updated: 06/01/2007
Through a series of programs, services and forums, the Densford Center equips nurses with knowledge, skills, context and connections to improve health and health care internationally.
Website: http://nursing.umn.edu/densford
Director Joanne Disch
Design Institute
Last Updated: 10/16/2007
As the University of Minnesota's think tank on design futures, the Design Institute takes the long view, exploring the changing contours of design in the networked information economy, and their implications both for design teaching and practice, and for everyday life. DI research is concentrated in two thematic areas: innovations in design education, and mapping as a strategy for understanding the complex interrelationship of space, data and social organization. The DI pursues its research through educational programs, fellowships, symposia, and interdisciplinary partnerships; its audiences and program participants range from teenagers who are just encountering design, to senior design practitioners and educators. The DI maintains an active publishing program which has yielded numerous print and online publications, including the international best-selling book "ELSE/WHERE: MAPPING — New Cartographies of Networks and Territories" (DI, 2006).
Website: http://di.design.umn.edu/
Director Janet Abrams
Development Studies and Social Change
Interdisciplinary graduate program
Last Updated: 06/08/2007
The free-standing Ph.D. minor in Development Studies and Social Change (DSSC) offers a structured, interdisciplinary program focusing on social bases of change in the global south. The program engages academic disciplines in the social sciences, humanities, and biological sciences with a focus on: 1) relationships between macroscopic processes of political, economic, environmental, cultural and social change, and microscopic conditions of lived experience in the global south; 2) interdisciplinary perspectives on this theme; and 3) preparation of doctoral students for research in the global south. The Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change (ICGC), with approximately 110 graduate students and 60 DSSC Graduate Faculty members, houses the minor. These scholars share an interest in connections between broader processes of change in the global south and lived experiences of individuals and communities. The minor program provides high-quality core courses that emphasize theory, methods, and key issues and enhance interdisciplinary research.
Website: http://www.ICGC.umn.edu
Director Raymond D. Duvall
Developmental Biology Center
Last Updated: 03/04/2008
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/
Director Scott Selleck
Diabetes Institute for Immunology and Transplantation
Last Updated: 10/17/2007
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.diabetesinstitute.org/
Director David Sutherland
Digital Media Center
Last Updated: 05/25/2007
The Digital Media Center (DMC) is a unit of the Office of Information Technology (OIT) on the Twin Cities campus of the University of Minnesota. Our purpose is to advance life-long learning opportunities for all members of the University community by promoting a scholarly approach to the design and implementation of technology rich learning environments and by providing evidence-based educational technology development opportunities and support to University of Minnesota faculty and staff members.
Website: http://dmc.umn.edu/
Director Linda Jorn
Digital Technology Center
Last Updated: 03/20/2008
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/index.html
Director Micheal Olesen
Division of Adolescent Health and Medicine
Last Updated: 05/08/2007
The Center provides interdisciplinary research, training, and clinical services collaborating with the disciplines of medicine, nursing, nutrition, psychology, public health and social work.
Website: http://allaboutkids.umn.edu/
Director Deb Seyfer
Drug Delivery Center
Last Updated: 06/10/2007
During the first three years, we have focused on the development of delivery systems for three important classes of therapeutic agents for the treatment of AIDS, stroke and pain. In each of these three cases, the expertise of the combined team of physical and biological scientists in a unique structure will take each new therapeutic agent from the bench to the clinic. The synergy of this team will leverage our funds to obtain additional external funding for graduate education. This synergy will also increase our proven ability to educate scientists for biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies in Minnesota and the nation, and to increase the interaction of the University with its corporate constituents.
Website: http://www.pharmacy.umn.edu/centers/ddc/
Director Raj Suryanarayanan
Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior
Interdisciplinary graduate program
Last Updated: 05/11/2007
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/
Director Andrew M. Simons
Epilepsy Research and Education Center
Last Updated: 10/18/2007
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/
Director Ilo Leppik
Executive Education Center
Last Updated: 10/16/2007
Executive Education
Website: http://www.csom.umn.edu
Director Jacqueline Anderson
Experimental Surgery Services
Last Updated: 11/16/2007
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 25 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
More Information (ESSposter2007_4C.pdf)
Director Richard Bianco
Fine Theoretical Physics Institute
Last Updated: 10/22/2007
Research topics include biophysics, condensed matter, cosmology, and high energy physics.
Website: http://www.ftpi.umn.edu/
Director Mikhail Voloshin
Food Industry Center
Last Updated: 10/18/2007
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
Director Jean Kinsey
Freeman Center for International Economic Policy
Last Updated: 07/23/2007
Research includes: Sponsoring leading edge research on emerging problems of the global economy, providing a recognized forum where researchers and others doing research on international policy issues can share ideas, serving as an all-University catalyst and clearinghouse for education on global policy issues, and partnering with public and private organizations to translate research results into concise information and public educational opportunities for citizens in Minnesota and the region on the implications of global economic interdependence.
Website: http://www.hhh.umn.edu/centers/freeman/
Director Robert Kudrle
Gary S. Holmes Center for Entrepreneurship (Holmes Center)
Last Updated: 03/12/2008
In addition to fostering relationships between students, faculty, and the business community, the Gary S. Holmes Center for Entrepreneurship coordinates entrepreneurial research, teaching, and outreach services. Research focuses on topics such as business formation, entrepreneurship and innovation, venture capital, technology-based start-ups, international entrepreneurship, and the creation of value in ventures.
Website: http://www.csom.umn.edu/entrepreneurship
Director Harry Sapienza
General Clinical Research Center
Last Updated: 10/27/2007
The center`s objectives are: to learn more about normal and abnormal body function, and the cause, progression, prevention, control, and cure of human disease, to provide an infrastructure for controlled investigation by clinical scientists supported through the NIH and other organizations, to encourage collaboration between investigators in the basic and clinical sciences, to encourage, develop and maintain a national corps of expert clinical investigators, and to provide a setting in which advances in basic scientific knowledge can be translated into methods for improved patient care.
Website: http://www.gcrc.umn.edu/gcrc/index.php
Director Elizabeth Seaquist
Healthy Foods, Healthy Lives Institute
Last Updated: 07/29/2007
The Healthy Foods, Healty Lives Institute is an interdisciplinary institute that will bring 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.
Director Mindy Kurzer
Healthy Youth Development Prevention Research Center
Last Updated: 06/18/2007
The Healthy Youth Development Prevention Research Center (PRC) collaborates with community-based, youth-serving organizations to promote youth development through research, training and advocacy. PRC researchers are learning about the best methods for providing teens with the necessary skills and opportunities to live healthy and meaningful lives. The center is also learning how to reduce health disparities that exist among Minnesota's young people.
Website: http://www.med.umn.edu/peds/gpah/cfahad/prc.html
Director Michael Resnick
High Field Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Facility
Last Updated: 07/11/2008
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
More Information (2007brochure.pdf)
Director Beverly Ostrowski
HIV/STI Intervention and Prevention Studies (HIPS) Program
Last Updated: 10/16/2007
The HIPS Program is a multidisciplinary research program with the mission to conduct formative research and to develop and test next generation interventions for HIV/STI prevention and the promotion of sexual health. A nationally-recognized strength of our program is the use of Internet-based methodologies applied to HIV prevention, and development of interventions for populations living with HIV and those at greatest risk
Website: http://www.epi.umn.edu/research/hips/index.shtm
Director B.R. Simon Rosser
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 Rights Center
Last Updated: 11/08/2007
The Human Rights Center works locally, nationally, and internationally to provide training, educational materials, and assistance to professionals, students, and volunteers engaged in the promotion and protection of human rights. The Human Rights Center assists human rights advocates, monitors, students, and educators through five primary programs.
Website: http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/center/default.html
More Information (HRC_Annual_Letter_v7_2.pdf)
Director Kristi Rudelius-Palmer
HumanFIRST Program
Last Updated: 11/07/2007
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Director Arlene Mathison
Immigration History Research Center
Last Updated: 03/06/2008
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/
Director Donna Gabaccia
India Center
Last Updated: 10/09/2008
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
Director Heidi Soneson
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/
Director Christopher Macosko
Industrial relations centers
Last Updated: 07/12/2007
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.irc.csom.umn.edu/Page349.aspx
Director Connie Wanberg
Innovation Studies
Last Updated: 07/17/2008
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
Director Jo Ellen Lundblad
Institute for Advanced Study
Last Updated: 01/03/2008
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/
More Information (IAS-burgundy.pdf)
Director Ann Waltner
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/
Director Evelyn Davidheiser
Institute for Mathematics and its Applications
Last Updated: 11/26/2007
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
More Information (trifold.pdf)
Director Douglas Arnold
Institute for Molecular Virology
Last Updated: 10/16/2007
Welcome to the Institute for Molecular Virology (IMV) at the University of Minnesota. Viruses are ubiquitous in nature and pose a continual serious threat to the health and well-being of their hosts (e.g., AIDS, HIV, herpes, influenza, avian flu, SARS, West Nile virus). Numerous disciplines and faculty with diverse training are required for advancements in our knowledge of how viruses interact with their hosts and how these interactions can lead to disease or be prevented by therapeutic intervention. Furthermore, interdisciplinary virus research has led to viruses being successfully used as 'tools' for better understanding molecular and cellular processes and for disease prevention. Finally, viruses pose a serious threat as bioterrorism agents. IMV investigators are dedicated to the enhancement of health by conducting virus research. IMV researchers are working towards or at the molecular level, which is the location where virus research and related investigations intersect one another. A central goal of the IMV is to encourage interdisciplinary and interprofessional collaborations that could lead to new discoveries and, ultimately, more potent diagnostics and therapies.
Website: http://www.virology.umn.edu/
Director Louis Mansky
Institute for New Media Studies
Last Updated: 06/19/2007
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
Director Nora Paul
Institute for Research in Marketing
Last Updated: 03/12/2008
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
More Information (IRM Academic brochure final version Sept 2006.pdf)
Director Akshay Rao
Institute for Rock Magnetism
Last Updated: 10/17/2007
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 and paleoclimate records. 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
More Information (IRM Facility Description 2006.doc)
Director SUBIR BANERJEE
Institute for Social, Economic, and Ecological Sustainability (ISEES)
Last Updated: 06/06/2007
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
Director Anne Kapuscinski
Institute for the Advancement of Science and Technology
Last Updated: 05/24/2007
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: 07/01/2008
The mission is to enhance the biomedical research infrastructure and create opportunities for drug discovery and early pre-clinical drug development.
Website: http://www.itdd.umn.edu
More Information (ITDD Brochure.pdf)
Director Vadim Gurvich
Institute of Child Development
Last Updated: 11/07/2007
The Institute of Child Development, as the Department of Child Psychology (CPsy) at the University of Minnesota, has long been a premier center of scholarship, teaching, and outreach devoted to the understanding and fostering of child development. Coursework and research activities focus primarily on the central cognitive, emotional, and psychological processes that underlie the development of infants, children, and youth.
Website: http://cehd.umn.edu/ICD/default.html
Director Danielle Bordeleau
Institute of Human Genetics
Last Updated: 06/18/2007
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.ihg.med.umn.edu/index.html
Director Rosalyn Segal
Institute of Linguistics, English as a Second Language, and Slavic Languages and Literature
Last Updated: 10/18/2007
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/
Director Barbara London
Institute on Community Integration
Last Updated: 02/28/2008
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/
Director David Johnson
Institute on Domestic Violence in the African American Community
Last Updated: 07/13/2007
The institute provides an interdisciplinary vehicle and forum by which scholars, practitioners, and observers of family violence in the African American community will have the continual opportunity to articulate their perspectives on family violence through research findings, the examination of service delivery and intervention mechanisms, and the identification of appropriate and effective responses to prevent/reduce family violence in the African American community.
Website: http://www.dvinstitute.org/
Director Oliver Williams
Institute on Race and Poverty
Last Updated: 10/16/2007
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/
More Information (IRP Trifold.Brochure.pdf)
Director Myron Orfield
Institute on the Environment
Last Updated: 03/06/2008
The mission of the Institute on the Environment is to conduct and facilitate interdisciplinary research on complex environmental issues of great societal urgency. The Institute also serves as an umbrella to bring together the vast community of environmental scholars and students at the University, and to serve as a focal point for communication on events, activities, classes and research.
Website: http://environment.umn.edu
Director Deborah Swackhamer
Intelligent Transportation Systems Institute
Last Updated: 11/06/2007
The Institute`s activities are guided by its theme of enhancing the safety and mobility of road- and transit-based transportation through a focus on human-centered technology. To that end, the Institute brings together technologists and those who study human behavior to ensure that Institute-developed technologies become tools that optimize human capabilities.
Website: http://www.its.umn.edu/
Director Max Donath
Intelligent Vehicles Program
Last Updated: 11/14/2007
Data indicate that most crashes and fatalities are a direct result of driver error. The long-term goal of the Intelligent Vehicles Laboratory is to develop and test innovative technologies that reduce driver error. Because of the clear and immediate benefits that driver-assistive systems offer, these technologies already have been deployed and tested on snowplows, emergency vehicles, buses, and other specialty vehicles. In the future, these systems will be deployed on passenger vehicles to further increase roadway safety.
Website: http://www.its.umn.edu/ProgramsLabs/IntelligentVehicles/index.html
Director Craig Shankwitz
Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change
Interdisciplinary graduate program
Last Updated: 06/08/2007
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 f