Why University Research?

University of Minnesota researchers successfully competed for a record amount of external funding last year, pushing past the $1 billion mark for the first time in the University’s history.

The Grant-in-Aid of Research, Artistry, and Scholarship Program supports scholarly and artistic activities of faculty to foster excellence throughout UMN.

Through a combination of basic and applied science, researchers are bringing growers an economically feasible way to better protect soil and water.

Research suggests nature has placed constraints on how much the underlying rate of aging can be slowed, even as nutrition and public health improve.