News & Announcements

The 6th annual conference gave women innovators and other attendees a space to gather and connect while listening to keynote speeches by local entrepreneurs Mary Grove and Damaris Hollingsworth and attending breakout sessions to nurture their innovation skills.

UMN is partnering with the State to inject $34.5 million into Minnesota’s early-stage businesses, helping to boost the state’s strong startup ecosystem.

Air Force Office of Scientific Research and Johns Hopkins University visitors met with the UMN president and VPR to discuss biosensing research challenges and explore UMN’s research infrastructure

The two universities signed a memorandum of understanding that will facilitate faster knowledge transfer by opening the door for faculty and student exchanges, joint activities, and access to state-of-the-art research facilities.

Through a partnership with Cisco Systems, UMN computer scientists Stevie Chancellor and Loren Terveen are developing an AI chatbot to help reduce bias in video conference meetings.

Eight UMN startups and three companies that have utilized a UMN startup “incubator” received innovation grants from the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development.

Recently recognized by the White House’s Sync for Social Needs coalition, XanthosHealth co-founders David Haynes and Pinar Karaca-Mandic built a health IT platform to improve health outcomes by documenting social determinants of health.

OVPR has launched a new funding opportunity focused on biosensing to support a broad spectrum of applications and bring together an international coalition of experts.

The Office of the Vice President for Research has created a new organizational structure to better serve the University’s research community. Amy Kircher’s role as associate vice president (AVP) for external affairs and strategic initiatives transitioned from part time to full time in September.

Yingling Fan is professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs and also a technical innovator and startup founder of Daynamica.