- Campuses :
- Twin Cities
- Crookston
- Duluth
- Morris
- Rochester
- Other Locations
Business Resources and Partnerships
As a University undergraduate, Tim Hebrink researched polymers at 3M, where he now works. For more than 100 years, the University’s Institute of Technology and 3M have worked together to generate ideas and products.
Renewable Energy and the Environment
Many amphibian species are threatened with extinction. Habitat loss accounts for much of the decline, but University researcher Lucinda Johnson and her colleagues report how a common herbicide may also play a role.
International Engagement
Africa’s first democratically elected female head of state, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, connected with the local Liberian community when she delivered the 2009 Distinguished Carlson Lecture at the University.
Office of International Programs : Coordinates and promotes the internationalization of the U's teaching, research, and outreach.
Community engagement : Opportunities for international students.
Children, Family, and Community Resources
The Students in Free Enterprise team at the University of Minnesota, Crookston, joined with the Red Lake Nation American Indian community to launch school recycling programs and explore funding for one or more wind turbines.
University of Minnesota Extension : Agriculture, community, environment, family, garden, living, youth.
K12@U : Professional development and classroom resources for teachers, classes for K through 12 students, and summer youth camps.
It’s not enough for the University to dispense knowledge and do research, it has always felt a duty and a desire to be an integral part of the community and the world. Its students, faculty, and staff learn from others as they help businesses come into being, build bridges between cultures, tackle environmental challenges, and guide Minnesota families toward healthier lives.
The Office for Public Engagement works to enhance the University of Minnesota’s activities and stature as a publicly engaged research university.
The new Urban Research and Outreach/Engagement Center (UROC) anchors the University's presence in the North Minneapolis community, and supports projects and interdisciplinary teams that are focused on developing sustainable urban partnerships. A 21,000 square foot building is being renovated for UROC, and is anticipated to open in the summer of 2009.
UROC coordinates the University’s involvement in University Northside Partnership, an alliance formed in 2006. Through this partnership, the University collaborates with neighborhood organizations and local government to enhance the social and economic environment in North Minneapolis.
Statewide University Locations
- Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve
- Cloquet Forestry Center
- County Extension Offices
- Hormel Institute, Austin
- Horticultural Research Center, Excelsior
- Lake Itasca Forestry and Biological Station
- Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, Chanhassen
- North Central Research and Outreach Center, Grand Rapids
- Northwest Research and Outreach Center, Crookston
- Sand Plain Research Farm, Becker
- Soudan Underground Research
- Southern Research and Outreach Center, Waseca
- Southwest Research and Outreach Center, Lamberton
- UMore Park
- West Central Research and Outreach Center, Morris