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He got rhythm
From fluctuations in blood pressure to the best time to treat cancer, Franz Halberg has found bodily rhythms that we ignore at our peril The walleye and the professor
Walleyes, with their huge cone cells, were the perfect animal for psychology professor Dwight Burkhardt to study vision. His work also spurred the design of better fishing lures. Gorham led the way in curbing fallout, acid rain
By finding how radioactive fallout entered the human food chain and uncovering the link between smokestack emissions and acid rain, Eville Gorham laid the basis for the first nuclear test ban treaty and curbs on industrial pollution. Puffed grain and snacks have a U tie
More than a century ago, a one-time University faculty member revolutionized how people around the world eat their breakfasts. When it comes to mums, M's the word
It's no secret: If you want to grow great chrysanthemums in the north country, choose a hardy bloom born and bred at the University of Minnesota. Beating computer bugs with biology
The next generation of computer-security programs put a new twist on the concept of virus protection. They use defensive techniques borrowed straight from the human immune system to control electronic invaders. The idea came from the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA), an innovative University of Minnesota think tank. The father of the "Green Revolution"
Few people have quietly changed the world for the better more than plant pathologist and University of Minnesota graduate Norman Borlaug. He's spent most of the past 60 years in the farmlands of Africa, Asia and Mexico fighting world hunger -- and saving, by some estimates, up to 1 billion lives in the process. How a low-tech invention changed the course of medicine
With about $15 worth of odds and ends from their laboratory -- including tubing made for carrying beer -- Richard DeWall and Walt Lillehei in 1955 created what became known as the DeWall-Lillehei bubble oxygenator, the very first artificial heart-lung machine. The world's first bone marrow transplant
Thirty years ago, doctors at the University of Minnesota inserted a syringe into David Stahl, a 16-year-old suffering from advanced lymphoma, and injected him with disease-fighting bone marrow donated by his little brother. The man who put the 'K' in K rations
The K ration was part of everyday life on the front lines for hundreds of thousands of U.S. soldiers who served in World War II. Few of those GIs (and just as few people today) knew that the K ration was formulated at the University of Minnesota by a real-life "K" -- Dr. Ancel Keys. Internet 1.0: Before the World Wide Web there was Gopher
A system called Gopher, created in 1991 by a University of Minnesota team lead by programmer Mark McCahill, was a key step in turning that matrix of dead end roads into today's information superhighway. Groundbreaking research that revitalized Minnesota's Iron Range
Today, taconite mining contributes $1.5 billion annually to Minnesota's economy. Two-thirds of the iron used to build American cars, ships, homes and bridges comes from Mesabi Range taconite mines in northeastern Minnesota. Improving the state of soybeans
Research conducted at the University of Minnesota has helped drive Minnesota agriculture's biggest rags-to-riches success story: the rise of the soybean from an exotic Asian import to a billion-dollar-a-year powerhouse that's surpassed corn as the state's top farm export. A crash course in transportation safety
The next time you take a safe road trip or your flight touches down accident-free, say thanks to a man named Crash -- James "Crash" Ryan, a mechanical engineer and innovator in transportation safety who taught for three decades at the University of Minnesota. How about them apples!
The Honeycrisp apple -- developed at the University of Minnesota to thrive in a cool northern climate -- was recently named Minnesota's official state fruit by lawmakers in St. Paul, joining the loon, the walleye and the northern pine as one of those symbols that distinctively say "Minnesota." The Minnesota-China connection
The University of Minnesota currently is the #1 destination for Chinese students and scholars who come to the U.S., continuing a thriving relationship that started nearly a century ago. Global learning opportunities for every student
With more than 300 international programs in 67 countries, the University of Minnesota is one of the top schools in the country for students who want to learn, work or volunteer their time around the globe. The Minnesotan behind the Mediterranean diet
Understanding the healthy effects of the Mediterranean diet has its roots in the groundbreaking research of a University of Minnesota pioneer who also helped popularize the benefits of eating lots of vegetables and fish. Bringing the University Libraries to every citizen of Minnesota
The University of Minnesota Libraries is the top-ranked research library in North America when measured by the number of books, articles and other material it loans to other libraries throughout North America and the world -- as well as to libraries in Minnesota, North and South Dakota.
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