Concerns over administrative bloat lead to increased transparency.
The state House granted the University of Minnesota increased funding to freeze tuition Monday, but it came with a few strings attached for the future: to show legislators where the money’s going.
via Minnesota Daily.
Caves near Lake Pepin were once mined for key ingredient for gun powder.
The University of Minnesota researcher was the first to rediscover caves French explorers abandoned in the 1700s. He began exploring and categorizing the caves near Lake Pepin in 2004 and is defending his doctoral thesis on the research this semester.
The French explorers, including Pierre-Charles Le Sueur, mined the caves for saltpeter, the main ingredient in gunpowder until World War I.
Historians have unearthed the remains of caves containing saltpeter in the southern parts of the U.S., but they never made it this far north. And the explorers never mapped the saltpeter caves in Minnesota.
So Brick had to sift through Le Sueur’s notes and journals describing the area to find and map the caves himself.
via MN Daily.
[release] #UMN researchers unveil the first artificial enzyme created by evolution in a test tube. z.umn.edu/bqy
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“Animal rights activists want to take the University of Minnesota to court over its alleged secrecy in animal testing,” via The Minnesota Daily.
A 21 year old St Paul man who is a student at the University of Minnesota has transformed his bedroom into an impressive ball track using K’nex toy construction elements.
He describes what went into the impressive structure on his YouTube page, “This is Clockwork, my fifth major K’nex ball machine, and my largest and most complex K’nex structure to date. It took 8 months to build, has over 40,000 pieces, over 450 feet of track, 21 different paths, 8 motors, 5 lifts, and a one-of-a-kind computer-controlled crane, as well as two computer-controlled illuminated K’nex balls.”
“Even at a young age, Austin Granger… enjoyed the art of building things,” writes ABC News which profiles Granger.
View a 3D interactive photo of Clockwork
Blog: Austin’s K’nex Designs
Photo: Walter White, credit: Vince Gilligan/AMC
MN Daily chats with “Department of Chemistry professor and chair — and ‘Breaking Bad’ fan — William Tolman about the true elements involved in four of the show’s many dramatic chemical reactions.”
via Breaking bonds: The chemistry of “Breaking Bad” | mndaily.com – The Minnesota Daily.
