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The National School of Public Health in Cuba and the University of Minnesota signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to strengthen their academic and research partnerships at a virtual ceremony in May.

The University of Minnesota is proud to announce Shane Stennes has been hired as its first systemwide chief sustainability officer (CSO), effective May 9.

University of Minnesota Senior Research Scientist Deepak Ray, with global collaborators, mapped crop harvests for seven end-uses and found that harvests of crops for direct food use will be insufficient to meet the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal 2 (SD2) of food security for all by 2030.

The Finnish-American Research & Innovation Accelerator (FARIA) is seeking U.S. collaborators for research projects within the FARIAincubator program. Letters of interest are due April 15, 2022.

The Center for Animal Health and Food Safety (CAHFS) in the College of Veterinary Medicine dedicates itself to these issues. CAHFS graduates go on to collaborate with partners across the globe to ensure food safety and sustainability, as well as economic stability. 

The Center for Global Health and Social Responsibility awarded Global Engagement Grants to support work that blends research, education, and capacity building. 

Scholars from Europe, Australia, and central Asia are visiting the Institute on Community Integration as part of a broad-based exchange aimed at increasing the inclusion of people with disabilities around the globe. 

A team of engineers from the University of Minnesota’s Center for Filtration Research has come up with a novel approach to help test cleaning the air of cities in India and China using towers that scrub pollution from the atmosphere. 

Colombia enacted a new law in August of 2021 to better protect women from intimate partner violence, due in large part to the work of two researchers at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs.

Kieran McNulty returned to Kenya for his field work recently for the first time since the pandemic began.