News & Events

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Insight into Northern Minnesota's Domesticated Apple

UMD is simulating the pitch-black hunting conditions of Lake Superior to learn more about how the siscowet feed.

UMD's Clay Carter, associate professor in the Department of Biology, along with his graduate and undergraduate students, are studying the genes of nectar yielding plants to find out how necta

Twenty UMD undergraduates recently visited the Friday Harbor Marine Laboratory on San Juan Island, Wash.

On September 13, UMD welcomes alumnus Brian Kobilka, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

UMD and the Nature Conservancy set out to adapt trees in the Minnesota’s Northern forests

Minnesota’s ground squirrels may hold the clues for a weight loss aid.