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Researchers discover links between city walkability and air pollution exposure
 A new study compares neighborhoods’ walkability (degree of ease for walking) with local levels of air pollution and finds that some neighborhoods might be good for walking, but have poor air quality. The study, done for Canada’s Vancouver, British Columbia, is the first study of its kind to compare the two environmental attributes, and suggests potential environmental health effects of neighborhood location, layout, and design for cities around the globe. University of Minnesota civil engineering faculty member Julian Marshall was one of the researchers who conducted the study. Read more>>
Researchers map the bottom of the world
 Based in the Institute of Technology’s Department of Geology and Geophysics, the National Science Foundation-funded Antarctic Geospatial Information Center (AGIC) is creating tailor-made maps that researchers and logistics experts in the U.S. Antarctic Program depend on daily. Paul Morin, director of the National Science Foundation-funded Antarctic Geospatial Information Center (AGIC), works with a staff of 10 including some five undergraduate and graduate students, use images from various satellites to produce the maps. Many of his team's maps are the first maps of their kind of lands where no human has yet tread. Read more>>
University of Minnesota to lead new wind energy consortium
 A consortium of wind energy researchers led by the University of Minnesota will receive up to $8 million from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for fostering wind energy development in the United States. The consortium was one of only three across the country receiving funding. Institute of Technology civil engineering professor Fotis Sotiropoulos, director of the University of Minnesota’s St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, is the lead researcher on the project. Several other Institute of Technology faculty are also involved. Read more>>
University to make request for new Physics and Nanotechnology Building
The University of Minnesota Board of Regents recently approved the University’s 2010 Capital Request to the Minnesota Legislature, which includes an $80 million request for a new Physics and Nanotechnology Building on the Twin Cities campus. The building would house the physics research program and the Center for Nanostructure Applications. Current physics laboratories are nearly 80 years old and obsolete. Co-locating physics and nanotechnology will also foster connections that will allow for increased collaboration between these two vitally important research areas. Read more>>
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