Campuses:
The Art of Discovery: Carl Flink & Marla Spivak (11/2/2011)
Driven to Discover: Bees (10/14/2011)
This ad features star faculty Marla Spivak and BFA grad Ricardo Vazquez. Spivak is working to protect our bee populations with the help of her students.Her team is developing practical methods to protect honey bees from decimation by disease. This year's campaign ads focus on the value and distinctiveness of the student experience at the U. They are an evolution of Driven to Discover and have a more youthful feel, signaling a renewed commitment to the student experience. These spots will begin to air October 16 for two months.
A higher state of beeing (10/14/2011)
Growing up in a coastal Brazilian town, Renata Borba loved to surf year-round. And as a student at the University of Ceara, she came to love honeybees.
But that university requires students to spend their final semester in an internship outside its walls. So Borba applied to study bees through the Minnesota Agricultural Student Trainee (MAST) program, which could have sent her anywhere in the United States.
Kaler's inauguration week includes campus tours and community visits (9/20/2011)
This week is the official inauguration of the University of Minnesota's 16th president, Eric Kaler, and as part of the festivities he's been touring campus and meeting the university's community stakeholders. On Monday, he visited the Bee Lab and turfgrass research on campus; Tuesday morning, he met with agricultural industry representatives and ag students from Forest Lake high school at the Fran and Mary Ann Miron farm near Hugo. Photos of Bee Lab visit
U of M Moment -- Queen Bee discusses honeybee's plight (6/16/2011)
U of M entomologist Marla Spivak is a world-renowned expert on the subject of bees and beekepping, and was awarded a MacArthur "Genius Grant" last year.
Classes Without Quizzes features everyday science (3/25/2011)
This years keynote speaker will be professor Marla Spivak, a world-renowned expert on bees and recent recipient of a MacArthur Foundation "Genius Grant."
U of M Moment: Beekeepers seek to educate public (3/10/2011)
Entomologist Gary Reuter from the U of M Bee Lab discusses the beekeeping short course offered at the Bell Museum of Natural History.
Marla Spivak, 2010 MacArthur Fellow (9/28/2010)
You can help stem bee decline, say speakers at Prairie Day (8/25/2011)
The important life of bees (7/19/2011)
Marla Spivak: A scientist with a real bee in her bonnet (7/1/2011)
'We need bees': Presentation to focus on insects' benefits (4/7/2011)
Beekeepers stung by tax proposal (4/2/2011)
Proposal to tax Calif. beekeepers stirs up swarm (3/30/2011)
Grant gives U bee prof big buzz (3/29/2011)
Local food championed at annual forum (3/23/2011)
Bringing back the bees (3/24/2011)
Inside the Mad Science of 7 Renegade Researchers (2/28/2011)
