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U of M Professors Awarded are Doing Exciting work with Practical Impacts

They won the MacArthur Fellowship for doing some cool stuff.

October 8, 2020

Neuroscientist Damien Fair and chemical engineer Paul Dauenhauer work in fields of study that not everyone understands. Neuroscience just, sounds complicated. And well, chemical engineering sounds no less daunting of a discipline. But that isn’t keeping Fair and Dauenhauer from doing work that we can all understand. Neuroscience professor Damien Fair is working to see…

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Chicken Pot Pie Tater Tot Hot Dish, with a spoonful taken out of the dish and some put into a bowl, and a separate Bowl of Ketchup

Chicken Pot Tot Dish

Why yes, this is Chicken Pot Pie and Tater Tot Hot Dish all in one. We're excited too

October 8, 2020

I’m writing this 24 hours before we’re supposed to be experiencing temperatures in the 80s here in Minneapolis. I can’t wait to be outside and give Summer weather one last farewell. Meanwhile, me and my fellow epicures out there are excitedly preparing for a legendary fall of cooking. To start out an incredible year of…

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More than a coffee shop: Duck Duck Coffee

Creative small business work is at the core of the value that small businesses provide to their communities

September 30, 2020

One year ago, Kat Naden bought a small storefront on the corner of 38th street and Cedar Ave and the story of Duck Duck Coffee began. That day, us neighbors were none the wiser – the empty storefront was unchanged. The creative work of running a small coffee shop was yet to be done. In…

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The Water Table Project

By Ryan Seibold: Ericsson Resident
September 29, 2020

WATER TABLE: A creek-based curriculum for the community By Ryan Seibold Water Table is an art project about water and community.  I am one of 12 artists working with Freshwater’s (freshwater.org) inaugural “Art for Water” initiative and cohort of artists in partnership with Hennepin County. This program provided resources to artists to learn about and…

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