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At the beginning of your college search, a virtual tour can be a beneficial tool to explore the campus before your visit. When you do visit the campus, be sure to talk to current students about their experiences. A student perspective is a helpful way to gauge your future experience when attending UMN Twin Cities. Already took an on-campus tour? It's inevitable. All of your college tours will blend, and you might forget the appearance of University of Minnesota - Twin Cities' library, dorms, or cafeteria. Use the virtual tour to jog your memory! With the interactive mapping tool below you can even explore the area surrounding the campus.

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Visiting campus is an important piece to deciding on a college. We offer many visit options for you. Whether you're looking to take your first steps on campus or learn more about us from the comfort of your home, we're here to give you the full campus experience. There are many other ways to connect with us outside of the campus experience and virtual campus experience. Learn more about our Major Exploration Days, Visiting your High School, Virtual Events and more!

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During your campus tour you will get a feel for what it is like to be a Golden Eagle student on our campus. We will show you everything from the student hang out areas like the Sargeant Student Center & International Lounge, our many on campus dining options, classrooms & labs, our state of the art Wellness Center , and our on-campus Residence Halls . If there is something more specific you would like to see make sure you request it when you sign up for your visit, or let us know during your tour!

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If you have any additional requests for your Campus Experience visit you can include that when you sign up under the “Questions & Comments” section. These can include things like meeting with an athletics’ coach, meeting with the Disability Resource Center , any dietary or mobility restrictions, etc. Please let us know any way that we can make your visit more enjoyable!

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Yay! We look forward to your visit with us. You should receive a confirmation email shortly after signing up to the email addresses that you included in your sign up form. You will also receive a reminder email with parking directions 3 days prior to your visit. If you have any questions regarding your visit please feel free to contact the Office of Admissions at (218) 281-8569.

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The U of M Crookston is located at the North West edge of Crookston, MN.

Our address is: 2900 University Avenue Crookston, MN 56716.

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All the information that you can find on the virtual Campus Experience will also be shared with you on an in-person campus tour. But on an in-person visit we will have the chance to dive into more details about all the spaces and opportunities for our students on our campus. If you are not able to make it to campus for a visit, we recommend that you reach out to your admissions counselor with your specific questions.

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Beautiful summer weather provided a perfect setting at the Fort Ouiatenon historical park in Tippecanoe County for the annual cookout hosted by the Purdue Veterinary Medicine Office of Research in honor of this year’s summer research scholars.  The Veterinary Scholars Summer Research Program provides opportunities for current Purdue DVM students and undergrads from Purdue and other universities to explore careers in clinical, diagnostic, and basic biomedical research.  The students work with faculty mentors to design and conduct summer research projects, while also participating in weekly seminars as well as other learning activities.  The summer picnic Thursday, May 30, brought together student participants and faculty mentors for food, games and fellowship.

The participants in this year’s Veterinary Scholars Summer Research Program include ten Purdue DVM students – seven from the Class of 2027 and three from the Class of 2026.  Additionally, there are six undergraduate students, including three from Purdue and one each from Prairie View A&M University in Texas, Vanderbilt University in Tennessee, and Franklin College in Indiana. The participants are being mentored by 16 faculty, representing the Departments of Basic Medical Sciences , Veterinary Clinical Sciences, Comparative Pathobiology , and the Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory .  Dr. Harm HogenEsch, Purdue Veterinary Medicine associate dean for research and Distinguished Professor of Immunopathology, and Dr. Eli Asem, professor of physiology in the Department of Basic Medical Sciences, organize the program by matching students and faculty. PVM Office of Research staff member Erin Lane provides administrative and logistical assistance.

This year’s program began with an introduction and orientation session May 29.  Seminars involving informal presentations and discussions with scientists on different topics related to biomedical research are held each Wednesday.  On Wednesday, June 26, the students will attend an all-day seminar jointly conducted by Purdue and the University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine at the Illinois campus in Urbana-Champaign.  The Purdue Summer Research Program will conclude with a Research Poster Session scheduled for 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Tuesday, August 6 in Lynn G119/155.  Then, the veterinary student participants will attend the Boehringer Ingelheim – National Veterinary Scholars Symposium, which will be held in St. Paul, Minnesota August 8-10.  A special thank you to Boehringer Ingelheim for serving as the college’s funding partner for the program, and to the PVM faculty members serving as mentors. In addition, one student received stipend support from the Morris Animal Foundation and one student received support from the American Veterinary Medical Foundation.

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NSF Awards $12.5M to Duke Researchers and Colleagues to Explore Polyploidy

A new $12.5 million National Science Foundation grant was awarded to Duke University School of Medicine researchers and colleagues to investigate biology common to cancer, agriculture, biodiversity and more.  

It's called polyploidy, and only within the last few years have biologists begun to recognize its significance across the tree of life.  

“Polyploidy packs cells and organisms with extra sets of genetic material. It’s found in organisms all over the planet and in the cells of essentially every human organ system,” said Don Fox, PhD , professor of pharmacology & cancer biology and cell biology who leads Duke’s effort in the multi-institution project. 

Fox is one of 18 scientists working to establish the Polyploidy Integration and Innovation Institute. The grant is part of a broader initiative by the NSF to bring together scientists from disparate areas of expertise to work on pressing problems in biology.  

The University of Florida and the Florida Museum will lead the project, collaborating with institutions including Duke, Cornell University, University of Kentucky, University of Minnesota, University of Mississippi, University of Pittsburgh, and the Ghent University and the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research. 

Fox’s laboratory will study polyploidy in an animal model -- the fruit fly.   

“We don’t know much about how polyploidy impacts biological processes. To answer this fundamental question, we needed a team approach,” Fox said.  

This NSF award enables Fox to combine his efforts in flies with colleagues in the U.S. and Europe, who will add studies in plants, algae, and fungi to the collaborative effort. “Polyploidy is a perfect topic for this sort of integration,” said plant biologist Pam Soltis, PhD, a curator at the Florida Museum and lead investigator on the project. Researchers with the institute will study the effects of polyploidy in plants and animals, from entire ecosystems down to organs and cells.  

“We want to conduct a set of experiments that is consistent across organisms,” said Doug Soltis, PhD, professor at the Florida Museum of Natural History and the Department of Biology at the University of Florida. “This is the first time we’ll be able to determine whether there are consistent rules that govern polyploidy.” 

The institute will use new and unique data management tools and prioritize community engagement to gain as much insight as possible, with eventual applications to agriculture, medicine, and conservation.  

“The institute will guide high school curriculum development and teacher training, provide research experiences for undergraduates, graduate students and post-doctoral researchers and offer training in science communication, while hosting local and international research conferences,” said Pam Soltis. 

Tip of the Iceberg  

At its most basic, polyploidy just means having more than the normal pair of matching chromosomes. Typically, when plants and animals undergo sexual reproduction, two sets of chromosomes — one from each parent — combine to create a new organism.  

Humans have been aware of this concept since the Austrian monk Gregor Mendel established the foundation of genetic inheritance by conducting experiments with pea plants. But occasionally, this process goes awry, and instead of a pair of chromosomes, offspring are endowed with additional chromosome sets in a process called genome duplication.  

This happens frequently in plants, and for several decades, botanists were the only ones who took a significant interest in the subject. The process can be so prevalent that some plants carry around eight or more chromosome pairs packed tightly in their cells. What is the utility of all this extra genetic material? Scientists once thought it didn’thave much use at all. Then they discovered it was one of the most common ways new species are formed. 

According to Soltis, they’re still learning this. “My own view is there are hundreds of thousands of cryptic polyploid species that we have never recognized or scientifically named.” 

For reasons that remain unclear, polyploidy also seems to be stratified on a global scale. There are fewer known polyploid species in the tropics than there are in colder regions, and the incidence of genome duplication appears to be higher at increased elevations.  

It may also have serious implications for how well plants are able to cope with rapid climate change.  

Biologists later discovered that polyploidy wasn’t just restricted to plants. Animals had it too. Nearly everything with a backbone can trace its origin to double genome duplication events that took place more than 450 million years ago. Similar duplications have occurred in fish, worms, insects, arachnids and mollusks.  

“Polyploidy is everywhere,” Soltis said. “It’s a giant iceberg, and we’re at the very tip.” 

Biomedical Implications 

Scientists next discovered that polyploidy did much more than increase biodiversity. It’s also an important part of the way many plants and animals function — or malfunction. Polyploidy is present in roughly 37% of cancer types in humans. In other types, scientists think induced polyploidy may even provide a cure. 

Polyploidy pops up in various organs as well, where it plays a significant role. “We’ve contributed to the finding that polyploidy promotes significant organ regeneration” said Fox, who co-directs Duke’s Regeneration Center. “And recently we collaborated with Dawn Bowles, PhD, in the Duke Department of Surgery and Nenad Bursac, PhD, in the Department of Biomedical Engineering to show that polyploidy shapes the chambers of the heart in both flies and humans. This means that polyploidy may play a critical role in sculpting not only the heart but many other organs.”  

The medical community began realizing the importance of polyploidy in the early 2000s, but they were largely unaware that other biologists had been intently focused on the topic for many decades. A series of scientific conferences devoted entirely to polyploidy helped bring everyone together.  

“It’s a case of not seeing what you don’t look for. We were all siloed, and there was a lot of surprise when people learned about what others were doing,” Soltis said.  

Just as genetics became its own field of study that transcended biological boundaries after Mendel laid out the laws of inheritance, polyploidy is poised to become a new specialty, one ripe for discovery and innovation. The Polyploidy Integration and Innovation Institute will help make this happen. 

In addition to Duke, the University of Florida, and the Florida Museum, other collaborating institutions are Cornell University, the University of Kentucky, the University of Minnesota, the University of Mississippi, the University of Pittsburgh, Ghent University and the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research. 

Content adapted from University of Florida.  

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William Arnold selected as a Fellow of AEESP

William Arnold has been named a 2024 Fellow of the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP). The official AEESP ceremony will be held June 18, 2024. 

Arnold is a Distinguished McKnight University Professor and the Joseph T. and Rose S. Ling Professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering at the University of Minnesota. He also serves as University of Minnesota Graduate Faculty in Water Resources Science, Graduate Faculty in Stream Restoration Science, is a Fellow at the Institute on the Environment and an Associate Fellow at the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute. William Arnold was selected as an AEESP Fellow based on his exemplary research and professional service. 

His research efforts unraveled the fundamental chemistry of organic pollutant transformation in aquatic environments. His efforts have led to improved understanding of reaction rates and byproducts and development of water treatment and remediation techniques. 

His innovative research in this area led directly to the banning of triclosan use in Minnesota, the development of new treatment technologies, and stronger predictive models, all of which safeguard public and ecological health. Most recently, Arnold’s research has contributed to the development of new methods for quantifying and treating or retaining poly- and per-fluorinated compounds.

His service to AEESP includes service on six different AEESP committees (chairing two) and on the Board of Directors, ultimately serving as President for 2021-2022. Arnold helped the organization navigate through the COVID-19 pandemic finding new ways to connect as a community. During his time as President (and president-elect before that), he helped implement the strategic plan developed under Joel Ducoste. Three key accomplishments of his term as President included, first, the establishment of a community engaged research task force to provide resources and a community of practice for those that engage with the public. The second was becoming part of the ACCESS+ cohort of professional societies, which allowed the organization to ensure that all members are welcome and represented in the organization. Lastly, Arnold co-led, with Jennifer Becker and Ray Hozalski, a fundraising effort to establish the new Edward Bouwer doctoral dissertation award. 

In the larger community, Arnold is often sought after to serve on committees for the National Academies and various advisory boards, including the Scientific Advisory Board for the San Francisco Estuary Institute and an Environmental Defense Fund working group. 

His colleague and department head, Paige Novak, describes Bill as an ideal scholar/leader who is making significant contributions to research and education.

Going forward, Arnold plans to remain active within AEESP and continue to seek out opportunities for the group to provide value to its members. He is particularly interested in mentorship for mid-career faculty. He will continue to promote and advise the organization, which he describes as his “home…where I can be an educator, a researcher, and a learner.” 

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Introduction

In November 2023, 57% of Ohio voters voted for Issue 2 , a ballot initiative which legalized adult recreational marijuana use and tasked the Ohio Departments of Commerce and Development with implementing a legal recreational cannabis industry in the state. As of December 7, 2023, individuals 21 years and older can legally consume and possess marijuana throughout Ohio, although recreational dispensaries are not expected to open until the summer or early fall of 2024. Like most other states that have legalized cannabis for recreational use, Ohio allows local jurisdictions to enact ordinances to prohibit or limit the operation of adult-use cannabis businesses within their boundaries. This page presents information on 56 local moratoriums enacted by Ohio jurisdictions as of May 31, 2024. Please note that the list may not be comprehensive.

Figure 1. Ohio localities with a moratorium for adult use marijuana operators

Local Prohibition Statute and Host Community Fund

The incorporation of a local business prohibition statute is common among the 24 states that have legalized adult cannabis use for recreational purposes. Only four states out of these 24—New Mexico, Rhode Island, Maryland, and Minnesota—do not give localities the power to prohibit businesses, although these states give localities the right to enact reasonable restrictions on time, place and manner of consumption. The extent to which localities opt out of the legal recreational market varies. For instance, in Michigan 73% of municipalities (1,300 out of 1,773) opted out; [1] in New York, only about 50% of municipalities (753 out of 1,520) opted out of allowing dispensaries within their boundaries. [2] . In comparison, the 56 Ohio municipalities that have passed moratoriums as of May 31, 2024, represent only a small fraction (roughly 3%) of the 924 incorporated municipalities and 1,307 townships in the state of Ohio.

Ohio’s Issue 2 enacted Ohio Revised Code Section 3780.25, under which localities can enact ordinances prohibiting the operation of adult-use businesses, although they may not prohibit the operation of existing medical cannabis operators that are already located within their jurisdiction. Additionally, localities cannot pass ordinances prohibiting or limiting marijuana-related research conducted at state universities, levy a tax, fee, or charge on adult-use operators that are not being levied on other businesses within the municipal corporation or township, and they cannot prohibit or limit home grow, or any other activity authorized under Chapter 3780.

If a dispensary license is issued by the Division of Cannabis Control for a locality that does not have a moratorium in place, the locality has 120 days to enact an ordinance prohibiting the operations of the dispensary. Upon passage of the ordinance, the dispensary has 60 days to cease operations, or begin the process of initiating a petition to operate that would have to be voted on at the next general election.

Host Community Fund

While the current law gives communities the power to prohibit adult-use cannabis operators from their jurisdictions, it also created an incentive for municipalities to allow operators by establishing the Host Community Fund. Thirty-six percent of the recreational cannabis excise tax revenue collected by the state will be directed to the Host Community Fund, which is then distributed to municipal corporations or townships that have adult use dispensaries. This revenue, along with the local sales tax collected from the sale of recreational marijuana, can be used by communities to fund their own priorities. [3]

The State of Local Moratoriums

As of May 31, 2024, 56 Ohio municipal corporations or townships passed moratoriums prohibiting adult-use cannabis businesses. We were able to collect the language of 50 of these moratoriums. [4] The 56 jurisdictions represent just over 10% of Ohio’s population, with the average population of moratorium localities hovering just under 22,000 residents.

Figure 2. Ohio moratoriums by jurisdiction’s population size

Of the 50 ordinances we collected, 49 jurisdictions enacted full moratoriums for all types of adult use operators. As shown in Table 1 below, 11 of these jurisdictions have left the length of the moratorium undefined, while the other jurisdictions averaged a moratorium of approximately nine months—17 are a full year or longer, while nine are six months or shorter. A handful of jurisdictions that enacted adult-use moratoriums already have operating medical marijuana establishments.

Table 1. Jurisdictions with Active Moratoriums and Licensed Medical Marijuana Establishments

The moratoriums are generally brief and often describe the need to ensure “public peace, health, safety, and welfare of [the locality’s] citizens.” The moratoriums also often cite the need for time to review current ordinances and identify any conflicting laws with state laws legalizing marijuana, or to wait for lawmakers in the Ohio General Assembly to revise Issue 2 before making any changes to their own code. Multiple jurisdictions have indicated an intent to actively study current law and create recommendations for their locality once the final state rules for the adult-use recreational industry are adopted.

Table 2. Stated purposes and intents of local moratoriums

Enduring consideration for localities.

While approaching a recreational cannabis market carefully might be prudent, localities that prohibit adult-use operators are foregoing potentially significant tax revenue stemming from cannabis businesses being located within their boundaries. Though Ohio tax revenues will not begin to accrue until the second half of 2024, revenues soon thereafter are forecasted to be considerable. [5] In addition to money allocated through the Host Community Fund, localities with active adult-use operators will generate local sales tax revenue that can be used for purposes specific to the community.

Moratoriums also limit opportunities for local entrepreneurs seeking to enter the adult-use market as well as possible employment prospects for local residents. For instance, according to some reports, Michigan’s cannabis industry has created 45,000 full-time positions. [6] Because cannabis businesses advance economic development in myriad ways, municipalities and townships considering moratoriums need to weigh not only public health and public safety concerns, but also the potential benefits of economic development, job creation, and tax revenue.

Lastly, localities should consider the possibility that prohibiting adult-use operators could have the unintended effect of increasing efforts to access cannabis through other means by local residents. Localities cannot make cannabis possession or use or even home grow illegal, and some local citizens are likely to seek out cannabis despite local bans through home grow efforts, or by traveling to nearby localities to find legal stores, or by turning to illicit markets to fill the void. Localities should continuously examine whether public health and public safety concerns are best served through local prohibitions or through well-crafted regulatory efforts.

[1]  Ken Haddad, “Here is which Michigan communities are opted out of adult-use marijuana sales”, December 12, 2023. Click on Detroit . https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/michigan/2023/12/12/heres-which-michigan-communities-are-opted-out-of-adult-use-marijuana-sales/

[2] Marijuana Opt-Out Tracker, Rockefeller Institute of Government, SUNY. https://rockinst.org/issue-areas/state-local-government/municipal-opt-out-tracker/

[3] The wording in the statute is as follows: “Thirty-six per cent to the host community cannabis fund for the benefit of municipal corporations or townships that have adult use dispensaries, and the municipal corporations or townships may use such funds for any approved purpose.” It is not clear what “approved purpose” means and which department, if any, is tasked with defining “approved purposes”.

[4] Avon Lake has enacted both a public consumption and adult use retail moratorium ordinances. Our center has collected language for both ordinances but does not include the public consumption ordinance in our count.

[5] Jana Hrdinova and Dexter Ridgway, “What Tax Revenues Should Ohioans Expect If Ohio Legalizes Adult-Use Cannabis?”, August 2023. Drug Enforcement and Policy Center. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4537855

[6] Angela Mulka, “Michigan's cannabis industry employs more than 46,000 workers”, April 26, 2024. Pioneer . https://www.bigrapidsnews.com/news/article/michigan-cannabis-industry-second-largest-in-us-19420833.php