Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs & Provost

The University of Minnesota is making enormous strides in the effort to transform itself into one of the top three public research universities in the world. Colleges, programs, and institutes have been launched to create new academic synergies that will lead the way to meet many of the challenges we will face in the 21st century. The results include three new colleges poised for greatness: the College of Design, the College of Education and Human Development, and the College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences; several new programs to enhance the undergraduate and graduate educational experience, including a new Department of Writing Studies; and four major interdisciplinary institutes positioned to tackle the questions of tomorrow.

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Midwest Economic Summit, June 26-27, 2008

The University of Minnesota and the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis hosted a major summit on the Midwest Economy.

Provosts and Presidents from the twelve universities in the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC), a consortium of the Big 10 universities plus the University of Chicago, attended the event, as did University leaders, leaders of regional banks, chief executive officers, government leaders, economists, researchers and professors.

The event was moderated by Chris Farrell, Editor of Public Radio's Marketplace Money, pictured above with President Bruininks and Provost Sullivan.

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Video of Provost Sullivan Discussing the Summit

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Leonid Hurwicz: 1917-2008

University of Minnesota Regents Professor Emeritus Leonid Hurwicz, who won the Nobel Prize in 2007, died June 24.

Professor Hurwicz, along with two other Americans, was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in economics for theories that help set rules for transactions ranging from auctions to elections.

Hurwicz, 90, was the oldest Nobel winner in history. The Moscow-born researcher won the award along with Eric Maskin and Roger Myerson.

Statement from President Robert Bruininks.