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Putting his Beste foot forward
At 20, East Grand Forks' Nick Beste already owns a few businesses expected to bring in more than $6 million this year.While his business endeavors are more diverse now, Beste started with just the Beste Co., which distributed Village Hot Sauce outside of the Red River Valley. Now, Beste Co....
Tags: food, Manufacturing, Minneapolis, Minnesota, University of Minnesota
Research articles 2007-09-10
UMC pride
CROOKSTON - About 25 faculty and staff packed a classroom at the University of Minnesota-Crookston on Thursday to watch University of Minnesota system President Robert Bruininks deliver his State of the University address over interactive television from Minneapolis.That number's not huge, but it was enough to win UMC the prize...
Tags: attendance, Manufacturing, TVs, University of Minnesota
Research articles 2007-04-06
Fresh Express, the leading packager of fresh-cut produce, has pledged $2 million to fight chronic food pathogen E. coil 0157:H7
Fresh Express, the leading packager of fresh-cut produce, has pledged $2 million to fight chronic food pathogen E. coil 0157:H7. The money will be administered by a research panel headed by the director of the University of Minnesota's Center for Infectious Disease Research.
Tags: food, Manufacturing, University of Minnesota
Research articles 2007-02-01
Overcoming the "Feh"-factor: lessons in cultural diversity: in some households on our block a baseball bat was a sports object. In ours, it was an implement for beating rugs.(Column)
When I was on the faculty of the University of Minnesota, I introduced the first course in our curriculum specifically focused on language disorders and cultural diversity. In preparing the course, I attended conferences and studied the emerging literature, but my earliest lessons in cultural diversity...
Tags: Brooklyn, food, Manufacturing, plate, University of Minnesota
Research articles 2007-01-23
Grasses Touted Over Corn As Ethanol Fuel Source
MINNEAPOLIS - With world demand for both food and fuel projected to double in the next 50 years, researchers at the University of Minnesota are looking for ways to remove the burden from corn as a source of fuel in ethanol."Unless we produce tood and biofuel in an efficient manner,...
Tags: Government, grass, Manufacturing, researcher, University of Minnesota
Research articles 2007-01-15
Vitamins linked to teen health
MINNEAPOLIS -- Adolescents who take multivitamin supplements also tend to follow more healthful dietary and lifestyle behaviors, according to a recent study conducted by the University of Minnesota. Researchers looked at the use of multivitamins among 2,761 teenagers in the 12th grade who participated in the Child and Adolescent...
Tags: Manufacturing, Minneapolis, University of Minnesota, vitamin
Research articles 2007-01-08
Better biofuels.(NEWS WATCH)
Diverse mixtures of native prairie plant species have emerged as a leader of the best sources of biomass for producing sustainable, bio-based fuel to replace petroleum. A new study led by David Tilman, ecologist at the University of Minnesota, shows that mixtures of native perennial grasses...
Tags: acre, biofuel, grass, Manufacturing, petroleum, species, University of Minnesota
Research articles 2007-01-01
Pandemic resources for business.(Intelligence)(Brief article)
ACCORDING TO a Dutch proverb, sickness arrives on horseback and departs on foot. If predictions about a devastating influenza pandemic are correct, illness could be arriving on the wings of a bird, and it won't go away until it brings society to its knees. ...
Tags: food, Government, influenza, Manufacturing, MARKETING, Quality, SOFTWARE, University of Minnesota
Research articles 2006-11-01
Rutherford Aris September 15, 1929 - November 2, 2005
Rutherford Aris, Regents Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering and Classics at the University of Minnesota, died on November 2, 2005 after a long and distinguished career. Born in Bournemouth, England, in 1929, Aris completed a first class honors degree in mathematics at the University of London at the age of...
Tags: CAREER, Manufacturing, PRODUCTIVITY, professor, University of London, University of Minnesota
Research articles 2006-01-01
New Research Initiative Aims to Promote Healthy Eating, Prevent Obesity Among Children; Healthy Eating Research Proposals Due by March 7.
Byline: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation PRINCETON, N.J., Dec. 12 AScribe Newswire -- The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation RWJF today launched Healthy Eating Research, a new program to determine effective changes in policies and environments that can promote healthy eating among children. The five-year, $16-million...
Tags: Benefits, food, HEALTHCARE, Manufacturing, SOFTWARE, University of Minnesota
Research articles 2005-12-12
Plans Proceed for New Biomass-Fired Plant in Minnesota, an Advisory from Industrialinfo.com
HOUSTON -- Researched by Industrialinfo.com (Industrial Information Resources, Incorporated; Houston, Texas). Approval has been granted for a new biomass plant to be constructed at the University of Minnesota on the Morris Campus. For details, view the entire article by subscribing to Industrialinfo.com's Premium Industry News at http://www.industrialinfo.com/showNews.jsp?newsitemID=66656, or browse...
Tags: Houston, Leadership, Manufacturing, MARKETING, University of Minnesota
Research articles 2005-08-12
Old Home Foods
Old Home Foods, Minneapolis--Geoff Murphy promoted to chief executive officer. Murphy succeeds Rick Hanson, with Rick's retirement from the position. Murphy joined Old Home Foods in 1998 as plant mgr. Over the past seven years, he has assumed positions of increased responsibility including v.p. of operations, chief operating officer...
Tags: food, Manufacturing, Minneapolis, Murphy, Rick, University of Minnesota
Research articles 2005-06-01
Prism Research Signs with University Enterprise Laboratories; Lease Puts UEL One Year Ahead of Plan
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- University Enterprise Laboratories UEL, the Twin Cities' new bioscience incubator, announced today the ten-year lease of 15,000 square feet to Prism Research, a company specializing in Phases I and II clinical trials for new pharmaceutical products and medical devices. "I can't begin to describe our...
Tags: HEALTHCARE, lease, Manufacturing, University of Minnesota
Research articles 2005-01-24
University of Minnesota opens new food center
University of Minnesota opens new food center: The University of Minnesota has opened its Center for Post-Harvest Food Protection and Defense, a federally funded center to protect the nation's food supply from terrorists. The Associated Press reports that the center, funded by a $15 million, three-year grant, is one of...
Tags: food, Manufacturing, University of Minnesota
Research articles 2004-07-12
Agro-security centers tie public, private sectors to focus efforts on animal diseases, food security
MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. -- State and federal officials were in Minneapolis last week to see a sample of some of the work that will be done at the university's Center for Food Protection & Defense and make official a $15 million grant from the Department of Homeland Security DHS to fund...
Tags: food, Manufacturing, security, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, University of Minnesota
Research articles 2004-07-12
New center established to help safeguard food supply.(Washington)
The Homeland Security Center for Post-Harvest Food Protection and Defense at the University of Minnesota has been launched. The center joins two others: the National Center for Foreign Animal and Zoonotic Disease Defense at Texas A&M University, centering on animal diseases, and the Homeland Security Center...
Tags: food, Government, Manufacturing, terrorism, University of Minnesota, University of Southern California
Research articles 2004-07-12
Gophers invent prize-winning healthy ice cream novelty.
A trio of students at the University of Minnesota have won the "Best Overall" prize in Dairy Management's Discoveries in Dairy Ingredients Contest for their new healthy frozen novelty product which they refer to as "ice cream poppers."The three food science doctoral students came out ahead...
Tags: food, Manufacturing, University of Minnesota
Research articles 2004-04-20
The political economy of wild rice: indigenous heritage and university research.(The Political Economy Of Wild Rice)(Anishinaabeg community )
So here we are at the University of Minnesota and it is 2004. You're Ron Phillips, Regents Professor and McKnight Presidential Chair in Genomics, and you take all the DNA strand segments out of a native strain of wild rice and stick them in some...
Tags: Manufacturing, Minnesota, researcher, Strategy, University of Minnesota
Research articles 2004-04-01
Dealing with downers: when a cow goes down, time is of the essence.
While no one likes dealing with downer cattle, USDA's ban on the sale of downers into the human food supply adds urgency to the problem. According to veterinary researchers, there are nearly 300 documented causes of downer-cow syndrome. But the four primary ...
Tags: cow, Cox, Manufacturing, muscle, University of Minnesota
Research articles 2004-02-01
Calendar.(Calendar)
FEBRUARY 2004 18 Partners in Packaging, Los Angeles, CA; Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute; 1-888-ASK-PMMI; www.pmmi.org/pip. 23-24 Principles of Warehouse Sanitation, Manhattan, KS; American Institute of Baking; 800-633-5137 or 785-537-4750; www.aibonline.org. 24-27 Food Claims and Litigation Conference, Amelia Island, FL;...
Tags: Computer Associates International Inc., conference, food, Litigation, Manhattan, Manufacturing, University of Minnesota
Research articles 2004-02-01