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The University of Minnesota's Solar Energy Laboratory specializes in development of solar technologies for a wide range of applications including high-temperature cycles that utilize concentrated solar radiation for fuel and power production, and low-temperature distributed solar systems for space heating, cooling and hot water.

 

 

News

2012

Leanne Matthews won a 2012 National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship.


2012

Marc Dunham won a 2012 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship from the Department of Defense.


2011

Professors Wojciech Lipiński, Jane Davidson and Thomas Chase, along with Professor Sossina Haile at the California Institute of Technology, and our industrial partner Abengoa Solar, Inc., have been awarded a DOE Advanced Research Projects Agency Energy grant "Solar fuels via partial redox cycles with heat recovery"


2011

Josh Quinnell received the University of Minnesota Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship and the Minnesota Architectural Foundation Thomas F. Ellerbe Scholarship


2011

Peter Krenzke won an NSF Fellowship


2011

Masanori Honda was an honorable mention for an NSF Fellowship


2011

Wojciech Lipiński received the College of Science and Engineering Outstanding Professor Award


2011