Itasca in St. Paul:
Celebrating 100 years of field biology

The Dean’s Office will bring a little bit of Itasca to St. Paul to culminate our year-long celebration of the field station’s 100th birthday.

The program will feature a presentation about the Minnesota Mississippi Metagenome Project (M3P), a new research effort to characterize the microbial diversity at the headwaters of the Mississippi and use it to evaluate human impact along the river. M3P recently received $400,000 in federal stimulus funds.

Other highlights include:

• Details about the University’s $8 million plan to renovate the Itasca campus
• Screening of a new video about the Itasca field station
• A drawing for a weekend at a beautifully restored faculty cabin at Itasca and other prizes
• Birthday cake and other refreshments

This promises to be an informative and entertaining event. Please RSVP by contacting Katie Hoffman at hoff0530@umn.edu.