Sponsors
We would like to take this opportunity to thank our sponsors, who have invested time and money in us and our research in Networks, Economics, and Urban Systems. With your support, we are able to stretch our minds around research and projects, and contribute to the understanding of inter-relationships of people, places, and the evolving social and physical networks that connect the world.
Organizations Administrative Agencies University of Minnesota Departments
Organizations
The National Science Foundation
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency created by Congress in 1950 "to promote the progress of science; to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare; to secure the national defense…" With an annual budget of about $5.5 billion, we are the funding source for approximately 20 percent of all federally supported basic research conducted by America's colleges and universities. In many fields such as mathematics, computer science and the social sciences, NSF is the major source of federal backing.
Administrative Agencies
The Minnesota Department of Transportation
Mission: Improve access to markets, jobs, goods and services and improve mobility by focusing on priority transportation improvements and investments that help Minnesotans travel safer, smarter and more efficiently.
Hennepin County of Minnesota
The mission of Hennepin County is to enhance the health, safety and quality of life of our residents and communities in a respectful, efficient and fiscally responsible way.
Federal Highway Administration
FHWA is charged with the broad responsibility of ensuring that America’s roads and highways continue to be the safest and most technologically up-to-date. Although State, local, and tribal governments own most of the Nation’s highways, we provide financial and technical support to them for constructing, improving, and preserving America’s highway system. Our annual budget of more than $30 billion is funded by fuel and motor vehicle excise taxes. The budget is primarily divided between two programs: Federal-aid funding to State and local governments; and Federal Lands Highways funding for national parks, national forests, Indian lands, and other land under Federal stewardship.
University of Minnesota Departments
Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota
The Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs inspires, educates, and supports innovative leaders to advance the common good in a diverse world. The Institute pursues its mission by using its resources and those of the University to integrate:
- Preparation of students for leadership in public affairs.
- The bridging of disciplines across the University and larger community to advance public affairs scholarship.
- Public engagement and scholarship to address important issues and to solve problems facing Minnesota, the nation, and the world in a non-partisan setting.
Intelligent Transportation Systems Institute, University of Minnesota
The Institute plans and conducts activities that further the mission of the UTC program of the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT). That mission is to advance U.S. technology and expertise in the many disciplines that make up transportation through education, research, and technology transfer activities at university-based centers of excellence.
Center for Transportation Studies, University of Minnesota
- CTS creates connections between researchers and funding organizations that are interested in transportation issues.
- CTS coordinates and manages research services for University of Minnesota researchers.
- CTS disseminates knowledge in the form of research reports and news publications.
- CTS initiates and coordinates interdisciplinary research on complex transportation-related issues such as transportation and regional growth.
Digital Media Center, University of Minnesota
The Digital Media Center (DMC) collaborates with collegiate and other central support units to promote the effective use of learning technologies at the University of Minnesota and to support faculty who use these technologies to improve teaching and learning.
Department of Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota
Our department has outstanding facilities and a vigorous, diverse education and research program in several disciplines of civil and geological engineering. Currently we have 35 full-time faculty members and 18 research staff in five specialty areas: environmental, water resources, structural, transportation and geomechanical engineering. The department has 360 undergraduates and 180 graduate students. Research takes place at three main buildings: the Civil Engineering Building on the University's East Bank, the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, a half-mile upstream on the Mississippi River, and the MAST Laboratory on the edge of the Minneapolis campus.