: For Students, Faculty, and Staff 
The University of Minnesota hosts the 2024 Library Publishing Forum
The University of Minnesota hosted the annual Library Publishing Forum earlier this spring at the…
Adria CarpenterJune 6, 2024
Three exceptional student employees who keep the Libraries running
Every year members of the Friends of the Libraries’ awards committee recognizes three outstanding student…
Adria CarpenterMay 31, 2024
YMCA history fellows are ‘creating a usable past’ for boys and young men of color
The YMCA's Boys and Young Men of Color program helps boys and young men of…
Adria CarpenterMay 28, 2024
Robot dogs and genetically engineered flies: Students present their innovative ideas at Founder’s Day
Twenty-one student teams participated in the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) Challenge, presenting their prototypes or…
Adria CarpenterMay 13, 2024
The Sanborn family brought racial covenants to Robbinsdale. Now the city is renaming Sanborn Park
At a May 3 event in Robbinsdale, local residents learned about the history of racial…
Adria CarpenterMay 13, 2024
Breaking the silence: a new documentary grapples with the Holodomor’s legacy in Minnesota
“Holodomor: Minnesota Memories of Genocide in Ukraine,” a documentary by Zina Poletz Gutmanis, was screened…
Adria CarpenterApril 22, 2024
Learning how to treat Alzheimer’s disease with Virtual Reality
A new first-person program in the Virtual Reality Studio is helping medical students understand Alzheimer’s…
Adria CarpenterApril 2, 2024
‘It was genocide’: The secret society behind an ethnic cleansing in Minnesota
Some of Minnesota’s richest farmland lies in Blue Earth County, and the white settlers of…
Adria CarpenterMarch 29, 2024
‘A story of resilience’: Documenting the lives of Minnesota Holocaust survivors
April 15, 1945 was a bright and sunny day at the Bergen-Belsen concentration, which felt…
Adria CarpenterMarch 14, 2024
Piecing together the lives of formerly enslaved people
When Michaela Day went to elementary school in the late 1980s, she saw a few…
Adria CarpenterMarch 7, 2024