: For Students, Faculty, and Staff 
‘You are worth it’: First gen students share their stories
For many students finishing up the fall semester this year, they are the first in…
Adria CarpenterNovember 10, 2023
Maps that shaped the world
As premodern voyagers returned from overseas expeditions, bringing strange tales from strange lands, their perspectives…
Adria CarpenterOctober 27, 2023
Your basic Jack-O-Lantern needs a glow up. Here’s how.
Carving an artistic Jack-O-Lantern isn’t as difficult as it seems. Just ask Justin Boeser, a…
Adria CarpenterOctober 27, 2023
Recording the overlooked history of marginalized peoples
As part of the Radical Librarianship Institute program, Ellen Holt-Werle and Ego Sowinski decided to…
Adria CarpenterOctober 26, 2023
Falling in love at Walter Library
Ling Wang met her future husband at a Chinese New Year party in 1995. He…
Adria CarpenterOctober 26, 2023
‘Playing Indian’: A retrospective on the YMCA’s Indian Guides program
Ryan Bean and co-author Paul Hillmer, a professor of American history at Concordia University in…
Adria CarpenterOctober 13, 2023
Using zines to preserve intergenerational memories
From connecting LGBTQ history to the present, preserving memories of the 2020 Minneapolis uprisings, and…
Adria CarpenterOctober 13, 2023
The classroom is a laboratory
Leslie Schiff has always loved science and research, but her biggest discovery was her love…
Adria CarpenterOctober 4, 2023
Mushrooms, virtual reality, buttons, and more at the second annual HSEC Open House
The second annual Health Science Education Center (HSEC) Open House introduced a new crop of…
Adria CarpenterSeptember 25, 2023
‘How normalized it is’: Minnesota’s history of starting the academic year on Jewish holidays
On Sept. 7, 2021, Jewish students at the University of Minnesota had to make a…
Adria CarpenterSeptember 19, 2023