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"Beyond the Game: Sport, Healing, and Wellness" invites visitors to explore the rich intersections of athletics, community, and care across history. Presented by the Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine, this exhibit is offered in celebration of the athletes gathering at the University of Minnesota for the 2026 Special Olympics.
The curators are offering hour-long, curator-led tours for parties up to 12 on select Mondays, Thursdays, and Fridays from noon to 2 p.m. for the duration of the exhibition — June 8 through Sept. 18, 2026. Advance registration is required.
The curators are offering hour-long, curator-led tours for parties up to 12 on select Mondays, Thursdays, and Fridays from noon to 2 p.m. for the duration of the exhibition — June 8 through Sept. 18, 2026. Advance registration is required.
You’ll learn how to effectively find scholarly sources including searching databases and find books and online journal articles. Learn how specialist librarians and other library staff can help you to succeed at UMN. Open to all colleges, departments, and disciplines. Open everyone but recommended for first-year graduate students, new post-docs or researchers!
oin us for a free workshop introducing topics and tools to help you manage your research data. This introductory workshop will build upon topics covered in the free, asynchronous Canvas course, and present data management issues specific to researchers in the sciences, arts & humanities, and for those working with data involving human participants. The session will include a preview of tools for managing a variety of data across your entire research project.
Whether you need a quick dopamine boost between lectures or just want to cuddle a furry (or feathered) friend, drop in anytime to hang out with Boynton’s legendary registered therapy team at Wilson Library. Yes, we actually have dogs, cats, and chicken!
Are you curious or new to generative AI tools like Chat GPT or the UMN licensed tools like Gemini or Co-Pilot but not sure how to use them (or if you should) in your research and writing? Get an introduction to how these tools work, the pros and cons of using and tips for potentially incorporating them into your research and writing practice.
You’ll learn how to effectively find scholarly sources including searching databases and find books and online journal articles. Learn how specialist librarians and other library staff can help you to succeed at UMN. Open to all colleges, departments, and disciplines. Open everyone but recommended for first-year graduate students, new post-docs or researchers!
Please join us on Thursday, Sept. 10 for an exhibit closing reception, celebrating the archive and artwork of Harriet Bart, a leading Twin Cities artist. Active from the 1970s to the present, Bart’s artistic career and achievements are illuminated, bringing to light her creative process and work that has consistently examined the intersection of visual and performative art, history, poetry, and science.
The curators are offering hour-long, curator-led tours for parties up to 12 on select Mondays, Thursdays, and Fridays from noon to 2 p.m. for the duration of the exhibition — June 8 through Sept. 18, 2026. Advance registration is required.
Join us on Fridays on the West Bank to stretch, strengthen, and clear your mind. Whether you’re an undergraduate writing your first research paper, a grad student deep in dissertation mode, or staff and faculty taking a lunch break—this space is for you.
The curators are offering hour-long, curator-led tours for parties up to 12 on select Mondays, Thursdays, and Fridays from noon to 2 p.m. for the duration of the exhibition — June 8 through Sept. 18, 2026. Advance registration is required.
Start the semester right and get to know Walter Library — one of the OG study spots on campus. Did you know Walter Library is over 100 years old? We are throwing open the doors to Walter Library to celebrate with a bit of sport and game to celebrate the end of the first week of fall semester!
Games, puzzles, treats from M Food Co (visit the Wise Owl Coffee Shop for a free sample) and more! Explore Walter Library and find your favorite study spot! Play a board game! Puzzle! Make something (did we say...sewing machines?) and get creative (did we say...button making?). Get to know the tools and study spaces in the Toaster. We will have Walter and campus history pop up exhibit including old copies of the Minnesota Daily and the Minnesota Gopher yearbooks in the fancy Upson room (103).
Free! All are welcome! Come solo or bring a friend! Join us Friday, September 11 anytime from 4-7 in Walter Library (east bank). Students from all colleges, departments and majors are welcome!
The curators are offering hour-long, curator-led tours for parties up to 12 on select Mondays, Thursdays, and Fridays from noon to 2 p.m. for the duration of the exhibition — June 8 through Sept. 18, 2026. Advance registration is required.
The curators are offering hour-long, curator-led tours for parties up to 12 on select Mondays, Thursdays, and Fridays from noon to 2 p.m. for the duration of the exhibition — June 8 through Sept. 18, 2026. Advance registration is required.
Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, annotate PDFs and sources then create in-text citations, works cited or a bibliography in seconds. The workshop is open to all disciplines, colleges and departments.
Meet with fellow learners on Zoom and learn how to use Zotero to create your own database of citations, PDFs, images, webpages, video and audio files and more. Zotero can then be used to create citations in a large number of citation styles (APA, MLA, CSE, endnotes, footnotes, etc.) which can be added to Google Docs, Microsoft Word and Libre Office.
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