"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.
Are you thinking about publishing a journal article? Have you heard about impact factors, h-indexes, or other metrics used to describe a researcher's work or a journals impact? Do you know what these numbers actually mean? This workshop will explain journal-level and author-level metrics and discuss what they can—and can't say—about the quality of research.
Get an introduction to how generative AI tools (e.g. Chat GPT, Google Gemini, Copilot, etc.) work, the pros and cons of using and tips for potentially incorporating them into your research and writing practice.
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 which can be added to Google Docs, Microsoft Word and Libre Office. We will send a zoom link to students who are registered the day before the workshop.
 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!