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Abby Zumbrunnen and Anupama Rao, two peer research consultants, pose for a candid portrait at Walter Library on Friday, Sept. 22, 2023. (Photo/Adria Carpenter)

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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

Quentin Francis, director of youth development at the Ann Arbor YMCA in Michigan, takes a moment to think during the fellowship program on Wednesday, April 17, 2024. (Photo/Adria Carpenter)

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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

Steven Bleau leading a 3D printing workshop in the Makerspace

Health Sciences Libraries News

Makerspace Lab Manager Wins Competition and Discusses Role of Makerspaces in Start-Ups

Congratulations to Makerspace lab manager Steven Bleau who, alongside his business partner Morgan Kerfeld, won…

Emerson IronstoneMay 20, 2024

Julliette Dannucci learns about the racial covenant on her home with Rebecca Gillette, the Mapping Prejudice community engagement lead, at Sanborn Park in Robbinsdale, Minnesota, on Friday, May 3, 2024. (Photo/Adria Carpenter)

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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

News The Toaster Blog

Undergraduate innovators to showcase their MVP at Founders Day

The University of Minnesota MVP (Minimum Viable Product) Challenge showcase is coming up on May…

Ai-Quynh Bui — Toaster AmbassadorApril 26, 2024

"I was arrested for taking this railway scene. Starved peasants wait weeklong for trains to some objective they vainly imagine is the Promised Land where they may find enough food to keep alive," wrote photographer James Abbe. Image reproduced courtesy of The James Abbe Archive.

Immigration History Research Center Archives News

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

Alatheia Proue uses the Embodied Labs app in the Virtual Reality Studio to learn about dementia and Alzheimer's disease, on Friday, January 5, 2024. (Photo/Adria Carpenter)

Health Sciences Libraries News

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

Two students work on laptops. One is looking at an Arduino code page, and the other is designing an LED matrix pattern in a heart shape. An LED matrix showing an asterisk pattern is plugged in to one of the laptops.

Health Sciences Libraries News

Libraries makerspaces partner with Science Museum to explore intersections of race and engineering

Students creating LED matrix patterns on Saturday, March 16, 2024. (Photo/ Emerson Ironstone) Staff from…

Emerson IronstoneApril 1, 2024

Portrait of Dora Zaidenweber by Spanish artist Félix de la Concha for his series "Portraying Memories: Portraits and Conversations with Survivors of the Shoah."

Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives News

‘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

Givens Collection News

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

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Three exceptional student employees who keep the Libraries running

YMCA history fellows are ‘creating a usable past’ for boys and young men of color

Makerspace Lab Manager Wins Competition and Discusses Role of Makerspaces in Start-Ups

The Sanborn family brought racial covenants to Robbinsdale. Now the city is renaming Sanborn Park

Undergraduate innovators to showcase their MVP at Founders Day

Breaking the silence: a new documentary grapples with the Holodomor’s legacy in Minnesota

Learning how to treat Alzheimer’s disease with Virtual Reality

Libraries makerspaces partner with Science Museum to explore intersections of race and engineering

‘A story of resilience’: Documenting the lives of Minnesota Holocaust survivors

Piecing together the lives of formerly enslaved people

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