Alex Griffin is a white trans woman, social worker, and community activist based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In this oral history interview, Griffin discusses the impact of her upbringing and education on her politics, her first forays into, experiences within, and thoughts on trans politics, community organizing, and direct action, her experienc...
Natalie Baker shares her experiences of living during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. She recalls hearing about the novel coronavirus in the very early months and explains that she had some disbelief about its seriousness at the time. She lists her main news sources, including the daily reading of El País [Spanish language daily newspaper, ba...
Creator:
Baker, Natalie
Contributor:
Spehar, Elizabeth
Created:
2020-10-02
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Salaam F. Witherspoon shares her experiences living during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. She recalls first hearing about the novel coronavirus on Facebook and that she initially thought it was a joke. She recounts the days when the schools were closing and the churches were closing, as the time she realized it was real. She has since known ...
Creator:
Witherspoon, Salaam F.
Contributor:
Spehar, Elizabeth
Created:
2020-10-02
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Israel Malachi shares some of his experiences during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. He recalls driving cross-country in late January, listening to the radio, and hearing about the novel coronavirus outbreak in China. He says he had just been at a North American Music Manufacturers [NAMM] show in Los Angeles, California, and had interacted wi...
Creator:
Malachi, Israel
Contributor:
Nicklawske, Mark
Created:
2020-10-01
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Kathy McTavish shares her experiences as an artist living and working during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. She speaks about the early days when awareness of the novel coronavirus was increasing in the United States and how this impacted her artistic events, deadlines, and interactions. She describes moving her creative work to online format...
Creator:
McTavish, Kathy
Contributor:
O'Brien, Christopher
Created:
2020-10-01
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Sheila Packa shares her experiences living during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. She talks about the early months of 2020 when she first heard about the novel coronavirus. She tells us that she keeps a journal and refers to it when she is looking back and reflecting on these early days. She talks about her partner, Kathy, and their decision ...
Creator:
Packa, Sheila
Contributor:
O'Brien, Christopher
Created:
2020-10-01
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Photographs from University of Minnesota Duluth Theatre’s 2020 production of Henry V. Run dates: September 24-October 3, 2020. Venue: Ordean Court. This production was performed outdoors and the actors all wore masks due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This was the first theatre production held after UMD students were sent home due to COVID-19 in Marc...
Creator:
Cowardin, David
Created:
2020-10
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
The students are unidentified. These photographs were produced by the office of University Marketing and Public Relations in the Fall of 2020 and released in the Spring of 2021, when there was a mask mandate on the University of Minnesota Duluth campus.
Creator:
University Marketing and Public Relations (UMPR), University of Minnesota Duluth
Created:
2020-10
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Students studying and socializing in the Kirby Student Center. All of them are wearing face masks. The students are unidentified. Many of them are wearing UMD-branded face masks and apparel. These photographs were produced by the office of University Marketing and Public Relations in the Fall of 2020 and released in the Spring of 2021, when ther...
Creator:
University Marketing and Public Relations (UMPR), University of Minnesota Duluth
Created:
2020-10
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Students are shown throughout the disk golf course on the UMD campus. The sculpture "Wild Ricing Moon," designed by John David Mooney, is visible in some of the photographs. The students are unidentified. These photographs were produced by the office of University Marketing and Public Relations in the Fall of 2020 and released in the Spring of 2...
Creator:
University Marketing and Public Relations (UMPR), University of Minnesota Duluth
Created:
2020-10
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Locations include Kirby Terrance and Ordean Court. The students are unidentified. Many of them are wearing UMD-branded face masks and apparel. These photographs were produced by the office of University Marketing and Public Relations in the Fall of 2020 and released in the Spring of 2021, when there was a mask mandate on the University of Minnes...
Creator:
University Marketing and Public Relations (UMPR), University of Minnesota Duluth
Created:
2020-10
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
The students are outdoors near the Labovitz School of Business and Economics. They are unidentified. These photographs were produced by the office of University Marketing and Public Relations in the Fall of 2020 and released in the Spring of 2021, when there was a mask mandate on the University of Minnesota Duluth campus.
Creator:
University Marketing and Public Relations (UMPR), University of Minnesota Duluth
Created:
2020-10
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Walter Kohlstrunk was born in Germany in 1892. He served in the German army from 1910-1912. When he was released, he worked on a passenger steamship to travel the world. When Germany entered World War I and recalled its former soldiers to fight, Walter did not want to go and left his ship in New York City. He later settled in New Jersey, married...
Creator:
Elyssa Bisoski
Created:
2020-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
We address two important subproblems of Structure from Motion Problem. The first subproblem is known as Multi-way Matching, where the input includes multiple sets, with the same number of objects and noisy measurements of fixed one-to-one correspondence maps between the objects of each pair of sets. Given only noisy measurements of the mutual co...
Creator:
Huroyan, Vahan (University of Arizona)
Created:
2020-09-29
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Christopher J. Cuevas is an Indigenous-Latinx, non-binary community organizer, educator, and peace practitioner based in Orlando, Florida. Since co-founding the organization in 2016 following the Pulse nightclub shooting, Cuevas has served as the executive director of QLatinx, a racial, social, and gender justice movement working toward the adva...
Pam Melby shares her experiences of living in Finland, Minnesota during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. She begins the interview talking about the food and craft items that she and her husband make and sell locally at a farmer’s market and at the Finland Co-op. She describes how she first heard about the pandemic and that she and her family d...
Creator:
Melby, Pam
Contributor:
O'Brien, Christopher
Created:
2020-09-28
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Shannon Walz shares her experiences living and working during the COVID-19 pandemic. She remembers the precautionary measures implemented while working at an environmental learning camp in the state of Washington over ten years ago during the H1N1 flu outbreak. Based on that experience she recounts her reaction to COVID-19 in the early days of t...
Creator:
Walz, Shannon
Contributor:
O'Brien, Christopher
Created:
2020-09-28
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Tiffani Skroch shares her experiences as a college student living and working during the COVID-19 pandemic. She recalls sitting in class when her Apple Watch buzzed with a news update about Coronavirus numbers rising, and remembers this moment to be the one when she took more seriously what was happening. She lists some of the mainstream news so...
Creator:
Skroch, Tiffani
Contributor:
Nicklawske, Mark
Created:
2020-09-25
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Each of these three posters contains a piece of digital art exploring an aspect of life during the COVID-19 pandemic. The creator describes the posters in the following way: "These are a collection of my experiences between March 16th, 2020 until today (September 24th, 2020)." The first poster contains many colorful, overlapping social media ico...
Creator:
Ball, Ashley
Created:
2020-09-24
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This essay by a University of Minnesota Duluth faculty member documents the day of September 23, 2020, six months into the COVID-19 pandemic. It is written in the style of a timeline, with activities described along with the time of day they occur. Included are details about working from home, assisting children with online schooling, exercise, ...
Creator:
Dauner, Kim
Created:
2020-09-23
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Devon Fredrickson shares her experiences of life and being a mom during the time of COVID-19. She tells us she first heard about the novel coronavirus while she was working for a company that hosts shows for clothing buyers. She says that the participants from factories in China weren't able to attend due to the travel ban that was implemented b...
Creator:
Fredrickson, Devon
Contributor:
Jacobson, Katie
Created:
2020-09-23
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Mara Hursey shares her experiences in work and life with a new baby under the COVID-19 pandemic. She recalls first hearing about the virus when it was overseas and not worrying about it very much. At the beginning of the pandemic, as a manager at her place of work, she tried to calm people down, but as it got closer to home, she became more and ...
Creator:
Hursey, Mara
Contributor:
Jacobson, Katie
Created:
2020-09-23
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This poster contains a digital drawing of a nurse wearing a face mask, white coat, gloves, and hair cap. The nurse also has a pair of white wings. Large text at the top of the poster reads: "Nurses, the real 2020 Heros [sic]". Small text on one of the wings reads: "When the pandemic hit in 2020, our health care workers were thrown ontop [sic] th...
Creator:
Kobussen, Samantha
Created:
2020-09-21
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Each of these three posters contains a piece of digital art exploring ways to limit the spread of COVID-19. The first poster shows two black outlines of the state of Minnesota. One is labeled "HOME". The other has a blue face mask over the Arrowhead region and is labeled "HOPE". Text at the bottom of the poster reads: "Minnesota is our home. Wea...
Creator:
Weiers, Gavin
Created:
2020-09-21
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Each of these three posters contains a piece of digital art depicting an aspect of life during the COVID-19 pandemic. The creator describes the pieces as showing "a student's perspective on the crisis." The first poster shows drawings of a mask, hands being washed in a sink, and a bottle of hand sanitizer, with the words "STOP THE SPREAD" next t...
Creator:
Aspling, Jace
Created:
2020-09-21
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Each of these three posters contains a piece of digital art depicting an aspect of life during the COVID-19 pandemic. The first poster is a digital drawing of three green stylized human figures wearing blue hats and scarves, with text above them reading: "If you can wear these..." Another similar figure wearing a blue face mask is below them, wi...
Creator:
Lemmon, Adison
Created:
2020-09-21
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Each of these three posters contains a piece of digital art depicting an aspect of life during the COVID-19 pandemic. The first poster is a black-and-white worksheet that Bartels "created for children to describe in pictures how they feel corona will affect Christmas" (her own words). The worksheet is titled "CORONA CHRISTMAS" and contains 3 box...
Creator:
Bartels, Aly
Created:
2020-09-21
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Each of these three posters contains a piece of digital art depicting an aspect of life during the COVID-19 pandemic. The creator describes the posters in the following way: "The assignment depicts notions and the subject of Covid-19 during the year of 2020. We wanted to create a recollection of images/illustrations for the archive and for futur...
Creator:
Skinner, Will
Created:
2020-09-21
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Each of these three posters contains a piece of digital art exploring the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. The first poster is titled "The Invisible Enemy" and contains a digital drawing of a bright green cartoon coronavirus molecule with a grinning face, and a lit fuse as though it is a bomb. Text at the bottom of the poster reads: "To beat Co...
Creator:
Ford, Haley
Created:
2020-09-21
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Each of these three posters contains a piece of digital art depicting something the creator noticed during the COVID-19 pandemic. The first poster shows a digital drawing of a worm on a hook. The worm is wearing a face mask. Text on the poster reads: "114,000 more fishing licenses sold in 2020 than 2019 in MN". The second poster shows a dotted l...
Creator:
Sande, Dylan
Created:
2020-09-21
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Each of these three posters contains a piece of art and a paragraph that act as a digital journal entry about something the creator has experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic. The first poster shows a photograph of a small cake with bright blue frosting and colorful sprinkles, and the name "Dave Grohl" written on it in yellow frosting. In the ...
Creator:
Rothwell, Emma
Created:
2020-09-21
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Each of these three posters contains a piece of digital art depicting an aspect of life during the COVID-19 pandemic. The first poster, titled "Slow Down", shows an original pencil sketch by the artist of a desk and chair placed indoors in front of a window, with houseplants around it. The words "slow down" are written above the desk. The second...
Creator:
Prigge, Emily
Created:
2020-09-21
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Each of these three posters contains a piece of digital art offering a safety tip or exploring an aspect of life during the COVID-19 pandemic. The first poster shows the planet earth on a black background, with three green face masks covering part of its surface. The face masks form a triangle, which is reminiscent of the symbol for recycling. W...
Creator:
McDonald, Olivia
Created:
2020-09-20
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Each of these three posters contains a piece of digital art exploring the creator's thoughts and things he has noticed during the COVID-19 pandemic. The first poster is a black-and-white line drawing of a human figure surrounded by scribbled lines. The figure has a hole in its chest. Text below the image reads: "Getting Eaten By The Pandemic" an...
Creator:
Vang, Ethan
Created:
2020-09-19
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Undirected graphical models are widely used in science to represent structured high-dimensional joint probabilities. We focus our attention on the inverse problem of learning a discrete graphical model given i.i.d. samples from its distribution. In the first part of the presentation, we show that the inverse problem can be solved exactly and eff...
Creator:
Vuffray, Marc (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Created:
2020-09-18
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Gaussian Graphical models have wide-ranging applications in machine learning and the natural and social sciences where they are one of the most popular ways to model statistical relationships between observed variables. In most of the settings in which they are applied, the number of observed samples is much smaller than the dimension and the go...
Creator:
Meka, Raghu (University of California, Los Angeles)
Created:
2020-09-18
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Graphical models are a rich language for describing high-dimensional distributions in terms of their dependence structure. While there are algorithms with provable guarantees for learning undirected graphical models in a variety of settings, there has been much less progress in the important scenario when there are latent variables, which is the...
Creator:
Moitra, Ankur (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Created:
2020-09-18
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Each of these three posters contains a piece of digital art depicting an aspect of life during the COVID-19 pandemic. The first poster, titled "BORED IN EVERY SQUARE", shows a digital drawing of a laptop computer with a Zoom meeting grid on the screen. Text below the image reads: "The coronavirus forces school to be taught online. I have never s...
Creator:
Schwantz, Cassandra
Created:
2020-09-18
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Each of these three posters contains a piece of digital art exploring an aspect of life during the COVID-19 pandemic. The first poster shows a damaged bike tire on a gray background. Handwritten black text near the tire reads: "Hissssss" and "2020". Text at the bottom of the poster reads: "Due to Covid I bought a mountain bike! I hit the trails ...
Creator:
Nardecchia, Matt
Created:
2020-09-18
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
In the last few years, several papers have leveraged a connection between graph cuts and total variation to derive nonlinear relaxations of combinatorially hard problems, which yield algorithms that have proved to be effective, scalable, and theoretically tractable. In particular, Hu et al. showed that the modularity maximization problem that is...
Creator:
Boyd, Zach (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Created:
2020-09-17
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
The talk is divided into two parts. In the first part we review L-infinity type variational problems on graphs which are motivated by applications in (semi-supervised) machine learning. In particular, we study ground states of the sup-norm of the gradient, characterize them as distance functions and relate them to the asymptotic behavior of the ...
Creator:
Bungert, Leon (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg); Roith, Tim (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)
Created:
2020-09-17
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Neural networks have revolutionized machine learning and artificial intelligence in unprecedented ways, establishing new benchmarks in performance in applications such as image recognition and language processing. Such success has motivated researchers and practitioners in multiple fields to develop further applications. This environment has dri...
Creator:
Garcia Trillos, Nicolas (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Created:
2020-09-17
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Each of these three posters contains a piece of digital art depicting an aspect of life during the COVID-19 pandemic. The creator describes the posters in the following way: "These images were made by me through my experience with living in these times. I have noticed all the conspiracy theories that come out, the addition of masks to your 'what...
Creator:
Adams, Rebecca
Created:
2020-09-17
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Each of these three posters contains a piece of digital art depicting an aspect of life during the COVID-19 pandemic. The creator describes the posters in the following way: "My first composition is surrounding the many voices I've heard on social media, protests, etc. My second composition is a timeline of my emotions within quarantine/lockdown...
Creator:
Simmering, Maya
Created:
2020-09-17
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Each of these three posters contains a piece of digital art depicting an aspect of life during the COVID-19 pandemic. The first poster shows three drawings of a sporting event. The first drawing shows a scoreboard. The second shows fans wearing face masks with the word "x silence x" above them. The third drawing shows two football players with s...
Creator:
Murdeshwar, Mihika
Created:
2020-09-17
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Each of these three posters contains a piece of digital art and a title describing an aspect of life during the COVID-19 pandemic. The first poster shows two sketches of a face wearing a mask. In one of the drawings, the eyes are crinkled to suggest that the person is smiling. The title reads: "Smile with your Eyes." The second poster shows a li...
Creator:
Bolster, Kendra
Created:
2020-09-17
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Each of these three posters contains a piece of digital art related to wearing face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic. The first poster is a collage of black-and-white photographs of face masks discarded on the ground in various locations. Text over the images reads: "Don't Be Wasteful". Text at the bottom of the poster reads: "Everytime [sic] ...
Creator:
Kuzas, Emma
Created:
2020-09-17
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Each of these three posters contains a piece of digital art related to a societal problem that the creator has noticed or been thinking about during 2020 and the COVID-19 pandemic. The creator describes the project: "Each file contains elements of 2020 that I have noticed, and things that need to change." The first poster is on the theme of "Sex...
Creator:
Brown, Samantha
Created:
2020-09-17
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Each of these three posters contains a piece of digital art depicting business signs, realistic and imagined, during the COVID-19 pandemic. The first poster shows a line drawing of a theatre-like building with a blue and white marquee sign, a pink door, and a yellow awning. The sign reads: "America Temporarily Closed." The second poster shows li...
Creator:
Johnson, Lydia
Created:
2020-09-17
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Each of these two posters contains a photograph exploring an aspect of life during the COVID-19 pandemic, with accompanying text. The creator describes the posters in the following way: "These are pieces I made on COVID-19 topics that I have thought about throughout this pandemic. The first piece is a picture of me with a mask that has very stre...
Creator:
Krug, Joshua
Created:
2020-09-17
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
