This digital sign was displayed on the University of Minnesota Duluth campus. It is titled "Why I Got The Vax..." and includes a photograph of UMD student Eli Sailer-Haugland, Senior, Computer Science, Mathematics. Also included is a quote from Eli: "I have decided to get vaccinated to protect the health of not only myself, but my community. I e...
Creator:
University of Minnesota Duluth
Created:
2021
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This digital sign was displayed on the University of Minnesota Duluth campus. It is titled "Why I Got The Vax..." and includes a photograph of UMD student Jordyn Thomas, Senior, Biology, Psychology. Also included is a quote from Jordyn: "I chose to get the Covid vaccine because I believe in the science that created it, in protecting those around...
Creator:
University of Minnesota Duluth
Created:
2021
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This digital sign was displayed on the University of Minnesota Duluth campus. It is titled "Why I Got The Vax..." and includes a photograph of UMD student Shannon King, Graduate Student, Chemistry. Also included is a quote from Shannon: "I chose to get vaccinated in order to protect my family, friends and most of all, our community. I wanted to ...
Creator:
University of Minnesota Duluth
Created:
2021
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This is an episode of the Causenetic podcast, created by staff members of the YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas from 2019 to 2023. The podcast focused on promoting awareness of the YMCA’s mission to new audiences and providing conversation, inspiration, and influence on various timely community topics. The description that accompanied this Causenetic ...
Creator:
Ross, Rodrigua; Vinson, Keith
Contributor:
Leonard, La Shae; Frederick, David; YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas
Created:
2020-12-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
This is an episode of the Causenetic podcast, created by staff members of the YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas from 2019 to 2023. The podcast focused on promoting awareness of the YMCA’s mission to new audiences and providing conversation, inspiration, and influence on various timely community topics. The description that accompanied this Causenetic ...
Creator:
Ross, Rodrigua; Vinson, Keith
Contributor:
Leonard, La Shae; Frederick, David; YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas
Created:
2020-12-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
Lee Andel Dewey is a white nonbinary organizer, HIV/AIDS activist, and abolitionist based in Chicago. They are the founder of LADhoc Accounting, a business providing sliding-scale-to-free accounting, bookkeeping, and consultation servivces to BIPOC- and queer and trans-focused political groups and community organizations. At the time of this int...
Creator:
Dewey, Lee Andel (interviewee)
Contributor:
Beam, Myrl (interviewer); Billund-Phibbs, Myra (project manager and transcriber)
Created:
2020-12-18
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
This item contains two posters and a sketch related to life during the COVID-19 pandemic. The first poster is titled "Always Laying Around" and contains a three-panel digital drawing. In each of the three panels, a person is sleeping, lying on their back with headphones on, and lying on their stomach looking at a laptop computer. The second page...
Creator:
Johnson, Lydia
Created:
2020-12-16
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This item contains two posters exploring life during the COVID-19 pandemic, with an emphasis on issues related to wearing face masks. The first poster contains a digital drawing of many light blue and white face masks, with lines and small colorful hearts surrounding them. The digital drawing is set against a background of a close-up photograph ...
Creator:
Dvergsten, Faith
Created:
2020-12-16
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This item contains two posters and eleven pages of sketches in a notebook, all related to life during the COVID-19 pandemic. The creator describes the piece: "Digital illustrations and designs created based on the experiences dealing with covid. The later pages in the pdf are the process drawings that got to the final designs and the last 6 page...
Creator:
Wood, Josiah
Created:
2020-12-16
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This item contains two posters and seven pages of sketches in a notebook, all related to life during the COVID-19 pandemic. The creator describes the piece: "These images are my own hindsights about Covid. They [...] deal with my experience of the online semester during a global pandemic, mental illness, unemployment, etc." The first poster cont...
Creator:
Adams, Rebecca
Created:
2020-12-16
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
A common observation in data-driven applications is that high dimensional data has a low intrinsic dimension, at least locally. Thus, when one wishes to work with data that is not governed by a clear set of equations, but still wishes to perform statistical or other scientific analysis, an optional model is the assumption of an underlying manifo...
Creator:
Sober, Barak (Duke University)
Created:
2020-12-15
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
This is an episode of the Causenetic podcast, created by staff members of the YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas from 2019 to 2023. The podcast focused on promoting awareness of the YMCA’s mission to new audiences and providing conversation, inspiration, and influence on various timely community topics. The description that accompanied this Causenetic ...
Creator:
Ross, Rodrigua; Vinson, Keith
Contributor:
Leonard, La Shae; Frederick, David; YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas
Created:
2020-12-14
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
This item contains two posters and four photographs of sketches in a notebook, all exploring aspects of life and going out in public during the COVID-19 pandemic. The first poster is titled "WATCH OUT FOR THESE PEOPLE." It contains a digital drawing of a line graph. The x-axis is labeled: "Chances you'll be extremely agitated" and the y-axis is ...
Creator:
Brown, Samantha
Created:
2020-12-13
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This item contains two posters and three photographs of sketches in a notebook, all exploring aspects of life during the COVID-19 pandemic. The creator describes the posters in the following way: "The project focused on noticing from this year of 2020, I played on the fact of clothes you could grow in a pill and if Jake from StateFarm offered yo...
Creator:
Skinner, Will
Created:
2020-12-12
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Compartmental models for epidemiological modeling are a classic tool. In this talk I will share work we did to understand the effects of various testing strategies using a straightforward SIR model. I will also cover an extension to the typical SIR model to account for geographic heterogeneity and the incorporation of mobility data. Natalie She...
Creator:
Sheils, Natalie (UnitedHealth Group)
Created:
2020-12-11
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Kat Purcell is a white (irish famine diaspora) non-binary trans performer, lighting designer, installation artist, producer, director, and street activist based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. At the time of this interview, they were a Q-STAGE Fellow with 20% Theatre Company, a Twin Cities company promoting experimental work by women and queer and tr...
This item contains two posters and three photographs of sketches in a notebook, all exploring aspects of life during the COVID-19 pandemic. The first poster contains the word "Corona" in large orange text, and a photograph of the creator looking at a picture on her phone of herself and two friends. Text at the bottom of the poster reads: "1 Year...
Creator:
Schwantz, Cassandra
Created:
2020-12-09
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This is an episode of the Causenetic podcast, created by staff members of the YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas from 2019 to 2023. The podcast focused on promoting awareness of the YMCA’s mission to new audiences and providing conversation, inspiration, and influence on various timely community topics. The description that accompanied this Causenetic ...
Creator:
Ross, Rodrigua; Vinson, Keith
Contributor:
Leonard, La Shae; Frederick, David; YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas
Created:
2020-12-07
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
Wahira LaBelle is a trans fem queer of Somali descent, community organizer, migrant justice activist, and advocate based in California. At the time of this interview, she was the Bay Area organizer for the Black LGBTQIA+ Migrant Project (BLMP) and the founder of its associated group Black Trans Migrants United (BTMU,) as well as an advocate and ...
Dan Stocke shares his experiences of living during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. He talks about the outlets he turns to for news and current events. He mentions that his news consumption has increased this year, but he attributes this to the presidential election year rather than COVID-19. He speaks about disinformation, bias in the media, ...
Creator:
Stocke, Dan
Contributor:
Thomas, Blake
Created:
2020-12-05
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Grecia Magdaleno is a Latinx non-binary advocate, organizer, and interdisciplinary artist based in Chicago, Illinois. At the time of this interview, they were the Policy and Adovcacy Manager for the Illinois Safe Schools Alliance, a program of the Public Health Institute of Metropolitan Chicago that uses education, advocacy, and youth organizing...
TK Morton is a Black queer trans higher education professional, advocate, and activist based in St. Paul, Minnesota. At the time of this interview, ze was the Assistant Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Macalester College, where ze worked to support and advocate for queer and trans BIPOC students. Prior to zir work at Macalester, M...
Creator:
Morton, Tristan "TK" (interviewee)
Contributor:
Nava, Rio Osorio (interviewer); Tierney, Oli (interviewer); Billund-Phibbs, Myra (project manager); Chamness, Daria (transcriber)
Created:
2020-12-04
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Chase Strangio is a white transmasculine attorney and activist. At the time of this interview, he was a staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and served as Deputy Director for Trans Justice of the organization's LGBT & HIV Project. Prior to joining the ACLU, Strangio worked at the Sylvia Rivera Law Project in New York Cit...
Emmett Schelling is a transmasculine activist based in San Antonio, Texas. At the time of this interview, Schelling was the Executive Director of the Transgender Education Network of Texas [TENT,] the largest trans advocacy and education organization in the state. Additionally, he served on the Community Council for Transform Houston, as a board...
The etcher/engraver Jacques Callot printed the second state of Les Misères et malheurs de la guerre in 1633. These images are in the public domain and the originals are held by Minneapolis Institute of Art (https://new.artsmia.org/.) They are presented here in their entirety and in order, because viewing them together and as an ordered series sh...
In this Christmas letter to family and friends, Celia Domich reflects on the past year and how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected her life. Celia lives alone with her dog, Banks. The letter is full of humor, as Celia notes that she has had some COVID symptoms, such as brain fog and fatigue, for years, and that at the beginning of the pandemic sh...
Creator:
Domich, Celia A.
Created:
2020-12
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Photographs, poetry, musings, quotes, and a featured story are included in this mixed media digital zine created by Christopher O’Brien, who lives and works in the small, rural town of Finland, Minnesota. In his own words, Christopher describes his creative project in this way: “’A Space Between Seasons’ is a digital zine consisting of photos, v...
Creator:
O'Brien, Christopher
Created:
2020-12
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This script and storyboard were written by Blake Thomas and created with the intention of being produced by the performers of Take It With You, the nonprofit organization that produces hour-long, originally scripted, live radio theatre podcasts. These productions include voice actors, original music, and sound effects and are normally performed ...
Creator:
Thomas, Blake
Created:
2020-12
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This is the forth in a series of four podcasts that journalist Paul Lundgren created from interviews he conducted for the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant funded project, Stories of Wisdom from Bodies in Separation (SWaBS). For this project, Paul interviewed a number of business owners from the Lincoln Park Craft District in Dul...
Creator:
Lundgren, Paul
Created:
2020-12
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
The creators describe this item: "Winter evenings during pandemics can get long, so we decided to rewrite some familiar Christmas carols. We sent them to family and friends." The re-written Christmas carols have sometimes humorous lyrics related to the pandemic, and many include sheet music. The original carols are "Twelve Days of Christmas," "...
Creator:
Rauvola, Suzanne; Rauvola, Brian
Created:
2020-12
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Photographs from University of Minnesota Duluth Theatre’s 2020 dance concert, DanceWorks 2020. Run dates: December 17-20, 2020. Venue: Virtual. This production was performed virtually and the participants all wore masks due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Images are from the following dances in this order: Medicine (2), Mercurial (2), Re-Entry (1), Rh...
Creator:
Katz Harwood, Rebecca
Created:
2020-12
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This is a multimedia project created by Elizabeth Spehar featuring photographs, paintings, drawings, and text. Their nonfiction writing includes journal entries, personal reflections, explanations, descriptions, and philosophical explorations. Elizabeth shares their personal story through multiple themes and topics related to the “bodymind” incl...
Creator:
Spehar, Elizabeth
Created:
2020-12
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This is the first in a series of four podcasts that journalist Paul Lundgren created from interviews he conducted for the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant funded project, Stories of Wisdom from Bodies in Separation (SWaBS). For this project, Paul interviewed a number of business owners from the Lincoln Park Craft District in Dul...
Creator:
Lundgren, Paul
Created:
2020-12
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This is the third in a series of four podcasts that journalist Paul Lundgren created from interviews he conducted for the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant funded project, Stories of Wisdom from Bodies in Separation (SWaBS). For this project, Paul interviewed a number of business owners from the Lincoln Park Craft District in Dul...
Creator:
Lundgren, Paul
Created:
2020-12
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This is a one-act play for stage or screen, 30 to 40 minutes in length, written by playwright Katie Jacobson. The play features a woman in her thirties navigating life during the pandemic. It begins and ends with the subject in the central location of her home. The only communication she has with others during the play is with her roommate in an...
Creator:
Jacobson, Katie
Created:
2020-12
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Brandi Moxley’s creative writing project includes a forward, prelude, thirteen numbered segments, and an epilogue. In the forward to her project, Brandi says, “These are a series of portraits of life as it unfolded in the year 2020.” Each of the thirteen segments offer a short narrative story with different people experiencing a moment in their ...
Creator:
Moxley, Brandi
Created:
2020-12
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Each of these two posters contains a piece of digital art depicting an aspect of life during the COVID-19 pandemic. The first poster contains a digital drawing of a man sitting in a translucent box in a grassy field. The text at the top of the poster reads: "Increasing feeling of isolation as we continued to limit contact with people outside our...
Creator:
Womeldorff, Trent
Created:
2020-12
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This item contains two posters exploring aspects of life during the COVID-19 pandemic. The creator describes the posters: "These represent how I think and feel after almost a year of the pandemic." The first poster is a colorful digital drawing of an interior space with a window looking out on a blue sky, several potted plants on the windowsill ...
Creator:
Ball, Ashley
Created:
2020-12
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This item contains two posters and two photographs of sketches in a notebook, all exploring aspects of life during the COVID-19 pandemic related to wearing face masks. The first poster is titled "The American Threat," and contains a drawing of a face mask with a large knife stabbing through it. Text at the bottom of the poster reads: "The amount...
Creator:
McDonald, Olivia
Created:
2020-12
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
In this essay, Mark Nicklawske describes his early March 2020 trip from Duluth to New York City with his wife, Jen. He was on a writing assignment for the Duluth News Tribune to cover the opening night Broadway production of “Girl From The North Country” by Irish playwright Conor McPherson, a play set in Duluth, Minnesota and based on the songs ...
Creator:
Nicklawske, Mark
Created:
2020-12
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This item contains two posters exploring aspects of life during the COVID-19 pandemic. The first poster contains a digital drawing of a face mask with six faces on it. Text above and below the face mask reads: "keep a small circle." The second poster contains a digital drawing of paper hearts and the words "STAY STRONG" in a window. Text at the ...
Creator:
Simmering, Maya
Created:
2020-12
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This item contains three posters and six images of sketches in a notebook, all exploring aspects of life during the COVID-19 pandemic. The sketches are ideas and early drafts for this assignment, and are presented alongside the posters. The creator provided a description for this item: "Each composition represents a different phase of the Corona...
Creator:
Riechel, Stephen
Created:
2020-12
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This item contains three posters and six images of sketches in a notebook, all exploring aspects of life during the COVID-19 pandemic. The sketches are ideas and early drafts for this assignment, and are presented alongside the posters. The creator provided a description for this item: "Each composition represents a different phase of the Corona...
Creator:
Livermont, Beca
Created:
2020-12
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This item contains two posters and two photographs of sketches in a notebook, all exploring aspects of life during the COVID-19 pandemic. The first poster contains several small digital drawings of a gray cat and a blue and purple "cat communicator," an imaginary device with a screen and three buttons. Text in a handwriting font reads: "My cats ...
Creator:
Murdeshwar, Mihika
Created:
2020-12
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This item contains two posters and three photographs of sketches in a notebook, all exploring aspects of life during the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly in the winter season. The first poster contains a digital drawing of a Christmas tree decorated with face masks and coronavirus particles. At the top if the tree is a roll of toilet paper. Text ...
Creator:
Maynard, Samantha
Created:
2020-12
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This item contains three posters and three pages of sketches in a notebook, all exploring aspects of life during the COVID-19 pandemic. The first poster contains a digital drawing of a pair of hands holding several papers, one of which is marked with a large red F. Text beneath the image reads "HOMEWORK HOMEWORK HOMEWORK." The second poster cont...
Creator:
Manecke, Lillie
Created:
2020-12
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This item contains two posters and three pages of sketches in a notebook, all exploring aspects of life during the COVID-19 pandemic. The sketches are ideas and early drafts for this assignment. The item also contains title pages. The first page is a title page which reads: "2020 HINDSIGHT: NOTICINGS." The second page contains two photographs of...
Creator:
Bolster, Kendra
Created:
2020-12
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
