This sign was found on the exterior double door of Kirby Plaza on the University of Minnesota Duluth campus on the day UMN System President Joan Gabel announced a system-wide COVID-19 vaccine requirement for faculty, staff, and students. The sign is written with yellow marker on white paper.
Created:
2021-08
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This photo was taken in the Spring of 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic. The sign reads: "HEALTH SCREENING CHECKLIST" and includes a list of possible symptoms of COVID-19. A student employee wearing a face mask is seated behind the plexiglass.
Created:
2021-03-23
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Henry Chacon Arevalo was born in Honduras in 2004. His dad moved to the U.S. when he was 2 months old and Henry was able to move there with him when he was 13.
Creator:
Chacon Arevalo, Henry Jeovany
Contributor:
Rolland, Isabella
Created:
2021-09-25
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Adrian Lowe is a white male activist, organizer, and prison abolitionist based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. At the time of this interview, he was a Senior Staff Attorney at the AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania and a community organizer with Hearts on a Wire, a grassroots organization he co-founded that supports transgender incarcerated people ...
Andy Marra is a Korean-American trans woman, activist, educator, and public policy advocate based in New York City. At the time of this interview, she was the Executive Director of the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund (TLDEF,) an advocacy and legal services organization serving and lobbying for trans and gender nonconforming people. ...
Beau Larsen is a white trans educator, scholar, and forensics coach based in St. Paul, Minnesota. At the time of this interview, they were the Director of Forensics at Macalester College, where they directed and coached the mock trial, ethics bowl, and debate teams. Prior to their work at Macalester, Larsen was a graduate student and debate coac...
Bran Fenner is a Black transmasculine activist, consultant, educator, and ER and hospice nurse based in Brooklyn, New York. At the time of this interview, he was Director of People and Organizational Culture at the Transgender Law Center. Prior to his work at TLC, Fenner was the founder of the Education for Liberation Project, a co-director of F...
Canyon Carballosa is a white Cuban queer trans nonbinary dancer and movement maker based in Los Angeles. At the time of this oral history interview, they were working as a professional dancer, choreographer, and Youth Protection Advocates in Dance (YPAD)-educated dance instructor. In this oral history interview with Macalester College students H...
Debra DeBruin is Interim Director, Associate Professor, and Director of Graduate Studies for the Center for Bioethics at the University of Minnesota, the co-leader of the Minnesota COVID Ethics Collaborative, and a member of the MDH's COVID-19 Vaccine Allocation Advisory Group. In this oral history interview, she discusses the role of bioethics ...
Creator:
DeBruin, Debra (interviewee)
Contributor:
Negri, Adam (interviewer); Sommer, Barbara W. (interviewer)
Created:
2021-05-25
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Devi Peacock is a South Asian non-binary storyteller, performing artist and community organizer based in Oakland, California. At the time of this interview, they were the founding Artistic and Executive Director of Peacock Rebellion, an Oakland-based BIPOC, queer- and trans-led arts organization, as well as the co-organizer of the Liberated 23rd...
Dominique Morgan is a Black trans woman, prison abolition activist, and artist based in Omaha, Nebraska. At the time of this interview, Morgan was the Executive Director of Black and Pink, a nationwide prison abolitionist organization that provides direct services and support to currently and formerly incarcerated LGBTQIA+ people. Prior to her w...
Dr. Andrew D. Badley is Chair of the Mayo Clinic task force on SARS-CoV2 / COVID-19 research, where he oversees all research activities including clinical trials related to the virus and the disease. In this oral history interview, he discusses organizing the Mayo Clinic task force, research needs, priorities, and challenges relating to the pand...
Creator:
Badley, Dr. Andrew D (interviewee)
Contributor:
Negri, Adam (interviewer); Sommer, Barbara W. (interviewer)
Created:
2021-07-14
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Dr. Marci Bowers is a white woman with a lived trans experience, OB/GYN, and plastic surgeon specializing in gender affirming surgeries. At the time of this interview, she was the president-elect of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH,) and was in surgical practice in Burlingame, California, having previously practic...
Dr. Nathan T. Chomilo is Director of Vaccine Equity at the Minnesota Department of Health, as well as the Medicaid Medical Director for the State of Minnesota, and a General Pediatrician & IM Hospitalist at Park Nicollet. In this oral history interview, he discusses social equity, systemic racism, and the COVID-19 pandemic in Minnesota, critical...
Creator:
Chomilo, Dr. Nathan T (interviewee)
Contributor:
Negri, Adam (interviewer); Sommer, Barbara W. (interviewer)
Created:
2021-06-24
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Dr. Rhys Preston is a white trans man, chiropractor, and trans health activist based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. At the time of this interview, he was practicing at his chiropractic clinic in the Uptown neighborhood of Minneapolis. In addition to his chiropratic work, Preston has taught on topics of anatomy, nutrition, trans health, and holistic ...
Creator:
Preston, Rhys (interviewee)
Contributor:
Billund-Phibbs, Myra (interviewer and project manager); Brenner-Adam, Katherine (transcriber)
Created:
2021-10-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Emerson Steiner Hayward is a white, Ashkenazi Jewish, trans-masc, and nonbinary individual based in St. Paul, Minnesota. In this oral history interview with Macalester College student Sarah Garrett-Engele, Hayward discusses their upbringing and early experiences of gender, their process of transition and coming to understand themself as a trans ...
Creator:
Steiner Hayward, Emerson (interviewee)
Contributor:
Garrett-Engele, Sarah (interviewer); Billund-Phibbs, Myra (project manager)
Created:
2021-11-22
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Hailey A Ockinga is an Alaskan Native / Tlingit trans woman, anti-incarceration activist, and community organizer based in Washington state. At the time of this interview, she was Executive Director of Beyond These Walls, a direct support and political advocacy organization run by and for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated transgender and ge...
Creator:
Ockinga, Hailey (interviewee)
Contributor:
Billund-Phibbs, Myra (interviewer and project manager); Chamness, Daria (transcriber)
Created:
2021-11-08
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Harper Jean Tobin is a white trans woman, consultant, and policymaker based in Washington, D.C. At the time of this interview, she worked as an independent policy consultant and educator around issues of LGBTQ+ civil rights, employment rights, and nondiscrimination. Prior to that work, she led the policy team at the National Center for Transgend...
Jack Martin is a co-founder and director of Southside Harm Reduction Services. Nicholas Henderson is program director of Southside Harm Reduction Services. In this oral history interview, they discuss their initial thoughts on the pandemic in relation to Southside Harm Reduction Services and its programming, HIV/AIDS and COVID-19, the role of Mi...
Creator:
Henderson, Nicholas (interviewee); Martin, Jack (interviewee)
Contributor:
Negri, Adam (interviewer); Sommer, Barbara W. (interviewer)
Created:
2021-09-06
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Jacqueline Ann Dionne is American Indian Health Director and a Tribal Liaison with the Minnesota Department of Health and a member of the MDH's COVID-19 Vaccine Allocation Advisory Group. In this oral history interview, she discusses her initial thoughts about the pandemic for Minnesota's Native American populations, HIV/AIDS and COVID-19, her r...
Creator:
Dionne, Jacqueline Ann (interviewee)
Contributor:
Negri, Adam (interviewer); Sommer, Barbara W. (interviewer)
Created:
2021-08-02
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Jacsen Callanan is a white masculine trans health organizer and educator based in rural Vermont. At the time of this oral history interview, he was working in the NICU (newborn/neonatal intensive care unit) at the University of Vermont Medical Center while preparing for medical school, and as a swim coach for a youth team in northern Vermont. Pr...
Jenna Rapues, MPH is a Filipina trans woman, activist, and leader in public and transgender health in government, research, academic and public health institutions. She lives in San Francisco. At the time of this interview, she was the Program Director of Gender Health SF, a program of the San Francisco Department of Public Health that provides ...
Jonathan Hanft is the Ryan White Community Health Program Supervisor in the Hennepin County Public Health Department, leading the Twin Cities metro area's Ryan White Part A program. In this oral history interview, he discusses his initial thoughts about the pandemic as a public health professional, HIV/AIDS and COVID-19, the role of the Ryan Whi...
Creator:
Hanft, Jonathan (interviewee)
Contributor:
Negri, Adam (interviewer); Sommer, Barbara W. (interviewer)
Created:
2021-12-08
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Kathleen Clark is a nurse, Executive Director of the Augsburg Health Commons, and Assistant Professor of Nursing at Augsburg University. In this oral history interview, she discusses nursing education during the COVID-19 pandemic, the challenges therein, the interplay and similiarities between HIV/AIDS, SARS, and COVID-19, healthcare through the...
Creator:
Clark, Kathleen (interviewee)
Contributor:
Negri, Adam (interviewer); Sommer, Barbara W. (interviewer)
Created:
2021-09-07
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Katie Burgess is a white trans woman, community organizer, social worker, trans activist, and theatre artist based in Minneapolis. At the time of this oral history interview, she was a Co-Founder and Co-Director of Open Flame Theatre, an all-trans theatre ensemble based in Minneapolis and western Wisconsin, and additionally worked as a social wo...
Creator:
Burgess, Katie (interviewee)
Contributor:
Billund-Phibbs, Myra (interviewer and project manager); Brenner-Adam, Katherine (transcriber)
Created:
2021-11-16; 2021-11-30
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Kelly V. Robinson is a Nurse Care Coordinator with Westat Research and founder of the Minnesota chapter of Black Nurses Rock, Inc. In this oral history interview, she discusses the pandemic's occurrence in the first months of founding Minnesota's Black Nurses Rock chapter, HIV/AIDS and COVID-19, the work of Black nurses in Minnesota during the p...
Creator:
Robinson, Kelly V (interviewee)
Contributor:
Negri, Adam (interviewer); Sommer, Barbara W. (interviewer)
Created:
2021-09-16
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Kristen R. Ehresmann is an epidemiologist and director of the Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Prevention, and Control Division at the Minnesota Department of Health. In this oral history interview, she discusses her initial thoughts about the pandemic as a public health nurse and epidemiologist, HIV/AIDS and COVID-19, the role of MDH in the pan...
Creator:
Ehresmann, Kristen (interviewee)
Contributor:
Negri, Adam (interviewer); Sommer, Barbara W. (interviewer)
Created:
2021-06-23
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Kristie Rathmanner is a Wright County Public Health Nurse in the Health Promotion Unit and a member of the MDH's COVID-19 Vaccine Allocation Advisory Group. In this oral history interview, she discusses her initial thoughts on the pandemic as a public health nurse, HIV/AIDS and COVID-19, the impact of the pandemic on public health, the role of t...
Creator:
Rathmanner, Kristie (interviewee)
Contributor:
Negri, Adam (interviewer); Sommer, Barbara W. (interviewer)
Created:
2021-09-08
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Mary C. Turner is an ICU Nurse in the COVID unit of North Memorial Hospital in Robbinsdale, Minnesota, the President of the Minnesota Nurses Association, and the only RN appointed to President Biden's COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force. In this oral history interview, she discusses her initial thoughts on the pandemic as an ICU nurse, HIV/AIDS an...
Creator:
Turner, Mary C (interviewee)
Contributor:
Negri, Adam (interviewer); Sommer, Barbara W. (interviewer)
Created:
2021-08-27
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Masen Davis is a white trans man, political organizer, and nonprofit executive based in Berlin. At the time of this interview, he was the Executive Director of Transgender Europe (TGEU,) a network of European trans advocacy and activist organizations. Prior to his work with TGEU, he was the Executive Director of the advocacy and lobbying group F...
Nico Amador is a Latinx trans man, community organizer, trainer, educator, and writer based in Vermont. At the time of this interview, he was the Director of Operations at People's Hub, an online movement school and training hub, and was also pursuing an MFA at Bennington College's Writing Seminars. Prior to his time in Vermont, Amador worked as...
Shannon TL Kearns is a white trans man, playwright, and ordained priest based in Minneapolis. At the time of this interview, he was the founder and artistic director of Uprising Theatre Company, and a co-founder of QueerTheology.com. His plays include Body+Blood, in a stand of dying trees, Line of Sight, Twisted Deaths, The Resistance of My Skin...
Shawn Demmons, MPH is a Black trans man, community organizer, public health and HIV/AIDS advocate, and trans health activist based in Oakland, California. At the time of this interview, he worked for the UCSF Center for AIDS Prevention Studies providing technical assistance to AIDS service organizations, and with the UCSF Center of Excellence fo...
Stephanie Luz Hernandez, LMFT is a queer Latinx trans-femme licensed mental health therapist, gender health specialist, and trans health activist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. At the time of this interview, she worked at a clinic in Oakland, California supporting trans and gender nonconforming adolescents and adults in accessing gender-af...
John and Martha Nygaard immigrated from Norway. After living briefly in Montreal, Minneapolis, and Fridley, they finally settled in Grand Park, Minnesota and managed a farm. Their great great granddaughter tells the story of their life in this video.
Creator:
Hensel, Megan
Contributor:
Rolland, Isabella
Created:
2021-10-29
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
This photo was taken in the Spring of 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic, when some staff and students had returned to campus and some were still working and attending school from home. A student employee wearing a face mask is seated behind clear plexiglass at the Kirby Student Center Technology Services help desk. Signs on the plexiglass and de...
Created:
2021-03-23
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This sign was on the door of a lab. It has a cartoon image of a bear sleeping in a snowy cave, and reads: "This Lab Has Been Placed Into Temporary Hibernation. Critical equipment and experiments have been properly shut down and chemicals/samples are properly stored. No activity is occurring in this lab as of: March 17, 2020." The sign also inclu...
Created:
2021-03-23
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This talk is about the conflicts of interest within the law enforcement bodies of our institutions, and the devastating consequences for organizations and society in general. It will look at the structural flaws in the gatekeeping apparatus from an abstract perspective, and at specific examples, especially from the speaker’s personal exper...
Creator:
Ben-Artzi, Eric (Gannuity)
Created:
2021-03-26
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is an imaging method wherein a solution containing biological macromolecules is frozen in a thin layer of ice and imaged in a transmission electron microscope. The resulting tomographic projections are then assembled into density maps depicting the 3D structure of the molecule. While many molecules can be ...
Creator:
Anden, Joakim (Royal Institute of Technology
Created:
2021-02-16
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
As the role of data and analytics is expanding very rapidly in creating new business models or changing existing ones, demand for data science and analytics professionals is growing at an increasing rate. However, almost every company in the industry has a unique way of defining roles and assigning titles in data related positions. For any given...
Creator:
Hamutcu, Hamit (Initiative for Analytics and Data Science Standards
Created:
2021-12-03
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Liz Fierst is a Korean American adoptee. She was raised in Minneapolis and has traveled to many places throughout her adult life. She is now a prinicpal for a Middle School in San Francisco.
Creator:
O'Hagan, Ruby
Contributor:
Rolland, Isabella
Created:
2021-10-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence are all practices implemented by humans in the context of a complex and ever-changing world. This talk will focus on the challenges of long-term, seasonal, multicyclic time series forecasting in logistics. I will discuss algorithms and implementations including STL, TBATS, and Prophet, ...
Creator:
Taipale, Kaisa (CH Robinson)
Created:
2021-10-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
We present machine learning (ML) approaches for approximately solving optimal transport problems in the high-dimensional setting. Problems of this kind frequently arise in statistics, Bayesian inference, and generative modeling, yet progress has been limited due to the curse-of-dimensionality. As our learning framework tackles the optimal cont...
Creator:
Ruthotto, Lars (Emory University)
Created:
2021-04-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
This photograph shows the entrance to a grocery store with several pink-and-white signs reading "Due to CDC Recommendations & Guidelines MASKS REQUIRED FOR ALL Including those vaccinated [and] unvaccinated." Description from the creator: "This photograph was taken on August 2, 2021 at the Hillside Whole Foods Co-op. With cases rising and the del...
Creator:
Aue, Shana
Created:
2021-08-02
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Content of a digital sign that was displayed on screens around the University of Minnesota Duluth Campus. The sign reads "Stop the Spread of COVID-19" at the top. Below is a graphic of a face mask next to the words "Mask Pick Up." To the right of this content are the words "Students will receive two free, university-branded face masks. Pick up l...
Creator:
University of Minnesota Duluth
Created:
2021
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This poster was displayed on the University of Minnesota Duluth campus during the COVID-19 pandemic. It reads: "Stop The Spread Of COVID-19. Maximum Occupancy. Wear Your Face Covering. Maintain Physical Distance From Others." At the bottom of the poster is a hyperlink for all University of Minnesota Duluth safety guidelines.
Creator:
University of Minnesota Duluth
Created:
2021
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This talk will describe a suite of physically inspired instruments we've developed to enable exploration of large-scale text data, illuminate collective behavioral patterns, and develop a science of stories. Along with our flagship efforts at http://hedonometer.org and https://storywrangling.org we show how Instagram photos reveal markers of dep...
Creator:
Danforth, Chris (University of Vermont)
Created:
2021-05-18
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
This poster was displayed on the University of Minnesota Duluth campus during the COVID-19 pandemic. It reads: "My M Community Is Safer Because I Do My Part. I Follow COVID-19 Safety Guidelines. I Properly Wash My Hands And Clean My Work Area. I Maintain Physical Distancing. I Wear A Face Covering. I Check My Temperature Each Morning And Evening...
Creator:
University of Minnesota
Created:
2021
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth