Each of these three posters contains a piece of digital art exploring an aspect of life during the COVID-19 pandemic. The first poster contains a digital drawing of a person with a messy bun wearing a face mask, large long-sleeved shirt, and pants rolled up at the ankles. Text at the bottom of the poster reads: "Comfort and fashion, transitionin...
Creator:
Bleess, Claudia
Created:
2021-09
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 an orange human figure with a sad expression sitting on a cloud that is floating in a starry sky above the planet Earth. Text around the clouds reads: "During the pandemic I felt as if I was watching life p...
Creator:
Enright, Autum
Created:
2021-09
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 something going on in society during the COVID-19 pandemic. The first poster contains a digital drawing of a Democratic Party donkey wearing a blue face mask. Text at the bottom of the poster reads: "The COVID-19 pandemic greatly impacted the political disparity that exists in...
Creator:
Schenten, Peyton
Created:
2021-09
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 something going on in society during the COVID-19 pandemic. The first poster contains a digital drawing of a sign reading "IT'S MY BODY MY CHOICE." Text at the bottom of the poster reads: "An Anti-Vaxer’s Sign refusing to get vaxinated." The second poster contains a digital dr...
Creator:
Vue, Bishop C.
Created:
2021-09
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 something going on in society during the COVID-19 pandemic. The first poster contains a digital drawing of a crowd of human figures, some blue and some red. They are featureless, but have black rectangles over where their eyes would be. Text at the bottom of the poster reads: ...
Creator:
Totushek, Carrie
Created:
2021-09
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 something going on in society during the COVID-19 pandemic. The first poster contains a digital drawing of a blue donkey and a red elephant prancing around a green coronavirus molecule. The second poster contains a digital drawing of a purple vial labeled "MISINFORMATION" with...
Creator:
Murphy, Mckenna
Created:
2021-09
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This colorful poster reads: "If You're Not Wearing It Right, It's Like You're Not Wearing It At All." The first part of the sentence is on a background of bright green. Above it is a green check mark and a cartoon face wearing a face mask properly over its nose and mouth. The second part of the sentence is on a red background. Above it are two r...
Creator:
University of Minnesota Duluth Health Services
Created:
2021-09
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:
2021-08-30
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
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.
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:
2021-08-26
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
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...
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:
2021-08-16
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; Regassa, Saron; McGrew, Marie
Created:
2021-08-09
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
This photograph shows two women wearing face masks sitting across from each other at a table, with laptops and a computer monitor between them. Description from the creator: "Kim Pittman and Rachel Flynn, UMD Librarians, meet masked in Kathryn A. Martin Library, room 260 on August 4, 2021. On August 3, 2021 the UMN system began requiring masks a...
Creator:
Jones, Kayleen
Created:
2021-08-04
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
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.
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:
2021-08-02
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
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
Interview 25 in the Minnesota Lesbian Community Organizing Oral History Project (MLCO) is with Nancy Lee, an activist and one of the organizers of Womyn of Color Stirfry. In response to a desegregation push, she attended a mostly white elementary school, started at a neighborhood high school with mostly black and brown students, and then finishe...
Creator:
Lee, Nancy
Contributor:
Vecoli, Lisa
Created:
2021-08-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
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 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:
2021-07-26
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
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...
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:
2021-07-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
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. ...
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.
Interview 24 in the Minnesota Lesbian Community Organizing Oral History Project (MLCO) is with Ana Silva, an activist and one of the organizers of Women of Color Stir Fry. After meeting a group of sober lesbians at the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival, she moved to the Twin Cities where her community were women centered at the Women’s Coffeehouse...
Creator:
Silva, Ana
Contributor:
Vecoli, Lisa
Created:
2021-07-12
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
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:
2021-07-12
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; Tarver, Steve
Created:
2021-07-06
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; Weir, Helene
Created:
2021-06-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
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...
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.
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.
Interview 23 in the Minnesota Lesbian Community Organizing Oral History Project (MLCO) is with Jo Den Boer, Mev Miller, Lori Schroeder, and Barb Wieser, four core members of the Amazon Bookstore Cooperative from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Amazon Bookstore was a hub of the lesbian community in the Twin Cities. It was one of over 100 femini...
Creator:
Amazon Bookstore Collective
Contributor:
Vecoli, Lisa
Created:
2021-06-22
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
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 ...
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; Koontz, Lauren
Created:
2021-06-21
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; Greenberger, Sharon
Created:
2021-06-14
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; Ortiz, Lucria; Parsons, Monique
Created:
2021-06-07
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:
2021-06-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
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.
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:
2021-05-24
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
Damanta Basnet was born in Beldangi 2 refugee camp in Damak, Nepal. Her parents moved there after the Lhotsampas were forced to leave Bhutan in the 1990s. Damanta and her family moved to Minnesota in 2011 and overcame many obstacales while adjusting to the new culture.
Creator:
Basnet, Damanta
Contributor:
Rolland, Isabella
Created:
2021-05-22
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
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 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; Bolding, Kevin; Lamour, Ernest
Created:
2021-05-17
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
Interview 22 in the Minnesota Lesbian Community Organizing Oral History Project (MLCO) is with Pat Nevins, one of the founders and then director of the Women’s Program at Christopher Street, a chemical dependency treatment program for gays and lesbians. Her early involvement in anti-war and civil rights activism led to an interest in organizing ...
Creator:
Nevins, Pat
Contributor:
Vecoli, Lisa
Created:
2021-05-13
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Interview 21 in the Minnesota Lesbian Community Organizing Oral History Project (MLCO) is with Chris Cinque, a playwright, director, and actor. She is among the earliest out lesbian playwrights in the country to write positive plays with out lesbian characters. Early in her career, she wrote In Search of Meryl Strange for the Palace Theater and ...
Creator:
Cinque, Chris
Contributor:
Vecoli, Lisa
Created:
2021-05-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
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:
2021-05-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
Though ubiquitous in our daily lives, crumpling is a challenging process to understand and predict: As a thin sheet is confined, stresses spontaneously localize to produce a complex network of vertices and ridges in the sheet. However, past studies have uncovered surprising mathematical order to the length of creases that form as a sheet is crum...
Creator:
Andrejevic, Jovana (Harvard University)
Created:
2021-05-04
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:
2021-05-03
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
The Burer-Monteiro method is one of the most widely used techniques for solving large-scale semidefinite programs (SDP). The basic idea is to solve a nonconvex program in Y, where Y is an n×p matrix such that X = YYT. We show that this method can solve SDPs in polynomial time in a smoothed analysis setting. More precisely, we consider an S...
Creator:
Cifuentes, Diego (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Created:
2021-04-27
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:
2021-04-26
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
The identification of nodes in a network that will enable the fastest spread of information is an important if not fundamental problem in network control and design. It is applicable to the optimal placement of sensors, the design of secure networks and the problem of control when network resources are limited. We consider a discrete time model...
Creator:
Hunt, Fern (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
Created:
2021-04-23
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
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...
Elena Hernandez in Mexico in 1977. At the age of 19 she gave birth to her first daughter and travelled to the United States to live with her father using a relative's documents. Elena's story is told by her daughter and details the dangers that migrants can face when crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.
Creator:
Hernandez, Sinai
Contributor:
Rolland, Isabella
Created:
2021-04-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Interview 20 in the Minnesota Lesbian Community Organizing Oral History Project (MLCO) is the second of two with Barb Wieser, a founder of the Iowa City Women’s Press and Aunt Lute Book Company, long-time member of the Amazon Bookstore worker cooperative, and author and lesbian feminist activist in Iowa City, San Francisco, and Minneapolis. In 1...
Creator:
Weiser, Barb
Contributor:
Vecoli, Lisa
Created:
2021-04-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
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 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; Washington, Kevin
Created:
2021-04-19
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
One of the most ubiquitous problems arising across the sciences is that of solving large-scale systems of linear equations Ax = b. When it is infeasible to solve the system directly by inversion, light and scalable iterative methods can be used instead, such as, Randomized Kaczmarz (RK) algorithm, or Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD). The classi...
Creator:
Rebrova, Elizaveta (University of California, Los Angeles)
Created:
2021-04-13
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; Perez, Jorge; Ives, Steve
Created:
2021-04-12
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
In the past, new conjectures about fundamental constants were discovered sporadically by famous mathematicians such as Newton, Euler, Gauss, and Ramanujan. The talk will present a different approach – a systematic algorithmic approach that discovers new mathematical conjectures on fundamental constants. We call this approach “the Ram...
Creator:
Kaminer, Ido (Technion-Israel Institute of Technology)
Created:
2021-04-06
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; Hazelbaker, Curt
Created:
2021-04-05
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
This photograph shows a University of Minnesota Duluth employee's home workspace. From the creator: "This is a photo of my workspace at home, where I have been working almost exclusively since March 12, 2020 (with only occasional trips to the UMD campus). Besides the technological equipment (computer, two monitors, keyboard, mouse, laptop which ...
Creator:
Vavrosky, Laura
Created:
2021-04-03
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Photographs from University of Minnesota Duluth Theatre’s 2021 production of Bare. Run dates: April 29-May 2, 2021. Venue: Marshall Performing Arts Center Mainstage Theatre. The actors all wore masks due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Director: Thomas Jacobsen. Cast list--Peter: Jake Nelson; Jason: Christopher Hoffmann; Ivy: Jenessa Iverson; Nadia: D...
Creator:
Montgomery, Derek
Created:
2021-04
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This series of six photographs includes exterior and interior photographs of the post-vaccine observation area, including waiting areas, an information table, and a hand sanitizing station. The last photo is of a button that reads "St. Lukes, I GOT MY COVID-19 VACCINE." From the creator: "These photos show the post-vaccine observation area at th...
Creator:
Jones, Kayleen
Created:
2021-04
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Data with low-dimensional nonlinear structure are ubiquitous in engineering and scientific problems. We study a model problem with such structure—a binary classification task that uses a deep fully-connected neural network to classify data drawn from two disjoint smooth curves on the unit sphere. Aside from mild regularity conditions, we p...
Creator:
Wright, John (Columbia University)
Created:
2021-03-30
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:
2021-03-29
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
From the creator: "This is a photo of me getting my first dose of the Moderna vaccine on Saturday, March 27, 2021. I was on a list that a local pharmacist was maintaining of people who could come in on short notice and receive doses that were about to expire. This dose, which I received at around 4:30 pm, was scheduled to expire at 5 pm. There w...
Creator:
Aue, Shana
Created:
2021-03-27
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.
This photograph was taken from inside a car at the Barnum Transportation Building (3888 County Road 61, Barnum, MN 55707) where the creator was receiving her first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. It shows a view out the windshield at lines of cars, as the creator waited until she could leave after receiving the vaccine. Her time, 3:23, is written ...
Creator:
Vavrosky, Laura
Created:
2021-03-25
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This photograph was taken from inside a car at the Barnum Transportation Building (3888 County Road 61, Barnum, MN 55707) where the creator was receiving her first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. It shows a view out the windshield of two lines of cars driving through the building and workers in yellow vests checking people in and administering the...
Creator:
Vavrosky, Laura
Created:
2021-03-25
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
The creator and her husband after being vaccinated at the St. Louis County Public Health COVID-19 Vaccination Clinic held at the Range Recreation Center (curling club) in Eveleth, MN. Both are wearing face masks. The U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame is visible in the background.
Creator:
Pittman, Kim
Created:
2021-03-25
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This photograph was taken from inside a car at the Barnum Transportation Building (3888 County Road 61, Barnum, MN 55707) where the creator was receiving her first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. It shows a sign reading "Rest Rooms Available Upon Request."
Creator:
Vavrosky, Laura
Created:
2021-03-25
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This photograph, taken inside the vaccination clinic, includes people waiting in line to receive vaccines and an area where people sat for the required fifteen minutes after being vaccinated. This clinic was held inside the curling club in Eveleth, MN. Visible on the walls are the flags of the USA, Canada, Minnesota, and other nations, as well a...
Creator:
Pittman, Kim
Created:
2021-03-25
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This photograph, taken inside the vaccination clinic, includes tables where people completed registration forms prior to receiving vaccinations and an area where people sat for the required fifteen minutes after being vaccinated. This clinic was held inside the curling club in Eveleth, MN. Visible on the walls are the flags of the USA, Canada, M...
Creator:
Pittman, Kim
Created:
2021-03-25
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This photograph, taken inside the vaccination clinic, includes people waiting to receive vaccines and tables where people completed registration forms prior to being vaccinated. This clinic was held inside the curling club in Eveleth, MN. Visible on the walls are the flags of various nations, as well as signs for businesses and organizations tha...
Creator:
Pittman, Kim
Created:
2021-03-25
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
A sandwich board sign reading "COVID-19 Vaccination Clinic Today." The sign was located at the St. Louis County Public Health COVID-19 Vaccination Clinic held at the Range Recreation Center (curling club) in Eveleth, MN.
Creator:
Pittman, Kim
Created:
2021-03-25
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This photograph, taken inside the vaccination clinic, shows two people at the registration table. Both people are wearing face masks. Visible on the table are a large digital clock, two laptop computers, Clorox wipes, and hand sanitizer. This clinic was run by St Louis County Public Health, and was held at the local curling club.
Created:
2021-03-25
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Vincenta Jasiewicz immigrated to the United States from Poland at the age of 16. After her first husband tragically died, she remarried and raised 5 children in a Polish enclave of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Her story is told by her granddaughter.
Creator:
Brandenburg, Ashley
Contributor:
Rolland, Isabella
Created:
2021-03-24
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
The Metropolis Algorithm is an extremely useful and popular method of approximately sampling from complicated probability distributions. "Adaptive" versions automatically modify the algorithm while it runs, to improve its performance on the fly, but at the risk of destroying the Markov chain properties necessary for the algorithm to be valid. I...
Creator:
Rosenthal, Jeffrey (University of Toronto)
Created:
2021-03-23
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
This bulletin board was posted in the College of Science and Engineering on the University of Minnesota Duluth campus. The first photograph shows the whole bulletin board, which is labeled "ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING" in large text. An instruction sheet reads: "Okay, real talk. 2020 has flipped our world upside down. Here's a space where you can sha...
Created:
2021-03-23
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
These three photographs show many chairs of different types stacked in areas in a library building that are normally open spaces, some blocking shelves of books. From the creator: "These photos were taken on March 23, 2021 at UMD, in the Library Annex. My office is in the Annex, which is currently closed. To encourage social distancing in the ma...
Creator:
Aue, Shana
Created:
2021-03-23
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This sign was on the doors to the Library Annex building throughout Fall 2020 and Spring 2021. It reads: "The Library Annex is Closed for the Fall Semester. Need to connect with our Archives & Special Collections Department? If you need to connect with our Archives & Special Collections Department, please reach out to our Archives staff at: [con...
Creator:
Aue, Shana
Created:
2021-03-23
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This sign was placed outside the bookstore in Kirby Center at UMD in the Spring of 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic. The sign reads: "STOP THE SPREAD OF COVID-19. FACE COVERINGS REQUIRED. FOR YOUR SAFETY: Customers limited to 38; Practice physical distancing by following signs and floor arrows; Properly wear face covering. Both your nose and mo...
Created:
2021-03-23
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
The sign is affixed to the fountain and reads: "USE ONLY THE NO-TOUCH BOTTLE FILLER. Fountain is 'out' of 'order.' I mean, not really. But don't be a weirdo and use the fountain."
Created:
2021-03-23
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
There are two signs on the door. The larger sign is red and gold (UMD's colors) and has a line drawing of a face mask. It reads: "+ STOP THE SPREAD OF COVID-19 + FACE COVERING REQUIRED. SEE ALL SAFETY GUIDELINES: [URL]." The smaller, postcard-sized sign is blue with yellow lettering and has an illustration of blue string lights. It reads: "THANK...
Creator:
Aue, Shana
Created:
2021-03-23
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This photograph was taken on the first floor of the library, at the main entrance. During the COVID-19 pandemic, library patrons were directed to enter through one lane of the entrance and exit through another, to aid with physical distancing. The sticker reads: "ENTRANCE ONLY DO NOT EXIT." The sticker was originally red and gold, UMD's colors, ...
Creator:
Aue, Shana
Created:
2021-03-23
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: "Pick Up Your UMD Face Masks Here!" During this time UMD provided two cloth face masks to all students, faculty, and staff.
Created:
2021-03-23
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Signs for GrubHub, a takeout delivery service, in the hallway outside of the UMD campus coffee shop. The large colorful signs read: "ENTER HERE ONCE ORDER IS READY FOR PICKUP. GRUBHUB" and "GRUBHUB, Avoid the line! Order for pickup from on-campus restaurants with Grubhub campus dining. [QR code] Scan code with smartphone and download the app. $3...
Created:
2021-03-23
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
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 sign directed students to online research help while library staff was working from home. It reads: "Looking for Research Help? Research Support is available online this semester. Email your question to [email address] or chat with the librarian on the library homepage, [URL]"
Creator:
Aue, Shana
Created:
2021-03-23
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
A table with rows of spray bottles of sanitizer. There are also instructions on a sheet of paper taped to the wall. These sanitizing stations were all over campus.
Created:
2021-03-23
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
