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.