UMN researchers find racial disparities in who produces air pollution and who...
Driving north on Interstate 94 out of Minneapolis, to the right is an industrial corridor where air quality is traded for roof shingles and concrete. To the left are predominantly black neighborhoods...
View ArticleThe fifth name: History hangs on Pioneer Hall
Next fall, the newly renovated residence hall will welcome students to live in a new multicultural living-learning community in a building that once contributed to segregation on the University of...
View ArticleSolutions sought for crowded Disability Resource Center
It has become increasingly common for staff at the Disability Resource Center to find a sign on a colleague’s door warning them someone is taking a test inside. The Senate Committee on Student Affairs...
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‘Indiana Jones’ of fungi helps save Egyptian artifacts
Two hundred miles south of Cairo, in an old part of Egypt west of the river Nile, there is life in the city of the dead. Wood-decaying fungi have been feasting in the tombs of Abydos for millennia,...
View ArticleOn renaming, regents pursue own historical research
The debate over building names at the University of Minnesota hinges on different approaches to interpreting the same historical archive. After a University task force recommended renaming four...
View ArticleRegents will vote on resolution to keep building names
The Board of Regents will vote Friday on a resolution to decline President Eric Kaler’s preliminary recommendations to rename Coffman Union, Nicholson Hall, Middlebrook Hall and Coffey Hall. The board...
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Regents vote against renaming Coffman
The University of Minnesota’s Board of Regents voted against renaming four campus buildings despite protesters commandeering a special meeting Friday afternoon to decry the resolution. Regents voted...
View ArticleWomen faculty warn of bias in student evaluations
When students fill out the end-of-semester Student Rating of Teaching form, it usually signals their stress is almost over. But for the instructors, it can be just the beginning. Some instructors have...
View ArticleReckoning with history: How the University’s efforts to rename buildings failed
The University of Minnesota has not renamed a building on campus since its founding in 1851, a record kept after the Board of Regents meeting last month. In spite of more than a year of student...
View ArticleReckoning with history: How the University’s efforts to rename buildings failed
The University of Minnesota has not renamed a building on campus since its founding in 1851, a record kept after the Board of Regents meeting last month. In spite of more than a year of student...
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