On July fifteenth, we received an email from the University of Minnesota’s Office of Information Technology with the subject line “Introducing Google Gemini: Your AI Partner,” announcing that the...
We are senior building and grounds workers at the University of Minnesota. We have worked a combined 40 years at the University — Christy for 26, Steve for 14. Tonight, we are going on strike for the...
When was the last time you felt genuinely excited to dive deep into a topic just because it fascinated you? When did you last spend hours exploring an idea not because it was assigned, but because you...
The phrase that unites all of my lecture classes the past few semesters has been, “Will this be on the exam?” Variations come from professors and students alike. When this phrase plagues our classrooms,...
With the subject line “Navigating financial headwinds,” President Rebecca Cunningham sent a lengthy letter to all faculty and staff at the University of Minnesota on June 3. It refers to “unprecedented...
If, as the 19th century British peer and advocate of liberty Lord Acton once wrote, “power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely,” then we are witnessing the truth of this maxim in the insouciance...
For the past 600 days, the world has watched Israel wage a complete war of destruction on the Palestinian people. According to the United Nations, Gaza is the “hungriest place on Earth.” Israeli Prime...
At the height of my panic attacks and the depths of my self-doubt — an unanticipated effect of my first board exams and the start of clinical rotations — I was in need of a way to cope. I found solace...
In a letter penned from a federal detention facility in Louisiana, pro-Palestinian activist and political prisoner Mahmoud Khalil posed a simple and urgent question: “Who has the right to have rights?”...
In my four years as an undergraduate at the University of Minnesota, I spent significant time and effort seeking opportunities outside my discipline of study, and have found the most valuable experiences...
