STORIES OF INSPIRATION
From the classroom to the Gopher gridiron, Jim and Jen Schweigert prove you don’t have to wait for retirement to make a lasting impact
An expansion at the Nutritious U Food Pantry is filling a grocery gap for students who are experiencing food insecurity — no proof of need required
Whether she’s helping to draft climate bills in Minnesota or conducting ecology fieldwork in Ireland, Martha Wondimu is turning a lifelong love of nature into a career path
I choke up just about every time I talk about it. she was an enslaved person when she published it, and she did it before the age of 20.
Davu Seru, curator of the Givens Collection of African American Literature and Life at the University of Minnesota Libraries, which includes the first book published by an African American in the United States, Phillis Wheatley's 1773 collection, "Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral"
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