We explore questions of the moment—the liberal arts are truly the front page of the newspaper—and enduring questions that help us to understand the present and the past and to anticipate the future.
The COVID 19 pandemic has exacted a toll on the US economy. Inflation is at a 40 year high. But there's some recent good news about the job market. Professor Timothy Kehoe…
Starting at the MN state capitol as an undergrad and now working in the US capitol with Senator Tina Smith, Amy Zhou (BA’ 21) reflects on the various ways campus resources…
This new fund supports programming to include reading events, an essay prize, and a literary festival that will engage Twin Cities high school students.
RIDGS is partnering with ODEI to launch a book club for all UMN community members to explore how the book and conversations inform their self-work and racial equity group work…
Two years into the pandemic, many of us have questioned our relationships and what community now looks like. A New York Times article titled, “Is Life Better When We’re…
Tom Lane intertwines the last 200 centuries of ceramics and the last five of political history across the continent in his current exhibition, Reverent and Irreverant Objects.
Dr. Iris Vilares shares in a Star Tribune article titled, “As the omicron wave grew, Minnesotans adjusted quickly, kept going out,” why some people are feeling COVID fatigue.