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.
Anatoly Liberman, a professor of German, Scandinavian and Dutch, explains how the four seasons got their names, and why different parts of the world prefer saying either…
Phyllis Moen, McKnight Endowed Presidential Chair of Sociology, talks about her book, "Encore Adulthood: Boomers on the Edge of Risk, Renewal, and Purpose." The book's central…
A new online program from the University of Minnesota Language Center began this fall. It provides a way for University of Minnesota-Morris students to enroll in language…
Moin Syed, an associate professor of psychology, discusses his use of advising statements when mentoring graduate students. "They can get a concrete sense about whether or not…
Two graduate students from the Heritage Studies and Public History program, Denise Pike and Kacie Lucchini Butcher, expose the history of racism in housing in Minneapolis…
Dean Billmeyer, a professor of music, talks about the newly restored pipe organ at Northrop auditorium. “I think the Northrop instrument would be viewed as one of the very…
This article features Doug Kearney, assistant professor of English and award-winning poet. Kearney experiments with language and critiques the appropriation of black culture.…
According to researchers, there are very few personality tests that are actually accurate. James Butcher, a professor emeritus in the Department of Psychology, gives some…
Payton Counts, an alumna of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences, helped organize a suicide prevention program for Native youth in Minneapolis. “A lot of Native youth don’t want…
Katherine West Scheil, a professor of English, writes this article in TIME Magazine about Anne Hathaway, the wife of William Shakespeare. Scheil describes the mysteries…