University of Minnesota Alumni Association

Minnesota Alumni Fall 2019
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Seeds of Health

U alumni, researchers and Native communities come together to fight chronic disease with better nutrition and traditional foods.
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Clean and Green

Fresh food from a basement? Urban Greens is an unconventional, city-based farm.
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Drinking Deep

Wines made from cold-hardy U of M grapes are winning awards and gaining fans, thanks to winemakers like Steve Zeller and the U’s breeding and outreach programs.
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Food for Thought

U Center for Spirituality and Healing senior fellow and food maven Brenda Langton shares a lifetime of insight on how what we eat makes us who we are.
Sports

Coaching Generation Z

Coaches discover that today’s student athletes respond better to nurturing than negativity.
Arts

The Art of Craft

Alumna Sarah Schultz heads the nation’s premier nonprofit dedicated to celebrating both makers and handicrafts.
Arts

The Hand of the Potter

World-renowned ceramicist and potter Warren MacKenzie shaped both clay and students during a 40-year career at the U.
Alumni Stories

Speaking Truth to Power

Film pro Scott Burns took his sense of true north with him from Minnesota to Hollywood.
Alumni Stories

Getting Women Into Africa’s Boardrooms

Marcia Ashong, recipient of a recent Archbishop Desmond Tutu Fellowship, is helping cultivate women leaders in Africa.
Alumni Stories

A Force for Good

Chief Deputy Attorney General John Keller wants to protect the rights of all Minnesotans.
About Campus

Who Gets Set in Stone?

Not women, according to a U research project that looks at female representation in statues and memorials.
Discoveries

Fighting Ebola

A University of Minnesota team helped test an Ebola vaccine in the midst of an epidemic.
Discoveries

University to Form Rare Disease Advisory Council

Legislature funds four-year program after mother’s appeal.
Discoveries

Discoveries

Includes "Climate Change and the World's Food," "Childhood Cancer and IVF," and "Help for the Walleye."
Books

Everything Interesting About Minneapolis, Somali Stories, and More

It's Minnesota Alumni's quarterly books roundup
Columns

Editor's Note: Back at the U

My first brush with the U—although I certainly didn’t know it at the time—was as a child growing up on a farm in far southwestern Minnesota.
The Last Word

Little Gophers

Long ago, in a far corner of the University of Minnesota’s East Bank campus, generations of youthful students participated in what was then known as the University High School. Thomas B. Jones (B.A. ’64), a long-retired professor of history, attended University High School from 1956-1960.