University of Minnesota Alumni Association

Minnesota Alumni Spring 2022
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UMN Women's Sports Through the Years

The most visible successes of Title IX over the past 50 have come in sports.
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Expanding the Scope: Title IX and Sexual Harassment

For its first 30 years, Title IX was mostly known for the opportunities it opened up for female athletes. Around 2000, the law began to cover the prevention of sexual harassment.
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Up to Bat

Softball phenom Gretchen Larson (B.M.E. '85) had an unusual path to the U of M and the two-time All-American career that followed.
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'I Wanted to be an Astronaut'

A pair of coincidences helped marry Michele Brekke's passions in volleyball and aerospace engineering.
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Title IX at 50

The landmark 1972 legislation ushered in huge opportunities for women and girls. 50 years later, there’s still work to do.
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How Do We Get to Equity?

Before Chris Voelz took the job as the UMN women's athletic director in 1988, she made it clear that she would only take the job if it focused on gender equity in the athletics department.
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Title IX and The Tucker Center

The Tucker Center has a history of women & sports, both before and after it was created.
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'I Cannot Imagine My Life Without Sports'

Former Gophers hoops star has played pro ball for 14 years in Europe.
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She's Got Game

Gophers Women's Hockey turns 25
Alumni Stories

Alumnus Earns 'Mask Nerd' Fame

Aaron Collins has spent countless hours of his own time testing mask efficacy during the pandemic.
Alumni Stories

A New Breed of Vet

Alumni from the U of M Center for Animal Health and Food Safety address far-ranging problems that arise where animals and humans meet.
Alumni Stories

Smashing Stigmas

Alumni couple specializes in providing therapy for immigrants and people of color.
Alumni Stories

Engineering the Fantastic

Alumnus Ben Simms made something of a head-spinning career pivot after graduating from the U of M with a degree in aerospace engineering and astrophysics.
Discoveries

Discoveries

"Margarine for the Win," "Renewable Bio-Petroleum," and "Conflicting Health Advice"
Books

Surrogates, Violence, and Immigrants

It's Minnesota Alumni's quarterly books roundup
Columns

Editor's Note

Half a Century
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From the President

Reflecting on Title IX
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Letters

What do you think? Send letters and comments to umnalumnimag@umn.edu
The Last Word

The Properties of Women Are the Properties of Life

A poem from Jennifer Willoughby, M.F.A '00