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Meet a Short-Term Fellow: Tyler Seidel

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Tyler Seidel is a graduate student in Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior participating in the short-term fellowship on Water, Equity, and Justice.

Categories: Residential Fellows

Meet a Short-Term Fellow: Maddy Nyblade

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Meet Maddy Nyblade, a PhD student in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences studying the hydrology of Manoomin (wild rice) ecosystems as part of a tribal-university partnership, Kawe Gidaa-naanaagadawendaamin ManoominShe is a member of the short-term fellows cohort examining The Mission of the Land Grant/Land Grab University.

Categories: Residential Fellows

Meet a Short-Term Fellow: Amanda Lyons

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Meet Amanda Lyons, an IAS short-term fellow in the Water, Equity and Justice cohort. She is the Executive Director of the Human Rights Center at the University of Minnesota Law School.

Categories: Residential Fellows

MN Transform is Hiring!

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MN Transform is hiring a UMN graduate student for a 20 hour/week opening for an administrative assistant.

Meet an IAS Staff Member: Sophie Hunt

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Sophie B. Hunt recently started at the IAS as Internship Coordinator for Minnesota Transform.

Meet a Short-Term Fellow: Christian Bell

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Meet Christian Bell, a short-term fellow in the Mission of the Land-Grant/Land-Grab University cohort. 

Categories: Residential Fellows

Announcing the 2021 Humanities Without Walls Seed Grant Awardees!

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We are delighted to announce the 2021 Humanities Without Walls Grand Research Challenge seed grant awardees for projects on methodologies of reciprocity and redistribution!

Meet an IAS Staff Member: Andrea Manolov

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I am excited to be joining the IAS as a Media Specialist for the Minnesota Transform initiative. As a public historian I am passionate about practices of relationship building and collective history writing as a means of transformative justice. 

Announcing Issue 18 of Open Rivers, Water Futures

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On local and global scales, concerns about our water systems emerge from many directions. This new issue approaches the question of the future of water from a different angle by exploring practices that move us toward desirable futures with water.

Categories: Open Rivers

Meet a Short-Term Fellow: Kathryn Nuernberger

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Meet Kathryn Nuernberger, an IAS Short-Term Fellow in the Water, Equity, and Justice cohort. 

Categories: Residential Fellows