News & Stories

Why Canoes? A New Exhibit in the Northrop Gallery

by menning

“Why Canoes: Capacious Vessels and Indigenous Futures of Minnesota's Peoples and Places” is now available for an online, virtual tour, as well as at Northrop's fourth-floor gallery. It explores the interconnectedness between the Native Canoe Program, University of Minnesota students, faculty, staff, and members of three Indigenous communities around Mni Sota Makoce (Minnesota). 

Moving Cell in 6 Questions: Looking Back at IAS Projects Over 15 Years

by altravis

Last year, the IAS turned fifteen. In that time, the Institute has incubated several projects that have gone on to flourish and grow larger than anyone might have expected at the outset. This series showcases where those projects began, where they are now, and how they got there. This is the story of how two University of Minnesota faculty in two totally different fields may have never met if not for the IAS.

Categories: IAS Features

Announcing the First Short-Term Fellow Cohorts at the IAS

by altravis

From May-June, the two new cohorts of our pilot short-term fellows program will gather virtually to share research and make productive connections. Open to all University of Minnesota system faculty, graduate students, staff, and to community members across the state of Minnesota, we are pleased to say we received an overwhelming number of applications. 

Categories: Residential Fellows

Meet an IAS Residential Fellow: Emily Mitamura

by altravis

Meet Emily Mitamura, Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellow at the IAS, working to develop her dissertation research which centers the afterlife of the Cambodian Genocide, in particular the compounding of physical and bodily legacies with global performative and narrative demands placed on those interred in its wake.

Categories: Residential Fellows

Announcing the Summer 2021 MnDRIVE Human in the Data Fellows

by altravis

Eight graduate students from the University of Minnesota have been selected to participate in the Summer 2021 MnDRIVE Human in the Data Fellowship, presented by the IAS, DASH, and Research Computing.

Categories: Residential Fellows

IAS in the News, May 2021

by altravis

A collection of recent news featuring IAS community members and programs.

IAS Director Jennifer Gunn receives President’s Award for Outstanding Service

by altravis

The President’s Award for Outstanding Service is presented each year in the spring and recognizes exceptional service to the University, its schools, colleges, departments, and service units by any active or retired faculty or staff member.

Meet an IAS Residential Fellow: Florencia Pech-Cárdenas

by altravis

Meet Florencia Pech-Cárdenas, Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellow at the IAS, who is working on a project exploring the intersections among tourism, handicraft production, gender, livelihoods and forest management in Maya communities of Yucatan, Mexico.

Categories: Residential Fellows

Meet an IAS Residential Fellow: Tammy Berberi

by altravis

Meet Tammy Berberi—IAS Faculty Fellow for Spring 2021—working on Disability and Joy, a literature review that will serve as the foundation for a series of qualitative interviews with disabled people about their experiences of joy.

Categories: Residential Fellows

Announcing the 2021–2022 IAS Research and Creative Collaboratives!

by altravis

We are delighted to announce the IAS Research and Creative Collaboratives for 2021–2022. These self-initiated groups represent some of the most innovative work at the University. Their work—be it the development of a performance piece, the exploration of a concept or research area through different disciplines, or the creation of a supportive intellectual community—exemplifies synergistic interdisciplinary activity, and transcends departmental structures.

Categories: Collaboratives