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UMRA’s 2022–23 program year got off to a wonderful start with Jane Graupman, ’88, executive director of the International Institute of Minnesota, as the guest speaker for our in-person luncheon forum at the Campus Club on September 27.
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UMRA members who have started and convened some of our interest groups gave us a taste of what happens in their group and what they get out of exploring this interest with others.
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This historical novel tells a compelling story about the archivist and librarian who developed the Pierpont Morgan Library into a world-class collection in the early 20th century and kept secret her African American heritage her whole professional life.
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Most members of the UMRA Book Club liked this historical novel. Set in both the 1500s and the present, it tells the story of William and Agnes Shakespeare and their grief at losing a child.
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Members of UMRA’s Fourth Friday Book Club enjoyed a lively discussion of author Gail Honeyman’s prize-winning debut novel and what it reveals about the importance of friendship and care to the development of the quirky main character.
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This historical novel depicts the life of aviation pioneer Beryl Markham and the early decades of her extraordinary life growing up in Kenya.
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On June 24, at the end of a week like no other (House Jan. 6 committee hearings, and Supreme Court decisions on gun control in New York and overturning Roe v. Wade), UMRA’s Fourth Friday Book Club had a deep and passionate discussion on Strangers in Their Own Land by Arlie Russell Hochschild.
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Several UMRA Book Club I members are avid fans of the Louise Penny books while for a few this was their first introduction to the mysteries set in Three Pines.
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The Retirees Association held a celebratory and well-attended annual meeting and forum on May 24, welcoming Provost Rachel Croson and CLA Dean John Coleman to our first in-person luncheon gathering at the Campus Club since February 2020.
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Our May 2022 workshop was an engaging presentation on Minnesota’s wonderful system of state parks and trails by Arielle Courtney, partnership development consultant for the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. She began with a summary of the health benefits of getting outdoors, especially in natural areas, and why “two hours outdoors is the new 10,000 steps.”
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On May 11, 2022 the Family History Interest Group met for an open forum that gave participants the opportunity to discuss any aspect of Family History.
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Jean Kinsey and Frank Busta spent 3 weeks in Turkey in 2013. They share their incredible experience through pictures and wonderful descriptions that include archaeological, historical, religious, political, culinary, and geological perspectives.
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“The homeless problem is a housing problem,” according to Tim Marx, the informative and engaging speaker at the UMRA Forum on April 26, 2022. Speaking on the topic “Advancing the Public Good Through Housing,” Marx maintained that many challenges may increase the risk of homelessness (such as chemical dependence, ex-offender status, and domestic abuse), but the root cause of the homeless problem is the housing crisis.
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For our April 2022 workshop, Erik van Kuijk, MD, PhD, chair of the University of Minnesota Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Neurosciences, discussed age-related changes in the eye and the diseases that ensue.
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"The Things They Carried" is an exquisitely written collection of short stories by Minnesota-born author Tim O’Brien about a platoon of American soldiers fighting on the ground in the Vietnam War.
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Writer and teacher Brenda Hudson shared her story-project method when the Family History Interest Group met on April 13.
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Thomas Fisher, professor, director of the Minnesota Design Center, and former dean, joined the UMRA Forum on Tuesday, March 22, via Zoom to talk about the history as well as the future of universities in the wake of pandemics, based on his new book—Space, Structures and Design in a Post-Pandemic World—to be published by Routledge in April.
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Caroline Fraser’s Pulitzer prize-winning book Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder is a meticulously researched biography of the much-loved author of the Little House books.
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UMRA's March 15 workshop was an overview of the financial planning resources of one of the world’s largest asset managers, Fidelity Investments.
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The mRNA technology that enabled the rapid development of COVID-19 vaccines rests on decades of basic and translational research and came to fruition at the exact time when it was most needed. The effort was akin to the Apollo moon program.
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On Valentine’s Day 2022, Governor Tim Walz spoke to members of UMRA for a special forum that also featured U of M President Joan Gabel. In his prepared remarks and discussion with the president that followed, the governor was clear that the U is one of the bedrocks of the state.
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Doing family history research with DNA was the focus when the UMRA Family History Interest Group (FHIG) met in February.
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This Armchair Traveler Program featured two very interesting presentation about two very different parts of the world. Kathryn Hanna, retired faculty member from the Waseca campus and the College of Biological Sciences on the Twin Cities campus, talked about how her interest in Inuit art resulted in a trip to Baffin Island where she visited three Inuit communities and met many Inuit artists.
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Increasing polarization and precarity, an aging population, growing heterogeneity, escalating inequalities—all in the context of intensifying digitalization and a public health crisis—are challenging our norms and expectations. Our January Forum speaker, U of M Professor Phyllis Moen, led us in discussing how these multilayered forces are affecting those of us in the later parts of our lives.
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Colson Whitehead, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for The Underground Railroad, explores the horrors of a reformatory school in Florida in his subsequent novel, "The Nickel Boys."
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Pamela Schreiner, PhD, a professor in the Division of Epidemiology and Community Health and director of the School of Public Health’s Center to Study Human-Animal Relationships and Environments, was the featured speaker for UMRA’s first Living Well Workshop of 2022.
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In this session, we learned how to take pictures (of your pictures) with a digital camera, the pros and cons of fee-based digitizing services, and flat-bed scanners.
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The U of M Law School is proud to be in the vanguard of the effort to lean into a time of racial reckoning, and to be doing the hard work of actually seeing the barriers that are standing in the way of progress, Dean Garry Jenkins told members of the Retirees Association during UMRA’s final forum of 2021.
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This inspiring book by the prolific American author Catherine Ryan Hyde conveys a hopeful theme that also underlies her first novel, "Pay It Forward."
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The November 2021 UMRA A.M. audience was treated to an exceptional presentation on the international education of students at the University of Minnesota by Meredith McQuaid, associate vice president and dean of international programs.
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