Thoughts on Aging

This essay enumerates one woman’s experiences with aging, including highly-recognizable (to some of us) and humorous observations.Prouty, Jo. (2025). Thoughts on Aging. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/269707

Dr. Vikki Krane: Shaping Research and Discourse on Gender in Sports

Runtime 37:19In this episode of Tucker Center Talks, Dr. Nicole M. LaVoi speaks with Dr. Vikki Krane, noted for her groundbreaking application of feminist theories in sport psychology. The discussion focuses on Dr. Krane’s vital research regarding gender, sexuality, and the portrayal of queer, trans, and non-binary athletes in the sports arena. They examine how Dr. Krane’s academic contributions have not only highlighted these frequently marginalized identities but have also questioned the ingrained norms of sports culture, promoting a more inclusive and equitable sporting landscape

Oral History Interview with Dr. Arvind Narayanan

Oral history for NSF projectThis oral history interview is sponsored by and a part of NSF 2202484 “Mining a Useable Past: Perspectives, Paradoxes, and Possibilities with Security and Privacy,” at the Charles Babbage Institute. The interview begins with Princeton Professor of Computer Science Arvind Narayanan recounting how his interests developed from his pre-college days, transitioning from mathematics to computer science. He majored in the latter at Indian Institute of Technology. Madras. He then went on to the University of Texas, Austin, to earn his Ph.D. in Computer Science. He discusses how his dissertation, broadly on deanonymization, was shaped by the mentorship of his advisor Vitaly Shmatikov. He relates his entrepreneurial efforts in Silicon Valley before returning to academia at Princeton in the Center for Information Technology Policy, which was then set up by Ed Felten. Narayanan comments on the state of technology policy broadly and how the topic was approached before the 2012 Menlo Reports. He discusses the privacy implications of the Fragile Families Challenge, a 2017 project partnering with Princeton’s Sociology Department. He explains how his approach as a cybersecurity researcher differed from the HCI community, by considering dark patterns deployed by adversaries. Amazon and Expedia were examples of e-commerce platforms utilizing these dark patterns. He also related experiences with Bitcoin, blockchain technology, and their communities. He shares his view of the past focus of computer security on malware and grayware as a possible future focus. He also offers his views on how enterprise systems differ from solely technical problems. Additionally, he discusses his approach to mentoring graduate students, his book project AI Snake Oil, and shares his perspectives on the open AI movement's similarity and differences from historical open-source software movements.NSFNarayanan, Arvind. (2025). Oral History Interview with Dr. Arvind Narayanan. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/270163

Epílogo: Un género inquietante. Resignificación de la experiencia y literatura de horror en América Latina

Montaldo, Graciela. (2025). Epílogo: Un género inquietante. Resignificación de la experiencia y literatura de horror en América Latina. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/269916

Nutrition Stocking Guidance for Full-Service Mobile Markets

Suggested citation: Harnack, L., Laska, M. N., & Horning, M. L. (2025) Nutrition Stocking Guidance for Full-Service Mobile Markets. University of Minnesota Digital Conservancy. [insert link to document here].Mobile markets, also called grocery-stores-on-wheels, work to improve food access, food security, and dietary intake in underserved areas. With limited shelf-space, mobile markets have to make decisions on which products to stock to support a culturally-connected and nutritious food shopping environment, while also balancing price and respecting customer autonomy. These stocking guidelines provide nutrition-related guidance to support mobile markets in choosing an array of products that provide more nutritious options for customers.Funding for this work was supported by the National Institute of Nursing Research of the National Institutes of Health under award number R01NR020539 (PI: Horning). The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.Harnack, Lisa; Laska, Melissa N; Horning, Melissa L. (2025). Nutrition Stocking Guidance for Full-Service Mobile Markets. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/269389

Anomalous Transport in Dissolving Porous Media: Transitions Between Fickian and Non-Fickian Regimes

The data in this repository corresponds to the results presented in the manuscript “Anomalous Transport in Dissolving Porous Media: Transitions Between Fickian and Non-Fickian Regimes.” It includes numerical simulation data from dissolution and passive tracer transport simulations for the two scenarios discussed in the manuscript, which illustrate the transition between Fickian and non-Fickian behavior. This data is now publicly available to ensure open access and facilitate the replication of our results in future studies.Mineral dissolution is a key geologic process with broad impacts on natural processes and human activities. Depending on the interplay between advection, diffusion, and reaction rates, mineral dissolution can produce various dissolution patterns, such as wormholing and uniform dissolution. The resulting changes in pore structure directly influence the flow field, which in turn control solute transport behavior. In this study, we conducted numerical modeling of mineral dissolution and solute transport in pore networks to investigate how initial network heterogeneity and dissolution regimes affect transport dynamics. Our findings show that wormholing increases network heterogeneity by creating preferential flow paths and stagnation zones, resulting in a transition from Fickian to non-Fickian transport. Conversely, uniform dissolution extensively homogenizes the pore network and the flow field, leading to a transition from non-Fickian to Fickian transport, even in networks with high initial heterogeneity. Based on the initial heterogeneity and Damköhler number, transitions can be predicted.Research supported as part of the Center on Geo-process in Mineral Carbon Storage, an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences at the University of Minnesota under award #DE-SC0023429. Jingxuan Deng and Peter K. Kang acknowledge the National Science Foundation under Grant EAR-2046015 for partial support of this research. Jingxuan Deng acknowledge the University of Minnesota Data Science Initiative and Minnesota’s Discovery, Research, and Innovation Economy for partial support of this research. Piotr Szymczak acknowledges the support of the National Science Centre (Poland) under research Grant 2022/47/B/ST3/03395Deng, Jingxuan; Sharma, Rishabh; Szymczak, Piotr; Kang, Peter K. (2025). Anomalous Transport in Dissolving Porous Media: Transitions Between Fickian and Non-Fickian Regimes. Retrieved from the Data Repository for the University of Minnesota (DRUM), https://hdl.handle.net/11299/270015

Family Medicine Monthly, January 2025

Univerity of Minnesota Department of Family Medicine and Community Health. (2025). Family Medicine Monthly, January 2025. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/269708

Zebra Mussel Safari: A Participatory Science Program to Guide Management Decisions

These data contain the materials provided to volunteers, including a photo analysis background template, installation instructions, an R Shiny application, a Qualtrics survey, and video tutorials. The CSV file contains zebra mussel abundance data for the 2023 season in which four counting methods were compared: manual hand counts, camera photos analyzed via CountThings, participant-submitted photos analyzed via CountThings, and camera photos manually adjusted for any errors in CountThings. The data spans across the 7 Minnesota lakes participating in the 2023 season. Additionally, a CSV file for the 2024 season is included, containing zebra mussel count data collected using the participant-submitted photos from 15 Minnesota lakes.The Zebra Mussel Safari program is a participatory science initiative aimed at monitoring zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha) populations within Minnesota lakes. This dataset includes materials designed to support and ease volunteers' participation in the program. Additionally, the dataset includes zebra mussel abundance data collected from the seven Minnesota lakes involved in the 2023 program.Funding for this project was provided by the Minnesota Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund as recommended by the Minnesota Aquatic Invasive Species Research Center (MAISRC) and the Legislative-Citizen Commission on Minnesota Resources (LCCMR).Lorentz, Sawyer; Bajcz, Alex; Weber, Megan; Duhr, Meg; Phelps, Nicholas B D. (2025). Zebra Mussel Safari: A Participatory Science Program to Guide Management Decisions. Retrieved from the Data Repository for the University of Minnesota (DRUM), https://doi.org/10.13020/rnn4-bv86

The Future of the Past (2025-02-27)

The Department of English, Linguistics & Writing Studies Celebrates The 25th Anniversary of the Klaus P. Jankofsky Fund for Medieval & Renaissance Studies. The 2025 Jankofsky Lecture; Thursday, 27 February 2025, 5:30pm; UMD Kathryn A. Martin Library Rotunda; Reception following the program; Free & Open to the Public. There are two files attached to this record, a poster and a postcard.How do we preserve the past while looking toward the future? And why? What do Medievalists at the world's most prestigious institutions of science & technology have to say about their role in educating the next generation of technical leaders? MIT Professor Arthur Bahr & Caltech Professor Jennifer Jahner discuss the relationship between the past and the future, the fragility of technology, and how Medieval Studies helps us think about technological resilience.Bahr, Arthur; Jahner, Jennifer; University of Minnesota Duluth. Department of English, Linguistics, and Writing Studies. (2025). The Future of the Past (2025-02-27). Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/270036

University of Minnesota Progress Card, 2025

University of Minnesota. (2025). University of Minnesota Progress Card, 2025. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/270002