Uprooting Narratives: Legacies of Colonialism in the Neoliberal University

Hypatia ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-40
Author(s):  
Melanie Bowman ◽  
María Rebolleda-Gómez
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Wild Rice ◽  
University Of Minnesota ◽  
Disciplinary Boundaries ◽  
The University

AbstractTwo intertwined stories evince the influence of colonialism on Western universities. The first story centers on a conflict about wild rice research between the Anishinaabe people and the University of Minnesota. Underlying this conflict is a genetic notion of biological identity that facilitates the commodification of wild rice. This notion of identity is inextricably linked to agricultural control and expansion. The second story addresses the foundation of Western universities on the goals of civilization and capitalist productivity. These norms persist even in diversity efforts through a focus on individualized notions of difference rather than socially contextualized and politically significant identities. The tendency to produce both knowledge and knowers as commodities results in the alienation, individuation, and abstraction of objects of research and researchers themselves. Decolonial change demands that we learn the specific histories of our universities and disciplines, break disciplinary boundaries, and contest commodification in knowledge production.

scholarly journals A Comparative Lipidomic Analysis of Wild Rice Versus White and Brown Rice

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_2) ◽  
pp. 598-598
Author(s):  
Wes Mosher ◽  
Chi Chen
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Wild Rice ◽  
Brown Rice ◽  
University Of Minnesota ◽  
Lipidomic Analysis ◽  
Funding Sources ◽  
Rice Samples ◽  
The University ◽  
Analysis Models ◽  
Triacylglycerol Species

Abstract Objectives As a staple food in the Native American diet, wild rice (Zizania spp.) is an edible grass native to the Great Lakes region. Wild rice contains about one % of lipids. Previous studies have determined its fatty acid composition, but the composition of its lipidome was not examined in detail. This study sought to examine the lipidome of wild rice and provide a comparison to the lipidomes of white and brown rices. Methods In this study, lipid fractions of six commercially available wild rice samples (Zizania spp.), one traditionally-harvested wild rice sample (Zizania spp.), three white rice samples (Oryza spp.), and three brown rice samples (Oryza spp.) were extracted by hexane and ethyl acetate, dried in nitrogen gas, and then reconstituted in n-butanol for liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS)-based lipidomic analysis. Multivariate data analysis was performed using principal components analysis and orthogonal partial least squares-discriminant analysis. Models visualized the distinguishing features of each rice and provided information for a database search of selected markers and subsequent comparison to authentic standards. Results The multivariate model constructed by the LC-MS data of these samples showed clear separation of wild rice samples from white and brown rice samples, suggesting different lipid profiles of wild versus white and brown rice. Wild rice contained higher abundances of linolenic acid-containing triacylglycerol species, but less palmitic acid- and stearic acid-containing triacylglycerol species. Subtle differences between wild rice harvested in Minnesota versus wild rice harvested outside of Minnesota were also observed through lipidomic comparison. Interestingly, 10-demethylsqualene emerged as a prominent feature separating wild rice from white and brown rice through specific analysis of the phytosterol content of wild rice. Conclusions LC-MS-based lipidomic analysis of in-tact triacylglycerol species as well as a comprehensive profiling of the wild rice lipidome in comparison to that of white and brown rice was performed. These insights provide a compelling rationale for increasing consumer awareness of the benefits of wild rice consumption. Funding Sources W. Mosher was supported by the University of Minnesota CFANS Diversity Scholars Fellowship.

Haunting and thinking from the Utopian margins: Conversation with Avery Gordon

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 337-346
Author(s):  
Avery F Gordon ◽  
Katherine Hite ◽  
Daniela Jara
Keyword(s):  
Public Intellectual ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
University Of Minnesota ◽  
Santa Barbara ◽  
Disciplinary Boundaries ◽  
Racial Capitalism ◽  
National Memory ◽  
Fm Radio ◽  
National Stadium ◽  
The University

Avery Gordon’s work exceeds the limits of disciplinary boundaries and so does her practice. She uses the term ‘itinerant’ to describe her strategies of inhabiting multidisciplinary spaces and of critiquing the worlds, peripheries and fractures produced by racial capitalism. Gordon moves as an intellectual itinerant, creating multidirectional and interdisciplinary dialogues as a sociology scholar at the University of California, Santa Barbara, while also collaborating with artist. Since 1997, Gordon speaks as a public intellectual on her KCSB FM radio programme, ‘No Alibis’, co-hosted with Elizabeth Robinson. She is also a visiting professor at the Birkbeck School of Law, University of London. In the tradition of critical thinkers, Gordon’s work starts from a sense of urgency, exposed and developed in different ways in her major works, including her path-breaking book Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination (University of Minnesota Press), her teaching and writing on prisons and the carceral system, and her most recent book The Hawthorn Archive: Letters from the Utopian Margins (Fordham University Press). In January 2018, we invited Gordon to Santiago, Chile’s Museum of Memory and Human Rights, to deliver the talk, ‘Pensar desde los Márgenes Utópicos/Haunted Futures: The Utopian Margins’. Gordon also took a guided visit through Chile’s Estadio Nacional Memoria Nacional/National Stadium National Memory site. Here is an extended conversation on the topics that frame her work, like ghosts, haunting and utopia, and on questions that emerge from the memory studies field and that are of concern to our special issue.

The Effects of Presentation on Noise and Dental Appliances on Speech

1981 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 151-151
Author(s):  
Lillian Glass ◽  
Sharon R. Garber ◽  
T. Michael Speidel ◽  
Gerald M. Siegel ◽  
Edward Miller
Keyword(s):  
Southern California ◽  
University Of Southern California ◽  
University Of Minnesota ◽  
School Of Medicine ◽  
Southern California School ◽  
School Of Dentistry ◽  
The University

An omission in the Table of Contents, December JSHR, has occurred. Lillian Glass, Ph.D., at the University of Southern California School of Medicine and School of Dentistry, was a co-author of the article "The Effects of Presentation on Noise and Dental Appliances on Speech" along with Sharon R. Garber, T. Michael Speidel, Gerald M. Siegel, and Edward Miller of the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

Integrating Legacy Laboratory Information Systems into a Client-Server World: The University of Minnesota Clinical Workstation (CWS) Project

1995 ◽  
Vol 34 (03) ◽  
pp. 289-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. H. Sielaff ◽  
D. P. Connelly ◽  
K. E. Willard
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Clinical Decision ◽  
Database Management System ◽  
University Of Minnesota ◽  
Client Server ◽  
Clinical Workstation ◽  
Future Hospital ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The University ◽  
Laboratory Information Systems

Abstract:The development of an innovative clinical decision-support project such as the University of Minnesota’s Clinical Workstation initiative mandates the use of modern client-server network architectures. Preexisting conventional laboratory information systems (LIS) cannot be quickly replaced with client-server equivalents because of the cost and relative unavailability of such systems. Thus, embedding strategies that effectively integrate legacy information systems are needed. Our strategy led to the adoption of a multi-layered connection architecture that provides a data feed from our existing LIS to a new network-based relational database management system. By careful design, we maximize the use of open standards in our layered connection structure to provide data, requisition, or event messaging in several formats. Each layer is optimized to provide needed services to existing hospital clients and is well positioned to support future hospital network clients.

In Their Own Words: Susan Stafford

BioScience ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 70 (3) ◽  
pp. 213-219
Author(s):  
James M Verdier
Keyword(s):  
Biological Sciences ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Oral Histories ◽  
University Of Minnesota ◽  
American Institute ◽  
The University

Abstract In Their Own Words chronicles the stories of scientists who have made great contributions to their fields, particularly within the biological sciences. These short oral histories provide our readers a way to learn from and share their experiences. Each month, we will publish in the pages of BioScience and in our podcast, BioScience Talks (http://bioscienceaibs.libsyn.com), the results of these conversations. This fourth oral history is with Dr. Susan Stafford, professor and dean emerita at the University of Minnesota. She previously served as president of the American Institute of Biological Sciences. Note: Both the text and audio versions have been edited for clarity and length.

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