Weekly Question-and-Answer Extension Radio Show Helps Listeners Adopt Environmentally Sound Horticulture Practices

Cooperative Extension has a long history of using radio broadcasts in educational programming. The Minneapolis, MN-based CBS affiliate WCCO Radio 830AM contacted the University of Minnesota Extension (UMNExt) in 2013 to reinstate an 8:00 AM Saturday live gardening show titled “Smart Garden”. After several years of doing the radio show, we wanted to determine the effectiveness of getting information to listeners, what people were doing differently because of what they heard on the show, and how much they used the Extension’s resources after listening to the program. After analyzing 410 responses to an online survey, we found 78% of respondents reported they frequently or always learned something new when listening, and 56% reported adopting environmentally important practices, such as pollinator gardens, less chemical use, better lawn care, water conservation, and removing invasive plants. We concluded that this educational programming was making a positive impact on consumer horticulture practices.

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History of Radiation Heat Transfer Solution Procedure using Finite-Volume Method at the University of Minnesota

Proceeding of Proceedings of CHT-15. 6th International Symposium on ADVANCES IN COMPUTATIONAL HEAT TRANSFER , May 25-29, 2015, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA ◽

10.1615/ichmt.2015.intsympadvcomputheattransf.1870 ◽

2015 ◽

Author(s):

John C. Chai

Keyword(s):

Heat Transfer ◽

Finite Volume Method ◽

Finite Volume ◽

Radiation Heat Transfer ◽

Solution Procedure ◽

University Of Minnesota ◽

Radiation Heat ◽

History Of ◽

Volume Method ◽

The University

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Book Reviews

Transfers ◽

10.3167/trans.2020.1002309 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 10 (2-3) ◽

pp. 115-131

Author(s):

Lucy Baker ◽

Paola Castañeda ◽

Matthew Dalstrom ◽

Ankur Datta ◽

Tanja Joelsson ◽

...

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Common Good ◽

University Of Minnesota ◽

Medical Travel ◽

Bicycle Infrastructure ◽

Political Economies ◽

History Of ◽

Duke University ◽

Caribbean Tourism ◽

The University

Nicholas A. Scott, Assembling Moral Mobilities: Cycling, Cities and the Common Good (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2020), 288 pp., 38 illus., $50 John Stehlin, Cyclescapes of the Unequal City: Bicycle Infrastructure and Uneven Development (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019), 328 pp., 24 photos, 11 maps, 9 tables, $27 Cecilia Vindrola-Padros, Critical Ethnographic Perspectives on Medical Travel (New York: Routledge, 2019), 161 pp., $36.77 Nicola Frost and Tom Selwyn, eds., Travelling Towards Home: Mobilities and Homemaking (New York: Berghahn, 2018), 182 pp., 10 illus., 1 table, $110 Peter Cox, Cycling: A Sociology of Vélomobility (Abingdon: Routledge, 2019), 200 pp., 2 B/W illus., £120.00 (ebook £40.49) Lesley Murray and Susana Cortés-Morales, Children's Mobilities: Interdependent, Imagined, Relational (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), 307 pp., 10 illus., $89.99 Jocelyne Guilbault and Timothy Rommen, eds., Sounds of Vacation: Political Economies of Caribbean Tourism (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019), 234 pp., $25.95 John Krige, ed., How Knowledge Moves: Writing the Transnational History of Science and Technology (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2019), 408 pp., 11 illus., $40

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The Cambridge Shorter History of India. By J. Allan, Keeper of the Department of Coins and Medals, British Museum, Sir T. Wolseley Haig, Lecturer in Persian in the School of Oriental Studies, University of London, H. H. Dodwell, Professor of the History and Culture of the British Dominions in Asia, the University of London. Edited by H. H. Dodwell. (New York: Macmillan Company. 1934. Pp. xix, 970. $4.00.) and Ceylon under British Rule, 1795–1932, with an Account of the East India Company's Embassies to Kandy, 1762–1795. By Lennox A. Mills, Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota. (New York: Oxford University Press. 1933. Pp. vi, 331. $5.00.)

The American Historical Review ◽

10.1086/ahr/42.1.91-a ◽

1936 ◽

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

British Museum ◽

Assistant Professor ◽

University Of Minnesota ◽

Oxford University ◽

British Rule ◽

History Of ◽

Oriental Studies ◽

The University ◽

Oxford University Press

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A History of France: from the Earliest Times fo the Treaty of Versailles. By William S. Davis, Ph.D., Professor of History in the University of Minnesota. (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. 1919. Pp. xv, 642. $4.00)

The American Historical Review ◽

10.1086/ahr/26.2.313 ◽

1921 ◽

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

University Of Minnesota ◽

Treaty Of Versailles ◽

History Of ◽

The University

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Migration History as a Transcultural History of Societies

Journal of Migration History ◽

10.1163/23519924-00102005 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

pp. 121-135

Author(s):

Dirk Hoerder

Keyword(s):

Chicago School ◽

Columbia University ◽

University Of Minnesota ◽

Franz Boas ◽

Social Distance Scale ◽

Migration History ◽

Ethnic History ◽

History Of ◽

Multicultural Perspectives ◽

The University

As ‘ethnic’ history — the nation-to-ethnic-ghetto version of migrant strategies — came to include the process of migration and the socialization, the ‘roots’ of the field were still traced to the Chicago School and Oscar Handlin. European scholarship in the initial stages centred on emigration to North America and followed us approaches. I discuss, to the 1950s, European and Canadian epistemologies of the field and briefly refer to research in other parts of the world. The essays discuss neglected, theoretically and conceptually complex origins of migration studies and history in the us: (1) the Chicago Women’s School of Sociology of Hull House reformers and women economists from the 1880s and the cluster of interdisciplinary scholars at Columbia University (Franz Boas et al.); (2) scholars at the University of Minnesota who included the migrants’ societies of origin; as well as (3) scholars in California (Bogardus, social distance scale) and (4) British Columbia who recovered data collected in the 1920s and read them in modern multicultural perspectives. Against these many threads the emphasis by Chicago scholars, E. Park in particular, and O. Handlin on disorganization and ‘marginal men’ are assessed.

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A History of the Settlement of German Mennonites from Russia at Mountain Lake, Minnesota. By FERDINAND P. SCHULTZ, University of Minnesota. (Minneapolis: published by the author at the University of Minnesota. 1938. Pp. 119. $1.25.) The Mennonites in Iowa. By MELVIN GINGERICH and History of the Mennonites of the Franconia Conference. By JOHN C. WENGER

The American Historical Review ◽

10.1086/ahr/45.3.665 ◽

1940 ◽

Vol 45 (3) ◽

pp. 665-667

Author(s):

J. C. Meyer

Keyword(s):

Mountain Lake ◽

University Of Minnesota ◽

History Of ◽

The University

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The Roots of the War: a Non-Technical History of Europe, 1870–1914 A. D. By William Stearns Davis, Ph.D., in collaboration with William Anderson, Ph.D., and Mason W. Tyler, Ph.D., of the University of Minnesota. (New York: Century Company. 1918. Pp. viii, 557. $1.50.)

The American Historical Review ◽

10.1086/ahr/24.1.94 ◽

1918 ◽

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

University Of Minnesota ◽

History Of ◽

History Of Europe ◽

The University

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A History of Agriculture in Europe and America. By Norman Scott Brien Gras, Professor of Economic History in the University of Minnesota. (New York: F. S. Crofts and Company. 1925. Pp. xxvii, 444. $3.50)

The American Historical Review ◽

10.1086/ahr/31.2.299 ◽

1926 ◽

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Economic History ◽

University Of Minnesota ◽

History Of Agriculture ◽

History Of ◽

The University

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Natural History of Tuberculosis in the Human Body* *From the School of Public Health and the Department of Internal Medicine, the Medical and Graduate Schools, University of Minnesota. Prepared with the aid of the H. Longstreet Taylor Tuberculosis Research Fund, provided by the Minnesota Tuberculosis and Health Association, the J. Arthur Myers Research Fund of the University of Minnesota, a gift by Dr. A. A. Leonidoff and funds honoring Edith Corson Gould, Kaye Swedien, and Marguerite Myers Whaley.

Diseases of the Chest ◽

10.1378/chest.50.2.120 ◽

1966 ◽

Vol 50 (2) ◽

pp. 120-132 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

J. ARTHUR MYERS ◽

J.E. BEARMAN ◽

ALMA C. BOTKINS

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Internal Medicine ◽

Natural History ◽

Human Body ◽

Research Fund ◽

University Of Minnesota ◽

School Of Public Health ◽

Health Association ◽

History Of ◽

The University

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Of Psychometric Means: Starke R. Hathaway and the Popularization of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory

Science in Context ◽

10.1017/s0269889714000337 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 28 (1) ◽

pp. 77-98 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Rebecca Schilling ◽

Stephen T. Casper

Keyword(s):

Vietnam War ◽

Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory ◽

The United States ◽

Personality Inventory ◽

Mental Illnesses ◽

University Of Minnesota ◽

Psychometric Instruments ◽

Psychometric Tool ◽

History Of ◽

The University

ArgumentThe Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) was developed at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, in the 1930s and 1940s. It became a highly successful and highly controversial psychometric tool. In professional terms, psychometric tools such as the MMPI transformed psychology and psychiatry. Psychometric instruments thus readily fit into the developmental history of psychology, psychiatry, and neurology; they were a significant part of the narrative of those fields’ advances in understanding, intervening, and treating people with mental illnesses. At the same time, the advent of such tools also fits into a history of those disciplines that records the rise of obsessional observational and evaluative techniques and technologies in order to facilitate patterns of social control that became typical during the Progressive Era in the United States and after. It was those patterns that also nurtured the resistance to psychometrics that emerged during the Vietnam War and after.

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