Podcast appearances and mentions of Elmer L Andersen

March of the Governors, Governor #30 Elmer L. Andersen (Series Podcast #33) For Elmer L. Andersen, his single term as governor (1961-1963) marked a brief episode in a life of remarkable accomplishment. From modest beginnings in Muskegon, Michigan, Andersen rose from salesman for HB Fuller Co. to the leader who made the company a giant. He served with distinction in the state legislature, then defeated the popular and effective governor Orville Freeman in 1960. His great accomplishment as governor was reform of taconite taxation. He was a Republican far to the left of his party. In 1962, he lost the closest election in Minnesota history. He moved on to a career in philanthropy and a very long life.

The pandemic has disrupted the global supply chain. Manufacturing, transportation and logistics have been affected by delays, labor shortages and rising prices. And that could impact everything from the price you're paying for groceries to whether you can get a turkey for Thanksgiving.  MPR News host Angela Davis breaks down exactly what is going on with the supply chain and how it affects us.  Guests:  Kingshuk Sinha is a professor and chair of the Supply Chain and Operations Department at the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management. He is also the U's Elmer L. Andersen Chair in Sustainable Supply Chain.  Chris Farrell is the senior economics contributor for MPR News.  Christine Lantinen is the president and owner of candy company Maud Borup. Subscribe to the MPR News with Angela Davis podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or RSS. Use the audio player above to listen to the full conversation.

After a 42-year career — during which she founded one of the state’s first women-owned architecture firms and impacted some of the Twin Cities’ most notable buildings — Linda McCracken-Hunt has retired from her architecture career. She started her career after graduating from the University of Minnesota with a Bachelor of Architecture in 1978. She spent time at Cuningham Architects; Architectural Alliance, now Alliiance; and Ankeny Kell Architects, and then returned to the university where she was eventually appointed university architect. McCracken-Hunt left the university to join Studio Five Architects, a firm that she co-owned with her husband, Tom Hunt. Her most recent employer, JLG Architects, called her a “pioneer” of women-owned architect firms. With Studio Five, she led teams that worked on the university’s Recreation and Wellness Center expansion, Phillips Community Center and Aquatics Center project, and U.S. Bank Stadium construction. She also provided owner representation services to the Regions Hospital expansion, Elmer L. Andersen Human Services Building and Penfield Apartment projects. JLG Architects acquired Studio Five in 2016, and McCracken-Hunt joined as a principal architect. Here, her projects included Frogtown Community Center and the Eau Claire City Hall. Throughout her career, she also served in several positions with the American Institute of Architects and received membership to its College of Fellows in 2009. The award is considered one of the highest honors in the profession. Out of all the projects that McCracken-Hunt has impacted, community centers are her favorite, as she told reporter Kelly Busche in this episode of Beyond the Skyline.

See a video preview of the Libraries' current exhibit, "A Woman's Place: Women and Work," at the Elmer L. Andersen Library at the University of Minnesota. The exhibit runs through March 6.

A new exhibit opens at the Elmer L. Andersen Library on Friday, March 29, " Calling to Question: 150 Years of Liberal Arts Education at the University of Minnesota, " part of a year-long celebration, " Shattering Expectations. " The exhibit, created by the University of Minnesota Twin Cities Campus, College of Liberal Arts in conjunction with the University Libraries, was culled from the archives to bring forward the rich heritage and personal stories from this 150 year legacy. The work of unearthing the human interest stories stored away in 208 boxes of CLA archives fell on one very dedicated graduate student in the Heritage Studies and Public History program, Noah Barth. He joins us here on Radio Gallery. In curating the exhibit Barth focused on unique stories of moving and removing barriers and of questioning. A favorite is from 1969 about the first Ojibwe language teachers in the newly formed American Indian Studies Department. Led by women who were not traditional academics but

Take a sneak video peek at our current exhibit at Elmer L. Andersen Library: The Best from Pen and Press, which includes 3,000-year-old cuneiform tablets, a 16th century "Remembrancer Scroll," and much more. The materials come from the James Ford Bell Library, the Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine, and the University Libraries' Rare Book collections.

Dr. Mark Soderstrom of SUNY Empire State College discusses his dissertation work on race, segregation, and housing at the University of Minnesota in the early 20th century, as well as an exhibit based on his research at the University of Minnesota's Elmer L. Andersen Library Atrium Gallery entitled "A Campus Divided: Progressives, Anti-Communists, Racism, and Anti-Semitism at the University of Minnesota, 1930-1942." The exhibit runs through November 30th of this year.

Watch this video preview of our current exhibit, "Engraved in Copper: The Art of Mapping Minnesota," which features unique engraved copper plates used to print topographic maps of Minnesota in the early 1900s, surveying and mapmaking techniques, and government documents related to the process. The exhibit runs through May 22 at Elmer L. Andersen Library.

It's been 50 years since the Immigration History Research Center and Archives was founded at the University of Minnesota, making it the oldest and largest entity devoted to preserving and understanding immigration experiences. In celebration, the IHRCA has an exhibit on display through January 22, 2016 at the U's Elmer L. Andersen Library.

Curator Linnea Anderson and Exhibit Designer Darren Terpstra discuss the University of Minnesota Libraries exhibit, "The Job is Never Done": Fifty Years of Documenting Social Welfare History. The exhibit runs through May 22, 2015 at Elmer L. Andersen Library on the west bank of the University's Twin Cities campus.

Ed Bok Lee was the featured speaker at the April 17, 2013 Pankake Poetry Reading at Elmer L. Andersen Library. 

The Land Grant Agricultural College Act — known as the Morrill Act and signed by President Lincoln in 1862 — set aside public lands, the sale of which were used to fund public colleges to "promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes." The Act and subsequent funds from the land grand helped save the then-struggling University of Minnesota, which for several reasons, including financial debt, closed a few years after it was chartered in 1851. "The Morrill Act came at a time when the University [of Minnesota] was in dire straits," said University Archivist Erik Moore, co-curator of the exhibit, "For the Common Good," now on display at the U's Elmer L. Andersen Library. "The University had closed after a short opening as a preparatory department." Moore added that the University was hit hard by the 1857 financial panic and was in debt after the construction of its first building, then called the Main Building. Morrill Act, Legislature helped save the U Soon, however, the Morrill Act, coupled with action by the Minnesota Legislature, helped save the University. "The state Legislature, in 1864, brought together a three-member Board of Regents," said Assistant Archivist Erin George, co-curator of the exhibit. "And their task was to get the University out of its deep indebtedness." Led by John Sargent Pillsbury, the Board completed its work, and the University, by the late 1860s, prepared to re-open, with the land-grant mission prominent in its plans. By 1869, the University's first president, William Watts Folwell, had been hired, the preparatory department was re-opened, and plans were underway to open University colleges with those in agriculture and mechanic arts garnering special attention along with instruction in military tactics. This early and turbulent time is documented in the exhibit, "For the Common Good." The exhibit is based on material from the collections of the University of Minnesota Archives, and it examines the ongoing question: How has the University sought to fulfill its role as a "land grant" university. More information "For the Common Good" is on display at the Andersen Library's Atrium Gallery through Nov. 30, 2012. For more information, contact the University of Minnesota Archives at 612-624-0562. View a map of Andersen location U of M Archives and Special Collections