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Stevens County Food Assessment
Get PDFThis report is the culmination of a year-long community food assessment conducted by staff, students, and faculty at the University of Minnesota Morris, and informed by an advisory council made up of key local stakeholders. The main goal of the community food assessment is to describe food security in Stevens County at both community and individual scales.
This assessment examines what food is grown in the county, what food is available, where food can be obtained in various forms, accessibility and affordability of food, as well as county residents’ experiences with and thoughts and suggestions about food. Findings summarized below rely on several different types of data, including a household food security survey, a survey of prices and availability at area grocery stores, personal communications and observations, and secondary data (e.g., from the US Census Bureau). More details about data collection and the key findings presented below are available in the full version of this report.
Based on the (available and newly collected) data for this community food assessment, it is clear that Stevens County does not fit the definition of community food security because many residents are food insecure, food insecure residents tend to share characteristics of marginalized populations, and little of the food consumed in Stevens County is produced and processed in Stevens County. Challenges with community food security are of course not necessarily uniquely to Stevens County, MN as they are at least in part a product of the way our regional, national, and global food supply chains presently function.https://digitalcommons.morris.umn.edu/cst/1083/thumbnail.jp
LeAnn Dean Interview, 2022
Get PDFLeAnn Dean worked at the University of Minnesota Morris Briggs Library from 1991-2022, where she was a reference librarian from 1991-1993, head of public services from 1994-2000, and director from 2000-2022. LeAnn led the library as director for over two decades, including during the COVID-19 pandemic.https://digitalcommons.morris.umn.edu/stories/1086/thumbnail.jp
Scheduling Aircraft Departures to Avoid Enroute Congestion
Get PDFWhen scheduled flights are forecast to overcrowd sections of enroute airspace, an air traffic control authority may need to delay departures. Mixed integer linear programming can be used to compute a schedule that resolves the congestion while bringing the sum of all delays to a minimum. Standard linear programming constraint formulations for such scheduling problems, however, have poor run times for instances of realistic size. A new constraint formulation based on cycles and paths through a route graph reduces run times in computational experiments. It shows particularly strong performance for schedules that approach the worst-case solution times in standard formulations
The Effects of Expectation Violations in the Workplace: Why Do Fresh Graduates and New Employees Leave?
Get PDFFor years, recent graduates and new employees have been faced with a work environment that is different from their expectations when they first choose a job or enter the workforce. The factors that new employees perceive as violating their expectations in the workplace may cause employees to lose interest in their careers, decrease job satisfaction, lose the momentum of completing work, and even wish to leave their jobs. This study was conducted through a questionnaire and quantitative analysis, applying expectancy violations theory (EVT) to recent graduates and new employers who are preparing or just starting their careers. Both the participants’ satisfaction levels with various components of their expectations and the impact of these on the likelihood of announcing their decision to leave their jobs are investigated in the questionnaire. Although there are some limitations to the questionnaire distribution, the data analyzed from the survey results indicate that people’s expectations of various factors in the workplace do influence their decision to terminate their careers. Salary and compensation and opportunities for promotions in the workplace ranked first and second, respectively. At the same time, the article offers some insights for new job seekers or recent graduates who are about to become new job seekers. The goal is to increase the recognition and awareness of expectation violation, as well as its relationship to job satisfaction and performance, ultimately helping fresh graduates and new hires reduce the negative impact of expectation violation.https://digitalcommons.morris.umn.edu/urs_2022/1003/thumbnail.jp
ID133 Oral History
Get PDFMan from Mexico born in the early 60s. He describes the differences in the economic statuses of the different cities where he lived in Mexico. An agricultural engineer by training, he describes positive experiences in his job working with porcine breeding. He has positive experiences to share about life in the Upper Midwest for him and his family.https://digitalcommons.morris.umn.edu/unitingcultures/1047/thumbnail.jp
ID137 Oral History
Get PDFHonduran woman born in the mid-50s. Came to the U.S. during the pandemic with one of two granddaughters to reunite her with her dad. Describes a difficult childhood of poverty and loneliness after her parents died. Immigration story includes separation from her teenage granddaughter, who navigated the buses because she is able to read, as they tried to enter the U.S. under Trump’s immigration policies.https://digitalcommons.morris.umn.edu/unitingcultures/1052/thumbnail.jp
Borders of Brazil: Translation and Race in Benjamín de Garay\u27s Los sertones
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Advanced Functionalized Materials for Applications in Environmental and Human Health
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Letting the Future In: Faculty Advising as an Institutional Strategy
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ID105 Oral History
Get PDF3rd generation Mexican-American woman born in Minnesota but grew up mostly in Texas. Moved to St. James when she was in high school. She lives and works there with her family.https://digitalcommons.morris.umn.edu/unitingcultures/1005/thumbnail.jp