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Resources for Journalists
The University Public Relations team for the Twin Cities campus is often the first call for journalists who seek help connecting to faculty experts or who wish to receive information about the University of Minnesota. From news releases to expert alerts to interviews on timely topics, University Public Relations provides the resources journalists need for their reporting in all areas of public interest.
Social Sciences
The March on Washington
August 28 marks the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington For Jobs and Freedom. Six decades later, many of the original issues that spurred the march, including poverty and unemployment, remain in the national spotlight.
Three questions with Truman Scholars Carter Yost and Joleece Pecore
Two University of Minnesota students selected for the prestigious Truman Scholarship talk about where they’ve been and what they hope to accomplish.
New studies push back evidence for open habitats in Africa by more than 10 million years
Two new studies recently published in Science outline a paleoecological reconstruction of early ape fossil sites in eastern Africa dated to the Early Miocene — between 23 and 16 million years ago — showing early apes lived in a wide variety of habitats, including open habitats like scrublands and wooded grasslands that existed 10 million years earlier than previously known.