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About Roy Wilkins

The Magic Seeds

By Chris Coughlan-Smith, orignally published in the January-February 2002 issue of Minnesota magazine.

Endless Energy

By Burl Gilyard, originally published in the May-June 2004 issue of Minnesota magazine.

By Burl Gilyard, originally published in the July-August 2002 issue of Minnesota magazine.

An unassuming door, painted black with a number missing from its address, stands along Cedar Avenue on Minneapolis’s West Bank. Behind the door, a narrow flight of stairs covered in drab gray carpet leads to an office and what looks like a receptionist’s desk. There’s no receptionist; faint classical music greets visitors. From somewhere in the back of the office, a man answers the phone, "Rapson Architects."

With a sketch on the Wall of Discovery, William Pedersen's groundbreaking design for the Shanghai World Financial Center is an element on the Wall of Discovery, to be unveiled September 29, 2006.

Diet and Health Pioneer Dies at 100

Obituary originally published in Minnesota magazine, January-February 2004

Alumnus's Invention Put Pencil to Paper

By Chris Coughlan-Smith, originally printed in the May-June, 1999, issue of Minnesota magazine.

Text taken from the UMAA ad campaign "Changing the World One Graduate at a Time."

Would he have invented GORE-TEX if he had gone to school in, say, Arizona?

Text from a UMAA advertising series "One Graduate at a Time."