An imaginary wheel spins in the mind of University graduate student Ruby Jones, and motivates her to raise two children while working and completing her master's degree in social work.
"Basically, (the...
High construction and maintenance costs might scuttle plans to renovate an East Bank campus landmark into student housing, University officials say.
Plans to renovate the 73-year-old Mineral Resources...
Just as the Women's NBA strives for respect and looks to knock off its chief competitor (the American Basketball League), its franchise in Cleveland does something rash by hiring former Gophers women's...
More than a few jaws dropped and plenty of eyebrows rose on May 6, when the Cleveland Rockers -- one of eight teams in the upstart Women's NBA -- announced that former Gophers coach Linda Hill-MacDonald...
It seems I have been playing amateur psychologist lately. Friends, neighbors and people I don't even know have been bombarding me with their dating woes. A typical conversation goes something like this:Friend:...
For many metro-area elementary school students, watching a chicken egg hatch or petting a piglet are unfamiliar episodes in the urban landscape.
But Tuesday and Wednesday, they had the chance to do those...
The Gophers women's swimming team announced 13 new signings for next season on Wednesday. Coach Jean Freeman called the new class the best she has ever recruited.
The new swimmers come from a broad background,...
Not only could this weekend's NCAA regionals be the last tournament of the season for the men's golf team, it could also signal the end of senior golfer Mark Halverson's Gophers career.
For the last four...
If a dinosaur fell into the ancient Mississippi River near what is now La Crosse, Wis., it might have been carried north and west by the Mississippi and dumped into the Arctic Ocean, according to a new...
As thousands of residents in northwestern Minnesota dredge through the muck to find the remains of their homes, members of the University community, including Marvin Marshak and McKinley Boston, will...
