Editor's Note: This is the second in a weekly series, discussing the diverse neighborhoods surrounding the University's Twin Cities campus. On many spring afternoons, Dinkytown becomes a bustling hub...

Tunnels connecting the ecology building basement on the St. Paul Campus with other buildings used to be long corridors of dull space. Now, images on the walls depicting animal behaviors, plant communities...

Voters in Wednesday and Thursday's all-campus elections have spoken, and they declared that they want action -- at least 12 months of it. Jigar Madia and his running mate Bridgette Murphy, who attempted...

When Rimon Bengiamin watches television footage of his hometown, he says, it doesn't seem real. A University sophomore and native of Grand Forks, N.D., Bengiamin said he has to strain to recognize well-known...

Last weekend senior thrower Dani Parkos was in Walnut, Calif., with the rest of the Gopher women's track and field team competing in the Mt. SAC Relays. Even though Parkos was at the meet physically,...

An informal poll of Gophers softball players concerning the team's hitting in the past seven games would likely draw these results: "Unproductive" -- 0 votes. "Unproductive is not a strong enough adjective"...

The University will give time off to students, faculty and staff who wish to join a campus effort to rebuild flood-ravaged areas in Minnesota and North Dakota, officials announced Thursday. The plan calls...

About four years into her dissertation research, University neuroscience student Lois Kehl's investigation into pain-transmitting neurons took a surprising turn. In the study published in today's Science...

MA'RIB, Yemen (AP) -- When American diplomat Haynes Mahoney landed in the lair of Yemeni kidnappers, he was greeted with neither ransom demand nor brandished Kalashnikov. Instead, a poem was recited in...

Golf has been a major part of sophomore men's golfer Bill Thompson's life since he was a toddler. He got his first set of golf clubs when he was just 4 years old and grew up playing with current PGA competitor...