EVANSTON, Ill. (U-wire) -- Pressure to be on the cutting edge of technology and research is forcing some universities to raise tuition by considerably more than the national average. Most U.S. colleges...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- David Parker first started looking into child labor as a research project at the Minnesota Health Department. But it soon became his passion. The epidemiologist took a camera and, using...

Like the pillars of a pier, brothers Norman and Frank Holley have quietly withstood the current of time; they fish and watch the city change along the banks of the Mississippi. "I've come here since the...

Hours away from the midnight Tuesday deadline for filing federal and state taxes, University students prepared for the annual accounting. Dan Onchuck, a College of Liberal Arts freshman, said his parents...

The University's budget passed through the Senate unanimously on Monday after surviving a scare from an amendment to reduce its funding. Sen. Steve Morse, DFL-Dakota, presented a floor amendment that...

Gophers forward Courtney James brought his 6-foot-8, 270-pound frame to a different court on Monday morning. The sophomore starter for the Gophers men's basketball team pleaded not guilty to charges of...

Liggett Group Inc. President Bennet Lebow has gone from merchant of death to modern day crusader in just a few short weeks, thanks to his decision to break ranks with big tobacco companies and admit that...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Hundreds of students threatened to storm the German Embassy on Monday, stoning the compound and battling riot police in the first violence over a German court ruling accusing Iran...

The University's Institute on Race and Poverty aspires to expand its research and influence with new grant money. The institute recently received $240,000 from the Otto Bremer Foundation. The grant, spread...

I recently accompanied my 6-year-old sister on her birthday trip to see "Pocahontas on Ice" with her two little blonde friends. My sister loves to think that she looks like Pocahontas because she has long...