Using a supercomputer one thousand times faster than a personal computer, researchers at the University are trying to create the perfect parachute drop. Researchers from the University's Department of...

Although the Board of Regents and faculty groups might resume tenure negotiations, the drive for a union will go on. "The faculty needs a legal voice," said Tom Walsh, co-founder of the University Faculty...

While University President-elect Mark Yudof spent the day being briefed on University affairs, the current president, Nils Hasselmo, briefed legislators on the University's achievements. Hasselmo presented...

When Hyon Kim announced she would not seek reelection to the University's Board of Regents, she bemoaned the fact that legislators were only looking at her votes on tenure reform, and that from the beginning...

Tom Gunderson, former basketball coach at Harding High School in St. Paul, remembers a certain ninth-grader striding into his gym nearly 10 years ago. Cara Pearson had only begun playing basketball the...

She is always animated as she runs around, waving her arms enthusiastically and shouting out instructions to her swimmers along the edge of the University Aquatic Center pool. After 28 years in the Gophers...

State Senator Roy Terwilliger appealed to the University's College Republicans Wednesday night to help him win the governorship in 1998 when current Republican Gov. Arne Carlson's term expires. "I come...

If the faculty does not vote in favor of a union in February, they can expect another union drive in a few years. The current unionization attempt is the third in two decades. The first two attempts,...

There were two plane crashes, the Legislature was starting up, two people were murdered and two were killed in accidents, one involving a busload of kids. But what do you suppose led the Twin Cities news...

Tenure was on the minds of members of the House Higher Education Finance Division on Wednesday as University President Nils Hasselmo stumped for more federal funds. The legislators were impressed with...