Michael O'Keefe has some very strong opinions about the future of the University. O'Keefe, 56, the executive vice president of the McKnight Foundation, was named the Board of Regent's newest member Monday...

As one Minnesota club team started its conference season successfully, another University club team looked for continued success in the postseason. The Minnesota's men's club soccer team, which is ranked...

MOSCOW (AP) -- With their Mars spacecraft lost in the Pacific Ocean, Russia's beleaguered space scientists tried to pinpoint what went wrong and conceded Monday they don't have the money for another try. Space...

A roundtable commissioned by Gov. Arne Carlson suggests that a super-governing board might help move Minnesota colleges forward as the new millennium approaches. Six Twin Cities business leaders, known...

With the "publish or perish" rule at major research institutions such as the University, a shift in the way university presses decide what to publish has endangered the traditional tenure-track of research...

Michigan Tech didn't do many things right while being outshot 87-37 in consecutive 3-0 losses to Minnesota this weekend. Special teams play was a big reason why the Gophers handled the Huskies so easily. Aside...

As fall quarter draws to a close, so does the search to replace University President Nils Hasselmo. Candidate interviews for the position will end Dec. 13 and the regents will announce the name of the...

If the only thing you had ever read about Cuba was Monday's letter in the Daily by Jose Gomez, "Cuba must discover democracy," you would think that Cuba was a fascist police state complete with its own...

University English professor John Hurrell said students today are more passive than in the early 1960s when anti-war activism prevailed around campus. "That was the beginning of the anti-war protests,"...

For the past week, Gophers football coach Jim Wacker said he felt like a wet washcloth. He didn't get into specifics, but the cloth he referred to probably looked like one found stuck to the bottom of...