He is a scientist with much to brag about, but University Professor of Agronomy Don Rasmusson is humble about the extent his work in barley crop varieties has affected agriculture. "Crop variety is only...

Prior to Tuesday, the Gophers football team's next two weekends were being billed as the biggest games of Coach Jim Wacker's career. Win both games, the coach stays; lose either one, he has to resign. Of...

After an entire year of being hampered by nagging injuries, the Gophers women's cross country team is finally healthy -- just in time for their biggest meet of the season. On Saturday the Gophers will...

The Gophers women's basketball team, down to eight scholarship players, has the most notable labor shortage of any University athletic team. But it doesn't have the only one. The volleyball team started...

University researchers are designing a $50 million facility in northern Minnesota to answer one of the most vexing questions in physics -- whether neutrinos have mass. The neutrino is sometimes called...

Some University Hospital workers are expected to file suit against the University in federal court today demanding that the school live up to a contract it signed with union employees. The suit, which...

The strength of any union is its power to strike. At three of the campuses at the University of California next week, graduate student instructors intend to test their strength by marching out of class...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The United States wants warring factions in Zaire to promise a cease-fire before U.S. and allied troops agree to move in and assure the delivery of relief aid to a million refugees,...

When she heard the news that Minnesota would play Nebraska in the first round of the NCAA soccer tournament, Gophers senior Mikki Denney thought she was dreaming. A native of Omaha, Neb., Denney had been...

Six meets and two-and-a-half months of preparation have passed since the men's cross country team started its season. Saturday morning in Champaign, Ill., the Gophers will race in the most important competition...