When just about anyone can complete the jingle "Plop, plop, fizz, fizz..." and a cowboy appearing on a billboard without any text is universally understood as a symbol for cigarettes, one realizes just...

The more things change, the more they stay the same. After losing six seniors from last year's Big Ten Championship team, the Gophers men's swimming and diving team is once again in a similar position...

The Board of Regents got its first peek at the names of potential successors to University President Nils Hasselmo on Wednesday. Three names were forwarded to the board by the 11-member advisory search...

A timeline of some of the important events in Wacker's tenure as the Gophers football coach:Dec. 23, 1991 -- Jim Wacker is hired as Minnesota's 23rd football coach. He comes into the program following...

At a packed press conference Tuesday morning, Gophers football coach Jim Wacker took a moment to discuss how emotional a person he can be. "I cry and laugh a lot," he said. "And I'm not going to apologize...

Educators at Boynton Health Service say that about one-fourth of the University's student body drinks excessively. Amelious Whyte, a Boynton health educator, said this statistic concerns him. Students...

What was threatening to be an early-season runaway for North Dakota has turned into a six-team power struggle in the WCHA standings. The Sioux still sit atop the league with a 6-2-0 record after being...

When Gretchen Hegener was just 7 years old she used to tag along with her mother Gracia, a coach for a United States Swimming club team, and imitate the other swimmers during practice. "She just did her...

The billboards and bus signs advertising U Care have only been on display for a few months, but the University-run program has served the community's less fortunate patients for more than a decade. The...

Red and blue swirls, representing warm and cold currents, collide on a map of the North Atlantic Ocean. This ocean current simulation, called the Miami Ocean Model, is one of the research projects associated...