The University's Faculty Senate sent a message to the Board of Regents at its meeting Thursday by rejecting the regents' tenure proposal for the Law School. But, after a close vote, they also left the...

All eyes at the University's Clinical Research Center will be focused on a teenage boy from Illinois this weekend. On Sunday, 13-year-old Daniel Mikos will be the first person to take a recently developed...

The Gophers volleyball team will take an ambitious trip this weekend. The journey will cover both the north and south poles of the Big Ten standings, as the Gophers travel to first-place Michigan State...

You have to wonder if North Carolina women's soccer coach Anson Dorrance has a little Genghis Khan in him, the way his team has dominated the college ranks over the last decade. Genghis, who oversaw an...

Students who feel overwhelmed at the University can find plenty of people who share the frustration. A 1996 campus survey reported that only 22 percent of the students thought that the University placed...

When Karal Ann Marling was a child, her mother entered one of her drawings in a coloring contest. Her reward for winning the competition was a trip to meet Walt Disney. "He said, 'Someday maybe you'll...

Eight hours and seven time zones away on a farm outside of Illo, Finland, Minna Haronoja's parents sit and wait. Their daughter is thousands of miles away in America, a strange and foreign land to them....

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) -- A new planet that breaks all the rules about how and where planets form has been found in orbit of a double star system about 70 light years from Earth in a constellation commonly...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Doctors, listen to your patients and nurses. You can learn something. Take Dr. Joseph Weber, a Mayo Clinic anesthesiologist. He listened, checked out what they told him, and came up...

If people want to fight, they will fight. No amount of intervention, even by the world's sole superpower, will stop them. And of all forms of conflict, ethnic clashes are the most deep-seated and difficult...