It's generally a given that a hockey team will struggle between the pipes the season after a four-year starting goaltender graduates. Things certainly looked that way for Minnesota-Duluth this year. The...

As a professor at the University of Michigan, new College of Liberal Arts Dean Steven Rosenstone liked doing something many of his colleagues didn't -- teaching introductory-level classes. One of his...

University sociology professor William Brustein remembers how his aunt burst into tears when he bought a Volkswagen -- a German-manufactured car -- at age 16. His aunt, one of nine children born to a...

The men's golf team finished its fall season with a seventh-place tie Monday at the Duke Invitational in Durham, N.C. The Gophers final round dropped them from a sixth-place finish to a seventh-place tie...

A man and a woman were killed in a motorcycle crash early Monday morning on West River Road Parkway near Fairview Hospital, said the University Police. The motorcycle went off the road and crashed into...

At a media luncheon earlier this season, Gophers football coach Jim Wacker said split end Ryan Thelwell has "probably the most beautiful smile in the world." That smile was mostly absent following the...

The University might be moving closer to accomplishing its goals of increasing minority enrollment, based on a student registration report released Monday. The University report, which provides official...

Casey Hankinson has never been known as one of the quieter members of the Gophers hockey team. Whether it's on the ice or in the locker room, Hankinson speaks his mind. Even as a sophomore on a team filled...

A federal jury acquitted Dr. John Najarian last February of 15 felony counts and a federal judge dismissed six others, including conspiracy to defraud the government in his handling of the organ-transplant...

It's been five years since the demise of the Soviet Union. The Cold War is finished. Not a single nuclear missile remains aimed at U.S. cities and industrial centers. Even the most hawkish commentators...