"I feel a lot better now that I know," concludes a young woman in a TV commercial for Confide, the first do-it-yourself HIV test. Granted, for the overwhelming majority of people who will test negative...

Football players have a reputation for being tough. But look closer: They wear pads, play only once a week and -- here in Minnesota, anyway -- have a big white Teflon dome over their heads. The Gophers...

MOSCOW (AP) -- Sacked by a livid Boris Yeltsin amid charges he was plotting a coup, national security chief Alexander Lebed wasted no time Thursday serving his own gruff notice: He will be out to campaign...

Two Faculty Senate committees debated but could not decide whether to take definitive action regarding two proposed plans for revisions to the Law School's tenure code. At a Board of Regents meeting last...

Until last week, it didn't really matter. It wasn't much of an issue. But, the Gophers football team is suddenly in a hurry to improve its pass rush. The numbers show the need. Through its first five...

The men's golf team will finish its fall season on the road this Sunday and Monday at the Duke Invitational in Durham, N.C. The 15-team tournament includes a list of tough southern schools along with...

Looking down from space at the Himalayan Mountains and an erupting volcano in the Indonesian archipelago is old hat for some astronauts, but University students shared the view from space Thursday at...

Steve DeBus and Judd Lambert don't mind sharing. As half-time starting goaltenders for their respective teams last season -- DeBus with Minnesota, Lambert with Colorado College -- each player flourished. But...

A University program is bringing research results into classrooms and combating child abuse. The Child Abuse Prevention Studies program is "the only program that we know of in the country that's using...

Twenty-four years ago a college junior named Jean Freeman joined the Minnesota women's swimming and diving program as an assistant coach. When she took over as head coach for the 1973-74 Gophers swim...