Here at the University, we can't stay away from controversy to save our lives. We're always doing something crazy -- hacking away at tenure, trying to close General College, merging with hospitals. The...

Practice had just ended for the Gophers football team Wednesday afternoon when defensive tackle Raymond Baylor was pulled aside for what sounded like a simple question: What's the first thing you think...

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. (AP) -- There's still a pink plastic flamingo outside Best Brains Inc. The mailbox reads, simply, "BRAINS." Inside the bland, light-industrial suburban building, the walls are adorned...

University President Nils Hasselmo told more than 200 people in Rarig Center on Wednesday that the University is facing difficult times, but is well-prepared for the 21st century. "We are being tested...

The image of the University as a commuter school will soon change if Clinton Hewitt, associate vice president for master planning, has his way. Hewitt and his staff recently won the Board of Regents'...

MOSCOW (AP) -- The battle for power around an ailing Boris Yeltsin took a sharp new turn Wednesday when Russia's interior minister accused his rival, Alexander Lebed, of plotting a "mutiny" and announced...

Yu En Mui, a Carlson School of Management senior, shuffled slowly through Wednesday's graduate school fair with a handful of college brochures and an eye on her future. Like other students who are finishing...

Two professors from Duluth, who claimed the University violated their free-speech rights, lost their four-year battle Wednesday in a federal court case against the campus' former chancellor Lawrence Ianni. The...

Following a series of off-field problems involving its student-athletes within the past year, the Gophers men's athletics department plans to implement a program which would more thoroughly assess the...

DULUTH, Minn. (AP) -- Theft charges against a former University of Minnesota-Duluth athletics director will be dropped if he has no brushes with the law during the next year, under a deal agreed upon by...