College football fans were shocked a few weeks ago when Arizona State upset two-time defending national champion Nebraska. It seems fans have watched the Cornhuskers dominate for so long that they forgot...

HELSINKI, Finland -- He is an unlikely rocker. And the dapper, graying Finnish academic ensconced in a downtown recording studio is making an unusual record. Its title: "Rocking in Latin." Jukka Ammondt,...

A lot has changed since the last time Northwestern and Minnesota faced each other on the football field. The most notable difference, of course, is that the Wildcats are now the defending Big Ten champions. But...

The naming of Minnesota's first women's hockey coach will likely come at the end of October or early November, said Donna Olson, the chairwoman of the committee assigned to seek out candidates for the...

Southern Minnesota is Republican country and has elected Republican state senators for years. One University student hopes to change that tradition, however. Paul Kluge, a University Institute of Technology...

University President Nils Hasselmo told about 60 freshmen he was "as timid as you could be" when he started college. The outgoing University leader encouraged new students to become leaders themselves...

The first of two debates between presidential candidates Bob Dole and Bill Clinton on Sunday provided few surprises and did little to change the minds of University voters. "It was the battle of the soundbites,"...

Since the beginning of the season, the Gophers football team has described itself as closer and more unified than last year's squad. That became apparent at the end of its 30-27 loss at Purdue on Saturday....

The University Law School announced Monday that it was the recipient of a grant of record-breaking size. New York-based Edna McConnell Clark Foundation is donating $10 million to establish the Institute...

One size does not fit all, even when the item is office equipment. The University's Environmental Health and Safety Division has spent two years studying how to design office equipment to fit users' individual...