All it takes is a quick look at the college football standings to see that something strange is going on: Minnesota is 3-0. But that's not the only unusual occurrence on campus this fall. Gophers receiver...

While Tiffany Gates was injured last year, the Gophers women's tennis team had to face a whole season without the two-time All-Big Ten performer. As it turned out, Minnesota needed the practice. Gates,...

University graduate student Michael Schommer moved from downtown St. Paul to downtown Minneapolis in June, at about the same time University officials began phasing out the Route 52 commuter bus system...

STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) -- A shy, 73-year-old Polish poet who disavowed her Stalinist past to become an inspiration for movie makers and rock bands won the Nobel Prize for literature Thursday. Wislawa Szymborska...

There will be cheers. Jeers, too, maybe. No one is totally sure what the reaction will be on Saturday when Mike Hebert enters Huff Hall. In that University of Illinois arena, Hebert became a women's college...

It didn't take long for Gophers punter Steve Kemph to figure out Minnesota is a bit different than his hometown in Chicago. Kemph made his recruiting visit to the University last January. He remembers...

Academic Health Center officials moved closer to joining the University faculty movement to unionize Wednesday when they obtained a cease-and-desist order from the Bureau of Mediation Services. Professor...

Editor's note: This is part three in a four-part series on University services to outstate Minnesota through extension services and experiment stations.Alan Bjerga GRAND MARAIS, Minn. -- This northeastern...

Gov. Arne Carlson announced Wednesday that he has a plan to jump-start tenure discussions between the Board of Regents and University faculty members. Carlson's office has begun forming a three-member...

The two women giggled nervously as they extended their hands. "Go for it," said a man with dark glasses, "you need one." Freshmen Kate Nordstrum and Marnie McLaughlin snapped up a couple homemade brownies....