Jazz legend Herbie Hancock gave several demonstrations Friday of the importance of timing to a University student audience at the Ted Mann Concert Hall. Hancock, who many critics consider the most prominent...

While the NCAA has been constantly changing its academic requirements for incoming freshmen in recent years, student-athletes with grade point averages over 3.5 probably didn't give any new regulations...

DENVER (AP) -- A judge cleared the way for prosecutors to seek the death penalty in the Oklahoma City bombing trial, rejecting defense arguments that the punishment is cruel and unusual. U.S. District...

At a Tuesday animal rights rally, about 20 members of the Student Organization for Animal Rights debuted their new strategy to single out University researchers for their experiments on live animals. "We...

The financial hot water Bruce McLeod bathed in as athletics director of Minnesota-Duluth may be spilling over to the WCHA. The WCHA's executive council, headed this year by interim Duluth athletics director...

The gala opening of the $62.7 million Basic Sciences and Biomedical Engineering Building on October 11 could usher in a new era of interdisciplinary scientific research at the University. Gov. Carlson,...

Coming out of Burnsville High School, Adam Bailey wanted to be a place-kicker for a college football team. Unfortunately, not too many schools thought he could kick. OK, minor setback. But he wasn't going...

A former assistant professor who won a 1994 case against the University in the Minnesota Court of Appeals has filed a second claim with the appeals court claiming she was wrongfully denied tenure. She...

The days of students sawing and hammering lumber to build lofts in University dorm rooms are over. Beginning this fall, students in the residence halls may no longer construct their own lofts. But the...

ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) -- A surgical implant soon may offer some people with partial paralysis the chance to restore their ability to grasp a fork or a pen, even to paint. Scientific advisers recommended...