Many studies done on girls just entering puberty find that girls' participation in science courses drops off severely as they enter their teens. Susan Marino, head of the Program for Women in the Institute...

In hopes of talking further with the University about its steam plant plans, the Minneapolis City Council decided Friday to postpone voting on a proposed zoning code amendment until September. If passed,...

The debate about cuts to welfare programs at all levels of government has thus far focused on the minor technical differences separating Republican and Democratic proposals. Zero critical attention has...

University officials hope a proposed meeting between Board of Regents Chairman Thomas Reagan and Minneapolis Mayor Sharon Sayles Belton will reconcile differences about the future of an outdated steam...

Gophers basketball coach Clem Haskins was in earshot of the pipe bomb explosion in Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta. Haskins, who is an assistant coach and chief administrator of the U.S. men's basketball...

Austin, Minn., is a large union town, with a big Hormel plant and a powerful Hormel union. The town has consistently voted for Democrats for years, but is completely surrounded by Republican districts...

A man charged with the murder of a University student is still in jail after a Hennepin County District Judge refused Wednesday to lower his bail. Louis Cardona Buggs is charged with murdering Kami Talley...

Perhaps the only thing worse than the shameless commercialization of the Olympics has been NBC's overt nationalism. In this Olympic year, the ideals of pure competition and international spectacle have...

CHICAGO -- In the ever-evolving world of college football, the Big Ten had become the country's land of antiquity. It was the one place where the game's old ways stood and tradition ruled. But that appears...

To University researcher Katie Schmitz, household tasks considered tedious by some are activities that could provide insight into how women burn calories during their daily routines. And in the wake of...