Tenure code changes have been a source of conflict between University officials and faculty members for many months. But now debate has intensified among Minnesota state legislators. A University Faculty...

The bright lights that shine on the sports world dimmed a bit Friday as Minnesota Twins star Kirby Puckett announced his retirement at age 35. His sure-fire Hall of Fame career was cut dreadfully short...

The unveiling of a blue ribbon search committee to help the Board of Regents select a new president was overshadowed by the shot that rang out about a month earlier in University President Nils Hasselmo's...

A former University janitor is suing the University as well as a former co-worker after being stabbed while on the job in 1994. Mychael McDowell, a University Hospital employee from 1992 to 1994, claims...

To some people, politics is about more than serious issues and partisan debates. It is also about getting people involved and having fun while working together on political events. Minnesotans for a Democratic...

Boynton Health Service sold more birth control pills and antidepressants than any other prescription drugs in recent years. "For college populations, you should expect birth control pills to be on top,"...

An e-mail message circulating among University union employees states that changing from a semimonthly to a biweekly pay schedule would result in a 6 percent pay cut, but University officials refute the...

Psychiatry professor Marilyn Carroll has long been a target of animal rights activists for performing research on laboratory animals that she says is vital to understanding the mechanisms of drug addiction. In...

Late last year, the men's athletics department extended Jim Wacker's contract through the 1998 season, believing the Gophers football coach was doing everything right except winning. Wacker's behavioral...

LIVERMORE, Calif. (AP) -- U.S. nuclear weapons production and storage centers are vulnerable to earthquakes, tornadoes, floods and other natural disasters, government scientists warn. In worst-case scenarios,...