Last October, University dental student Joel Kaines and his wife Kirsten were running around an area lake and crossed paths with a friend. That friend, whom the Kaines' jokingly refer to as a "non-runner",...

Howard Schwartz left his office in the radiology department Thursday morning to head for the turtle races. Schwartz, the department's administrative director, has sponsored a turtle in the University-Variety...

When leaders debate the past and the future of their community, it feels revolutionary. The disagreements, the calm statements and the passionate voices create a heady atmosphere. Leaders of the Twin...

Frustration with the slow progress of market reforms in Russia has spurred widespread economic anxiety and created deep fissures in the nation's political landscape. More than seven of every 10 Russians...

Former University employee Jennifer Joan May remained in jail Thursday despite a $100,000 bail set Wednesday by Hennepin County District Court Judge Robert Blaeser. Blaeser set the bail on the condition...

DULUTH (AP) -- The athletics director at the University of Minnesota--Duluth offered to arrange a payment to a student if she would decline to testify against a hockey player who assaulted her, a newspaper...

Some University students and staff members recently found their classes canceled as summer session administrators implemented a new policy allowing them to ax courses with low enrollment. This policy...

Academic Health Center Provost Frank Cerra revealed little new information about the center's reorganization efforts Wednesday at a town hall meeting for students, staff and faculty members in Mayo Auditorium. Laurel...

CorrectionA story in Monday's Daily, "Board's tenure decision may beget a faculty union," misstated the number of the top 30 research institutions in the nation with a unionized faculty. None of the...

They came bearing brown bag lunches and Bibles. They came from places as far away as Florida, and they came in caravans from the University. They wore blue jeans, three-piece suits, T-shirts or dresses. Whether...