This year, more than half the Institute of Technology's annual budget -- nearly $78 million -- came from research grants. This is more money than the college receives from all other funding sources combined,...

When an elementary school class visited campus Friday, University students tied white strings around the children's wrists. The significance of the strings was just one thing Marcy Open School students...

Doug Johnson cradled his 3-week-old granddaughter, Paige Vosson, while grandson Dillon Vosson, 4, placed a daisy at the foot of the Minnesota Vietnam Veterans Memorial in St. Paul. "I just wanted them...

One year ago a specialist told Andrea Grove that a stress fracture in her back might prevent her from ever running again. She was inactive, about 12 pounds heavier than normal, and terrified that she'd...

The committee representing the interests of the University's faculty in the ongoing effort to change the tenure code has passed a resolution accusing Regent Jean Keffeler of effectively undermining the...

Minneapolis City Council members postponed a vote Friday on a zoning ordinance that could prevent the University from renovating its steam plant. The zoning amendment would prohibit coal-fired power plants...

Student organizations will see their relationships with the University on legal and financial matters more clearly defined if the Senate Committee on Student Affairs approves a proposal to revise certain...

Two leaders of the University's Catholic community agreed that a Nebraska bishop tried to draw the lines of the church too narrowly earlier this month when he excommunicated Catholics in his Lincoln,...

As cultural phenomena go, the show "Friends" is as big as it gets. TV's premiere 20-something sitcom has it all: attractive stars, a hit theme song, a suitably quirky sense of humor, a choice time slot...

With palms sweating and hearts racing, many Minnesota teens are feverishly studying their driver's training manuals in preparation for an upcoming exam. Hopes of climbing behind the wheel alone for the...