JERUSALEM (AP) -- Haike Grossman, a leader of the Jewish resistance against the Nazis in occupied Poland who became an Israeli parliament member, died Sunday after being in a coma for three years. She...

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...

Last November, the Gophers soccer team started an upward swing in the University women's athletics department by winning the Big Ten title. The department raised more eyebrows in December when it swooped...

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,...

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,...

The Gophers' Jason Schlueter, Paul Michalek and Vesa Rantanen learned this weekend that they qualified for the NCAA men's track and field outdoor championships. The NCAA notified the qualifying athletes...

Dave Winfield, who led the Gophers baseball team to third place at the 1973 NCAA championships, was named to the All-Time College World Series team by the Omaha (Neb.) World Herald. Winfield played pitcher...

Jim Gardner's opinions piece about how University professors -- specifically those in the College of Liberal Arts and more narrowly those in the Department of English -- are "not pulling their weight"...

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...

Last month the University received $7 million from the state for the construction of an indoor tennis/ice rink facility. The funding assured that the Gophers tennis and women's ice hockey teams would...