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Pema Lhewa keeps warm on the campus connector on Tuesday, Jan. 29 in St. Paul. All classes at the University of Minnesota starting after noon on Tuesday were cancelled due to extremely low temperatures.

Extreme temperatures lead to more UMN class cancellations, campus shutdown

by Niamh Coomey
Published January 29, 2019
Classes will now restart at noon on Thursday.
Melinda Hiller works in VR to create the drawings that are projected behind her.

Art department’s VR studio sees new uses at UMN

by Kait Ecker
Published January 29, 2019
Now that the VR studio is set up in the UMN art department, students and faculty find innovative uses for the new technology.
The Minnesota State Capitol on Saturday, Nov. 18.

Minnesota State biennial ask nearly triples that of University

by Isabella Murray
Published January 29, 2019
The Legislature has allocated more funding to the Minnesota State system in past years.
Graduate student Kat Sweeney works in her makeshift lab on Friday, Jan. 25 at Christensen Laboratory in St. Paul. The federal government shutdown has forced Sweeney to temporarily move her lab.

With end of shutdown, grad students breathe sigh of relief

by Jake Steinberg
Published January 28, 2019
Graduate students make uneasy return to research, with another potential shutdown looming.
Passersby walk next to Coffman Union on Monday, Oct. 29, 2018. 

Examining the past: UMN efforts to rename buildings among longest in nation

by Austen Macalus
Published January 28, 2019
The University has taken longer than other schools in handling its racist history.
Body cameras sit in a charging cradle.

UMN omits bodycams from budget request

by Mohamed Ibrahim
Published January 28, 2019
The University of Minnesota Police Department will not ask for funding for body cameras in its upcoming budget request.
President Nils Hasselmo speaks at Northrop auditorium during, "Six Presidents. Four Decades of Leadership. One University," on May 4, 2015.

Former colleagues remember Nils Hasselmo as caring leader of University

by Helen Sabrowsky
Published January 28, 2019
Nils Hasselmo, who died Wednesday at 87, was a Scandinavian languages professor before his tenure as UMN president from 1988 to 1997.
Illustrated by Morgan La Casse

UMN Medical School taking steps for student mental health

by Gwiwon Jason Nam
Published January 28, 2019
The Medical School is changing its curriculum and offering resources to mitigate student stress.
Illustrated by Abby Adamski

Early confusion surrounds all-campus elections

by Dylan Miettinen
Published January 28, 2019
Discrepancies in communication surrounding referendum rule changes by ACEC lead to confusion among student government groups.
John North, left, Issac North and mother Mary North view an installation from the exhibit Collecting Memory: Photographs and Installations by Jeff Millikan.

After shutdown, campus establishments offer free services to furloughed employees

by Erin Wilson
Published January 28, 2019
Afro Deli and the Bell Museum have provided free food or entry to furloughed federal government workers during the shutdown.

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