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UMN research sheds light on gentrification concerns

by Wesley Hortenbach
Published February 28, 2018
Researchers conducted interviews with nearly 60 Twin Cities residents to better understand how they view neighborhood changes.
Dr. Timothy O'Brien swirls "mini brains," which are being researched as Parkinson's disease therapy, within a storage container on Thursday, Feb. 22 in the Stem Cell Institute at McGuire Translational Research Facility.

Mini-brains: the latest creation in a UMN lab

by Michelle Griffith
Published February 28, 2018
The organoids could be used to treat Parkinson's and Alzheimer's one day.

Campus groups make requests for student service fees

by Kayla Song
Published February 28, 2018
Student groups sent in applications and await their initial recommendations for 2018-2019 academic year operations funding.

UMN study looks at ties between gender and speech

by Wesley Hortenbach
Published February 28, 2018
The study found that boys with gender dysphoria may sound less male than boys without gender dysphoria to some listeners.

UMN biochemistry student dies at 20

by Olivia Johnson
Published February 27, 2018
Mitchell Hoenig was a junior in the College of Biological Sciences.
PSG candidates Sonya Ewert, Michael Sound and Alanna Pawlowski pose for portraits in Nils Hasselmo Hall on Feb. 19, 2018.

PSG candidates hold debate ahead of elections

by Maraya King
Published February 27, 2018
Candidates faced off Feb. 26 on West Bank about one week before the all-campus elections.
University graduate student Noel Gordon Jr. speaks at the "White Supremacy in the Age of Trump" Anti-Racist Teach In at the Humphrey Forum on Monday, Feb. 26.

Grad students host anti-racist teach-in during Shapiro event

by Eliana Schreiber
Published February 27, 2018
A group of students hosted ‘White Supremacy in the Age of Trump: An Anti-Racist Teach-In,’ Monday night in opposition to the Ben Shapiro talk in St. Paul.
Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro speaks in the Northstar Ballroom of the St. Paul Student Center on Monday, Feb. 26. The speech drew a crowd of dozens of protestors in opposition to Shapiro's presence on campus.

Ben Shapiro addresses venue controversy, free speech in campus visit

by Isabella Murray
Published February 27, 2018
Nearly 400 students attended Shapiro's speech on the University of Minnesota's St. Paul campus.
Protesters march in the streets around the St.Paul Student Center in opposition to conservative commentator Ben Shapiro's appearance on campus out on Monday, Feb. 26.

Protesters take to St. Paul campus to voice disapproval of Ben Shapiro

by Madeline Deninger, Isabella Murray, and Tiffany Bui
Published February 27, 2018
Roughly two dozen protesters gathered outside the St. Paul Student Center to protest conservative commentator Ben Shapiro's campus visit.
Illustration by Jane Borstad.

A digital, replicated voice for ALS patients

by Ella Johnson
Published February 26, 2018
Lou Gehrig's disease, a degenerative condition, often causes patients to lose vocal function.

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