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SAEPi President Micaela Yarosh and Vice President Tracey Warsett sit for a portrait on Wednesday, Dec. 13 at Hillel on University Avenue. Yarosh and Warsett are starting a chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon Pi, a Jewish sorority.

New Jewish sorority joining Greek life spring semester

by Kayla Song
Published December 14, 2017
Sigma Alpha Epsilon Pi will officially join University Greek Life after winter break, replacing Kappa Lambda Epsilon, a non-Greek Jewish student group.
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False rumors of active shooter on campus have no basis, University officials say

by Nick Wicker
Published December 14, 2017
The rumors circulated around the University late Wednesday evening.
Lt. Gov. Tina Smith discusses a new initiative for young women of Minnesota on Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2016 at the Veterans Service Building in St. Paul.

Tina Smith to fill Al Franken’s senate seat

by Kelly Busche
Published December 13, 2017
Smith announced she will also run in November’s special election.

UMN mentor program will use tech to boost grad rates

by Natalie Rademacher
Published December 13, 2017
The 27-year-old Check and Connect program will use an app and an online module to train and provide resources to program participants.
Student Body President Trish Palermo talks about the new school year with the Minnesota Daily on Friday, Sept. 22.

MSA hopes to build on busy semester

by Max Chao
Published December 13, 2017
Decisions on sexual assault, safety and legislation will be presented in the spring.
Yao Zhang, a University grad student, demonstrates tweezers that can trap biomolecules on Tuesday, Dec. 12. Zhang, a student in Professor Steven Koester's laboratory, created these graphene-edged tweezers.

UMN researchers create world’s first graphene tweezers

by Helen Sabrowsky
Published December 13, 2017
The tweezers are capable of grabbing individual molecules.
President and CEO of the Prospect Park Association Vince Netz informs the audience of the situation regarding Prime Place Apartments at the St. Frances Cabrini Catholic Church on Monday, Dec. 11. 

Prime Place concerns mount at community meeting

by Cleo Krejci
Published December 12, 2017
Prime Place residents, neighbors and lawmakers discussed issues with the apartment complex at a meeting in Prospect Park on Monday night.

UMN-Morris students unhappy with administrative response to racist incidents

by Eliana Schreiber
Published December 12, 2017
A University of Minnesota Senate meeting on Monday discussed racist and hateful incidents this fall at the University of Minnesota-Morris.
The College of Biological Sciences Conservatory as seen on Monday, Sept. 10 in St. Paul. Construction for a new conservatory begins in October.

Global vegetation map will aid climate change research

by Katrina Pross
Published December 12, 2017
The map is based on data from 45,000 plants belonging to more than 3,600 species.
Campus connectors travel between Minneapolis and St. Paul campuses via the University's Transitway on Sunday, Dec. 10. The University is in talks with the Prospect Park Association to potentially relocate the Transitway to allow for further development of the neighborhood. 

University of Minnesota, Prospect Park look to move transitway

by Kelly Busche
Published December 11, 2017
Relocating the transitway would allow room for more development in the Prospect Park neighborhood.

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