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University of Minnesota mentor Zainab Mohamed works on algebra homework with a group of high school students on April 5, 2017 at the University's Urban Research and Outreach Engagement Center in Minneapolis.

Without funds, UMN program that helps underserved kids could suffer

by Rilyn Eischens
Published April 13, 2017
The program’s $527,892 grant will run out this summer.
Security monitor Will Burnton receives a request for an escort on his two-way radio while walking across the Washington Avenue bridge during his shift on April 17, 2014.

For UMN student security monitors, bridge crises bring anxiety

by Bella Dally-Steele
Published April 13, 2017
Security monitors are often tasked with suicide prevention on the Washington Avenue Bridge.
Lab technician Mark Mulivahill works in the Center for Drug Design with assistant professor  Christine Salomon in a lab in theVFW Cancer Research Building.

UMN research reprograms immune system to fight cancer

by Olivia Johnson
Published April 13, 2017
Perry Hackett discovered the Sleeping Beauty Transposon system, which helps treat cancer.
Eric practices pole dancing in his apartment on Sunday, April 9, 2017. Eric pole dances for fun and athletic purposes, occasionally freelancing at the Gay 90's, while pursuing his college education at the University of Minnesota.

After UMN report, changes could come to Minneapolis strip clubs

by Bella Dally-Steele
Published April 13, 2017
Minneapolis and St. Paul strip club regulations stand in stark contrast.
The new University of Minnesota Police Department squad car.

Statewide drug seizures rise, campus numbers remain consistent

by Olivia Johnson
Published April 12, 2017
Though Minnesota reported high numbers of drug seizures, the University’s drugs seizures stayed flat.
The Aurora Center director Katie Eichele leads a group exercise at the Aurora Center's all-volunteer training at Elliott Hall on Feb. 4, 2014. The goal of the exercise was to keep balloons, representing sexual assault victims, off the ground and emphasizes how agencies have different policies regarding sexual assault victims and how easy it is for the victims to fall through the cracks with miscommunication between agencies.

Students fundraise for Aurora Center; push for UMN to fund it

by Natalie Rademacher
Published April 12, 2017
Student groups come together to help raise funds.
Immigration History Research Center Program Coordinator Saengmany Ratsabout talks during the Community Conversation on Immigration in Coffman Memorial Union on Tuesday, April 11, 2017.

UMN students, faculty say Immigration Response Team is positive move

by David Clarey
Published April 12, 2017
The group’s formation comes four months after a sanctuary campus petition circulated campus with more than 1,500 signatures
Psychology professor Robert Krueger talks with the Minnesota Daily in his office in Elliot Hall on Monday, April 10, 2017. Krueger and his colleagues recently published a new psychiatric classification system called the Hierarchal Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTop).

UMN professor helps develop new method for mental health diagnoses

by Natalie Rademacher
Published April 12, 2017
New method aims to be more person-centered.

UMN group brings awareness to issue of sex trafficking

by Cindy Simba
Published April 11, 2017
The campus group has had a series of events to spread awareness of sex trafficking and modern day slavery
University researcher Matthew Hamilton crushes fecal matter into a powder that will go in capsules to treat Clostridium difficile infection on Tuesday, April 4, 2017 in St. Paul. Fecal Microbiota Transplantation (FMT) introduces new good bacteria from a fecal donation into the colon, pushing out bad bacteria like CDI and avoiding antibiotic use that damages the gut microbiome.

UMN scientists are using fecal matter (yes, really) to treat diseases

by Neha Panigrahy
Published April 11, 2017
Researchers make progress in treating infectious disease, obesity, and autism symptoms with fecal transplants.

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