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Gov. Mark Dayton addresses the state's budget for the next biennium and how he plans to use the $1.9 billion surplus at the Capitol on Friday.

Proposed student success center hinges on state funding

by Max Chao
Published January 27, 2017
The center would base most of its practices on the Center for Academic Planning and Exploration pilot program.

UMN startup receives $7 million to create drug for cancer treatment

by Neha Panigrahy
Published January 27, 2017
ApoGen Biotechnologies hopes to develop the drug for cancer therapy, eventually making it more curable.

Football players accused of sexual assault to get hearings this week

by Christopher Aadland
Published January 26, 2017
The Thursday and Friday closed-door hearings will determine if the 10 Gophers football players will have their expulsion and suspension recommendations upheld.
Students resume their day outside Anderson Hall on West Bank Monday late afternoon

Study says affluent grad students remain wealthy post-grad

by David Clarey
Published January 26, 2017
The report reinforces concerns over income, racial disparities in graduate-level education.

UMN scientists’ drug could prevent blood loss in traumatic injuries

by Neha Panigrahy
Published January 26, 2017
Researchers want to commercialize the drug, BHB/M, for use by first-responders.
Nuredin Dahir works on lighting LED lights at the Ka Joog mentorship program in the Riverside Mall on Nov. 5, 2016. Ka Joog, a non-profit aimed at helping Somali youth, started the mentorship program in March and collaborates with University mentors to teach kids about STEM fields.

Cedar-Riverside groups receive federal funding to combat extremism

by Raju Chaduvula
Published January 26, 2017
The Building Community Resilience program awarded money to Heartland Democracy and Ka Joog.
University of Minnesota Athletics Director Mark Coyle discusses recent events such as the football team's boycott and new football coach on Jan. 23, 2017 at TCF Bank Stadium.

AD Mark Coyle discusses fallout from football sex assault scandal

by Mike Hendrickson
Published January 26, 2017
In his fourth Q&A with the Daily, Mark Coyle talked about recent controversy surrounding the football team and the firing of Tracy Claeys.
Brian Burnett, Julie Tonneson and University President Eric Kaler present to the House of Representitives' higher education committee about the University's impact on Minnesota at the State Office Building on Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2017.

Some lawmakers say UMN budget request reflects wants, not needs

by Ryan Faircloth
Published January 26, 2017
At a Tuesday House higher education committee meeting some legislators questioned the school’s spending priorities.
Employee Will Harris carries a pot of coffee while Dean Schieve reads the paper and wife Mary scrolls through her phone in Al's Breakfast on Monday, Jan. 25, 2017. Dean said he's been coming to Al's since he was a student in 1987. "I like the ambience and the people," he said. "It's a pretty cool place to come and read the paper."

At Al’s Breakfast: New owners, same ol’ breakfast traditions

by Andrew Heiser
Published January 26, 2017
A former University of Minnesota student, Alison Kirwin, and Doug Grina are now co-owners of the six-decade-old Dinkytown mainstay.
A woman bikes past the witch's tower on southeast Orlin avenue  Tuesday Afternoon. Although about half of the neighborhood is made up of students, currently no student is part of the Prospect Park Association.

For city officials, $4 million project in Prospect Park is worth cost

by Mike Hendrickson
Published January 25, 2017
The public works effort could transform a span in the neighborhood from its state of disrepair.

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