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Study: Primates in captivity have lost native gut bacteria

by Melissa Steinken
Published September 19, 2016
University of Minnesota researchers studied monkeys from St. Paul, Singapore and Vietnam to understand captivity's influence on gut bacteria.

Slashed budgets push University Of Wisconsin faculty to Minnesota

by Kevin Beckman
Published September 19, 2016
In Wisconsin, some professors have left the system due to shrinking state funding and tenure policy changes.
Tanya Bailey from the Animal-Assisted Interaction Programs holds Woodstock, a therapy chicken, Monday, Dec. 9, 2012 at the Learning and Environmental Sciences building in St. Paul. Woodstock, one of the founding members of PAWS, passed away earlier this month.

Woodstock the therapy chicken dies at 10

by Keaton Schmitt
Published September 19, 2016
A founding member of Pet Away Worry and Stress at the University, the chicken died of old age earlier this month.

U will not use taxpayer, tuition money to cover faculty unionization legal fees

by Jessie Bekker
Published September 16, 2016
The University said it will cover legal fees using other sources that have yet to be identified.
A pedestrian walks past empty retail space underneath WaHu Student Apartments in Stadium Village on Wednesday Sept. 14, 2016.

Chain restaurants in Stadium Village on the rise

by Tiffany Lukk
Published September 15, 2016
Three new businesses have appeared in Stadium Village over the summer

MPCA to focus on environmental justice

by Ryan Faircloth
Published September 15, 2016
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency announced members of its new environmental justice advisory group Sep. 6 .
DWI arrest rates decline in state and at the University of Minnesota

DWI arrest rates decline in state and at the University of Minnesota

by Kristina Busch
Published September 15, 2016
Officials suspect that a increase in the number of students living on campus contributed to the shift.
University Director of Marching and Athletic Bands Betsy McCann directs a football pre-game performance at TCF Bank Stadium on Sept. 1, 2016. McCann is the first female director of a marching band the University has had, as well as in the Big 10.

For University of Minnesota Marching Band Director, a historic ‘surprise’

by Raju Chaduvula
Published September 15, 2016
Betsy McCann is the first female marching band director in Big Ten history.
Minnesota Student Association President Abeer Syedah listens during the Association's forum in Mondale Hall on Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2016. Syedah, who previously served as Vice President, was elected as President earlier this year.

Working to spotlight issues of social justice, Abeer ‘pushes boundaries’

by Rilyn Eischens
Published September 15, 2016
MSA president Abeer Syedah has focused her time on social justice issues such as inequality and underrepresented groups.

U uses tuition, state funds to pay legal fees associated with faculty union push

by Kacey Holmen and Jackie Renzetti
Published September 15, 2016
The U has paid an outside law firm $500K as it battles faculty unionization supporters in court.

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