Not even volunteer services are immune from the recent economic downturn. In 2008, the Peace Corps cut programs, causing the amount of national volunteers to drop. With 65 alumni volunteering for the Corps...

The announcement that the Gopher football team will take on perennial powerhouse University of Southern California on campus in 2010 has Gopher fans wondering when the menâÄôs basketball team will...

Sophomore Lolla Mohammed Nur has gotten the impression that the University of Minnesota is âÄúall about money.âÄù âÄúThat [perception] is not a good thing and it doesnâÄôt...

As immigration issues continue to frequent court rooms, political speeches and circles of public debate, about 70 first-year law students helped undocumented immigrants work their way through the legal...

Founded in 1909, the Itasca Biological Station and Laboratories have had an impact on thousands of University of Minnesota students and professors, but as the station celebrates its centennial, itâÄôs...

For the new Obama administration, whose claim to fame is change, one relationship - higher education and defense research - seems to be going in the same direction: closer together. An initiative created...

Students strapped for cash after graduation might find a solution from Minnesota âÄî unless the stateâÄôs budget problems get in the way first. Members of the Minnesota Public Interest...

For the first time in four years, the number of students taking the Graduate Record Examination has dropped. The Educational Testing Service , which administers the exam, expected 675,000 students to take...

Medical schools across the country are answering the Association of American Medical Colleges âÄô call for more doctors, according to a recent survey conducted by Kaplan Test Prep and Admission....

Mankato police put the kibosh on a back to school bash a few blocks from the Minnesota State University-Mankato campus last weekend and issued 127 underage consumption tickets. According to the Star Tribune,...