At this year’s final Board of Regents meetings on Thursday and Friday — the first since October — the regents will discuss and act on a new administrative sexual assault policy, collective bargaining...
The Minnesota Daily met with University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler for this year’s final monthly interview on Friday, Dec. 1.
Kaler shared his thoughts on the University’s biggest challenges...
The proportion of first-generation undergraduate students at the University of Minnesota has decreased by more than 5 percent since 2010, according to enrollment data.
First-generation students and a University...
University of Minnesota Student Legal Service has seen a 15 percent increase in cases compared to last fall.
SLS has been especially busy this year with landlord, rental and immigration cases, according...
The Minnesota Daily sat down with University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler on Thursday for this month's interview about campus news.
Kaler discussed first-generation college students, a college...
In response to the declining Minnesota moose population, University researchers are studying possible factors contributing to the increase in mortality.
In 2016, about 4,000 moose lived in Minnesota —...
Around 50 people made up the group waiting on election results at Gandhi Mahal Restaurant on East Lake Street Tuesday, where incumbent Mayor Betsy Hodges acknowledged her initial prospects weren't promising.
Hodges...
University of Minnesota student and faculty voters trickled into campus area polling places for the Minneapolis municipal elections Tuesday.
Polls opened at 7 a.m. for the 2017 municipal elections,...
Hundreds of University of Minnesota workers represented by the union Teamsters Local 320 voted Thursday to approve a possible strike over working conditions.
The union represents workers in building and...
The Minneapolis Police Department responded to a report of an attempted robbery Monday night.
The incident occurred at 9:15 p.m. near the intersection of University and 13th Avenue, according to a timely...
Less than half of college students are aware that the First Amendment protects hate speech, and about a third of those believe hate speech shouldn't be protected, according to a new survey of students’...
A Twin Cities area sexual assault advocate and a U.S. senator from Minnesota are working together on a bill to improve interactions between victims of sexual assault and the police.
The bill, the product...
Jakub Tolar will be the next dean of the University Medical School, University President Eric Kaler announced Friday.
Tolar, whose appointment is pending Board of Regents approval, will start in his new...
Boynton Health added the Transgender Health clinic as part of an effort to improve services for transgender members of the University of Minnesota community this summer.
The effort started with a Boynton...
The Minnesota Daily met with University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler on Tuesday for the semester's second monthly interview about campus news.
Kaler discussed the search for a new medical school dean,...
The University of Minnesota's Board of Regents adopted a new sexual misconduct policy and approved changes to another at its meeting Friday.
The board’s new Sexual Harassment, Sexual Assault, Stalking...
In response to a rash of vandalism targeting University of Minnesota student group murals this weekend, three affected political groups painted “censored” over nine panels on the Washington Avenue...
Politics again took center stage at the University of Minnesota’s Paint the Bridge event this year.
Multiple political student groups’ panels were vandalized in the days following the Washington Avenue...
Since Friday afternoon, additional vandalism has occurred on the Washington Avenue Bridge, with more political student groups targeted.
The original murals for both College Republicans and Turning Point...
Update: Vandalism of conservative groups' panels on Washington Avenue Bridge continues
Two University of Minnesota students fought over the College Republicans’ panel on the Washington Avenue Bridge...
As part of the University of Minnesota’s long-term plan to improve campus design, the Board of Regents recently authorized the purchase of a nearly half-acre parcel of land near TCF Bank Stadium.
Officials...
At least 30 students and alumni at the University of Minnesota were on track to become U.S. citizens through a federal program that put them through four to six years in the military.
Their progress was...
Like most students leaving a doctoral program, Joe Nelson is ready to enter the job market next year. Nelson hopes to find a position teaching at a university.
But a study from the American Academy of...
After changes in leadership in the last year, the University of Minnesota’s graduate school is refocusing its goals on diversity.
Appointed in April, Yoji Shimizu is starting his first school year as...
Thanks to GopherTrip, University of Minnesota senior Krista Hamann no longer wastes time in the morning waiting for a bus that’s running behind schedule or already full.
The app, launched in July, shows...
A square doughnut drizzled with chocolate, covered with almonds and sprinkled with hazelnuts was sophomore Megan Doran’s favorite Sssdude-nutz choice.
Now, Doran will have to track down the former Dinkytown...
On March 19, 2012, Brian Grundtner fell 50 feet during an airborne training jump, sustaining multiple broken bones and a traumatic brain injury.
Four years later, the former special operations staff sergeant...
