Editor's note: In light of the Board of Regents' approval of establishing a branch campus in Rochester, the Daily takes a look at the 1992 closing of its Waseca campus, located just 45 minutes away from...

In an effort to keep up with the growing demand for alternative healing options, the University will begin offering a graduate-level minor in complementary medicine this fall. The University will expand...

Editor's note: In light of the Board of Regents' approval of establishing a branch campus in Rochester, the Daily takes a look at the 1992 closing of its Waseca campus, located just 45 minutes from Rochester....

A lack of funding could put a kink in the University's plans to establish a branch campus in Rochester. At the close of the legislative session May 17, the University made off with only half of the $5.3...

Although Gov. Ventura sliced $160 million from 40 legislative provisions with his line-item veto power, the University escaped relatively unscathed with only $450,000 in cuts. The governor cut $250,000...

A bill passed by a congressional committee extending tax breaks to aid students, parents and employers paying for education costs will probably not earn the president's signature. The measure, passed by...

The man who is accused of assaulting a state senator with a pie in March went on trial Monday in Ramsey County Court. Bob Greenberg, 31, faces gross misdemeanor charges of disrupting the state Legislature...

House and Senate leaders in the state Legislature reached an agreement late Monday night outlining a plan which would provide $377 million over the next three years in funding for medical education, including...

Gov. Jesse Ventura signed a bill into law Thursday making it illegal to possess the so-called "date rape" drug GHB without a prescription. Gamma-hydroxybutyrate, or GHB, is known as a date-rape drug because...

Gov. Jesse Ventura's pet bulldog might be responsible for breaking the Legislature's impasse in budget negotiations and potentially saving an endowment for the University's Academic Health Center. In a...

Varsity female athletes could be rowing their boats down the Mississippi River as soon as the 2000-01 academic year under part of University President Mark Yudof's plan to ensure gender equity between...

As Minnesotans gathered at the state Capitol to celebrate Thursday's National Day of Prayer, some political groups criticized the governor's refusal to formally recognize the event. The sun broke through...

Professors are more likely than students to benefit from two tax-cut bills before the state Legislature. A joint committee of senators and representatives began hashing out the differences between the...

As state legislators begin negotiating the higher education budget bill in conference committee, some University employees question the procedure the school must go through to obtain cost-of-living pay...

Tense hours of waiting were punctuated by alternating bursts of laughter and hushed silence as Brett Rowlett, Irene Kao and their campaign crew watched "The Simpsons" in Rowlett's living room. "I feel...

American politicians need to give foreign conflicts a tough review before U.S. forces get involved, said former Minnesota Sen. Eugene McCarthy on Monday. In his lecture, titled "Threats to American Democracy,"...

With only one more committee to pass through before final approval, the University's budget request is progressively losing steam. On Friday, the full Senate voted 62-2 in favor of its $2.61 billion higher...

The author of a bill to protect gays from discrimination in Minnesota -- and the first openly gay legislator in the nation -- announced Friday that he will not seek re-election next year. Sen. Allan Spear,...

A proposal to establish a branch campus of the University in Rochester narrowly escaped the cutting room floor Friday as legislators' partisan interests intervened. House Minority Leader Rep. Thomas Pugh,...

After efforts to nix funding for a branch campus in Rochester and plans to create a $35 million endowment for the University's Academic Health Center were shot down, the House of Representatives passed...

One of Minnesota's top legislators called for University President Mark Yudof to appoint a community-led task force to examine academic standards in the intercollegiate athletics program on Tuesday. Assistant...

Lucy Smith hid in coal cellars and attics in the ghettos of Poland as she tried to escape the wrath of the Nazis' roundup and the extermination of Europe's Jews. She was nine years old. But she hid much...

Earning a degree from the University could get a little simpler with the changeover to semesters. Members of the Board of Regents' Faculty, Staff & Student Affairs committee discussed changes to the...

A man who threw a pie in Senator Carol Flynn's face last week to protest the rerouting of Highway 55 could face up to a year in jail. Bob Greenberg, 32, of Minneapolis, was charged with disrupting the...

Surcharges at automatic teller machines are rising across the state, even as merging banks post record profits, and students are among consumers hit the hardest. That was the conclusion of a study released...

University professor Paul Hasbargen was well-known to farmers throughout Minnesota for his seminars on managing farms and raising livestock. Hasbargen, who taught applied economics and helped farmers with...

George Tani, ophthalmologist and University clinical professor who spent time in a Japanese-American detention camp during World War II, died at his home March 22. He was 83. Although he retired from teaching...

University professor Clark Starr died just four days after he was presented with a lifetime achievement award for his contributions to speech, language and hearing. Starr, who was the first chairman of...

Milton Orkin, a Minneapolis dermatologist and clinical professor at the University, died Friday from a brain tumor. He was 69. A world-renowned authority on skin disorders such as scabies, Orkin was also...

The next time students pop a CD into their Discman or go through the check-out line at the supermarket, they can thank electrical engineering professor Marshall Nathan. Nathan helped develop the semiconductor...

Since history professor Hy Berman began teaching at the University in 1961, he has occasionally lectured to college students whose parents also took his classes. But Berman will give serious thought to...

A report released this week by the Chronicle of Higher Education ranks Minnesota sixth in compensation for full professors at state colleges and universities. But the ranking does not tell the whole story....

The University Senate is spearheading a nationwide effort to repeal a law requiring researchers who get federal grant money to supply research data to anyone who wants it. Members of the University Senate...

The University on Wednesday moved one step closer toward creating a branch campus in Rochester, Minn. The Minnesota State Colleges and Universities' Board of Trustees voted to approve a statement to establish...

Goldy Gopher was born a chipmunk. That's because when George Grooms originally drafted the design in the 1940s that would become the University's mascot, he lived in Iowa, where there were no gophers. But...

After a frustrating year for teachers and students, a state legislative committee agreed to scrap the state's $2 million graduation standard policy Tuesday. The House Education Committee voted 25 to 9...

A local dairy company has recalled about 50 milk products over the weekend because of possible contamination with the listeria bacterium. The recalled products include several items from Land O' Lakes,...

Burtrum C. Schiele, psychiatry professor emeritus, was known for using more than just psychoanalysis to help his patients. In a time when mental illness was just beginning to be recognized as a legitimate...

When students across the country go to class at the beginning of the year, chances are the courses won't be taught by women. Although more female instructors are teaching classes than 20 years ago, the...

Pregnant women, victims of the HIV virus and people who like hot dogs should all think twice before popping that wiener in the microwave. Twelve people across the nation have died and 79 people have reported...

Although electrical engineering professor Guillermo Sapiro hopes his research in imaging might be used some day to diagnose breast cancer, he has no idea how the U.S. Navy is applying it because that information...

As teachers in the baby boomer generation approach retirement age, Minnesota could face a shortage of elementary and secondary instructors. About 20,000 of the state's approximately 56,000 teachers will...

Seventy-five University faculty members were recognized for outstanding teaching Tuesday afternoon at the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. These professors, representing all four University campuses,...

University history professor Allan Spear has not written a book in more than 20 years. While that might land some professors in front of the tenure review committee, Spear has been applying his academic...

Concerned professors and students can breathe a sigh of relief: The campus grade point averages for each of the University's four campuses has changed little since the University adopted its plus-minus...

For the first time in four years, the United States Postal Service is raising its rates for first-class mail. The new rate, effective Sunday, raised the price of a first-class stamp from 32 to 33 cents...

Making a local phone call in the Twin Cities will officially get a little tougher on Sunday. This weekend, the grace period for calls to phone numbers between the 612 area code and the new 651 area code...

In its second year of accepting freshman applicants, the College of Biological Sciences nearly doubled its freshman class this year. In 1997, the college admitted its first freshman class of 117 students....

When University officials approached the Legislature three years ago for money to renovate Haecker Hall, the building had seen better days. Animal science professor Marshall Stern said when University...

Charges brought against a University student for allegedly attempting to set a small fire on the kitchen floor at his parents' house Nov. 29 were dropped Friday in Scott County District Court. Ben Dover,...