.The Minnesota Daily sat down with University President Bob Bruininks at Morrill Hall on Monday to discuss research, Regents, faculty retention, baseball and the emergence of spring. As you probably read...

It's not the miraculous memory-erasing device from the 1997 hit movie "Men in Black," but it has a similar goal. Propranolol, a generic drug used to fight hypertension and now being considered to reduce...

I didn't want to spend my spring break traveling the country with a bunch of overstimulated college students on the Honky Tonk Badonkadonk Tour. I wanted to spend it with overstimulated college students...

University students overwhelmingly believe the price of the on-campus stadium will continue to increase, according to a Minnesota Daily poll. And, the poll said, though large numbers of students expect...

Slowly rising through the University ranks over nearly 40 years, the generally low-key Bob Bruininks developed a reputation for masterfully implementing tough policy. When he became president in 2002,...

Seeking a therapeutic dose of recreation on a recent Sunday morning, Bob Bruininks drove his GMC Envoy to a horse stable about an hour west of the Twin Cities. Every free weekend, the 65-year-old father...

The beer abruptly stopped flowing at a Southeast Como bar Sunday night while fire crews doused a blaze in an upstairs apartment. Though no humans were injured - a dog died - the fire displaced several...

Congressmen, mayors, state legislators and the University president welcomed approximately 1,500 college students of diverse sexual orientations to campus this weekend with letters in a sold-out conference's...

When hockey standout David Metzen first arrived at the University, he registered for classes at Johnston Hall. That was 46 years ago. And according to Metzen, now a member of the University Board of Regents,...

An apparent electrical fire early Saturday in the Marcy-Holmes neighborhood left about 20 University students temporarily homeless. The house fire, on the 1300 block of 7th Street Southeast, destroyed...

Few people have heard of his homeland in the Horn of Africa, but Edao Dawano is willing to die for its freedom. The University biology sophomore effuses indescribable passion when talking about Oromia,...

Republican Gov. Tim Pawlenty and legislative leaders from both parties pledged Tuesday to limit University tuition increases when the Legislature reconvenes next month. At a wide-ranging news conference...

Take one part crops, a splash of wind, a hefty dose of entrepreneurial spirit and one esteemed public research university to create a recipe for Minnesota's energy future. Since the state boasts all these...

.John Binkowski, Independence What is your policy on immigration? One of my opponents tends to demonize immigrants as disease-ridden and crime-prone, and I just don't think that's the case. I think what's...

They're powerful, but they're real people. On Thursday morning a few members of the state Senate took an elaborate tour of campus to check out University construction requests and examine completed projects....

Over the next few years, the University's Rochester campus might see drastic changes. "The Rochester area is projected to grow 70 percent in the next 25 years and its economy is growing even faster," Gov....

The "U' wants you to care about what happens in St. Paul. As the University Marching Band prepped the crowd, more than 400 supporters gathered at the McNamara Alumni Center on Wednesday night to push the...

You might find her at Stub & Herbs. But if Sue Jeffers, owner of the near-campus bar, gets her way, she'll be moving to the governor's mansion. "Minnesota needs a new vision," Jeffers said after a...

It was never even finished. But 44 years after construction crews broke ground on the $1.3 million structure, the Science Classroom Building and its baffling stairwells might soon be demolished. As a part...

Gov. Tim Pawlenty announced his support Tuesday for three new University buildings, but turned down another multimillion-dollar project. At a news conference in St. Paul, the governor revealed his $811...

University officials aren't waiting until the state Legislature reconvenes to make their case to politicians. "We've been doing it since the (last) session ended " literally," said Todd Iverson, one of...

Washington Avenue Southeast businesses bustled with activity Monday. But in less than two weeks, many of the customers who frequent Stadium Village will return home for the holidays. From Dinkytown to...

Until recently, Jonathan Kim's hankering for home cooking was hard to cure. His parents live in Korea. When the computer science sophomore returned to school this fall, he noticed Yummy Yummy, a restaurant...

Hussein Samatar said he owes a lot to the Minneapolis Public Library system. Now he has a chance to give back. Since the mid-1990s, he and his family have clocked countless hours in Franklin Community...

When Campus Pizza opened 16 years ago, "Perkins and pizza" were the only late-night food options available to University-area residents, manager Jim Rosvold said. But since the 2003 Minnesota state law...

At most business schools, the buck stops at a single office door. But at the Carlson School of Management, two full-time co-deans split responsibilities. Michael Houston, a longtime Carlson School professor,...

Iowa State University marketing senior Keith Dietzenbach said he's saved more than $600 since fall 2003 reselling old textbooks on www.cheggpost.com. "It's like a little recycling process I have," said...

Ladu Jada Gubek is a Sudanese immigrant, poet, teacher, University alumnus and, as of this month, a newspaper publisher. He's also blind. But to Gubek, that's more of a physical barrier than a mental one,...

Jesse Ross had no time to waste. The second-year University of California-Los Angeles masters in business administration student kept a brisk pace Friday afternoon at the Carlson School of Management,...

Besides teaching ethics and strategic management at the Carlson School of Management, 55-year-old Alfie Marcus is a prolific author. His new book, "Big Winners and Big Losers: The 4 Secrets of Long-term...

Harvard. Yale. Princeton. Dartmouth. In New York, Wall Street firms recruit heavily from these prestigious East Coast schools, while students from the Carlson School of Management and other Midwest institutions...

As long as University first-year finance student Nick Beste can remember, he's been coming up with "cockeyed ideas." Whether trying to develop a cell phone-controlled car starter or a Global Positioning...

By a close margin Tuesday, University-area residents chose Green Party candidate Cam Gordon as their next Minneapolis City Council member. Gordon received 2,481 votes, according to preliminary results,...

By the time November rolls around, Minnesotans usually brace for winter, packing away flip-flops and T-shirts. But Sunday morning, first-year Asian languages and literatures student Becky Dorff strolled...

Nothing was going to keep first-year art history student Mary Johnson from participating in the largest college Halloween party in the country, she said. Despite requests from Madison, Wis., and University...

A sea of business attire traversing the color spectrum descended upon the McNamara Alumni Center's Great Room on Tuesday. The people wearing them came to hear Robert Greifeld, president and chief executive...

For avid music lovers Trey Paterson and Jon Shane, selling Bob Marley brand shoes and kicking it with the Marley family was a dream come true. Five years ago, using Paterson's father's connections, the...

Some professors write books. Others submit papers for review. But most, unlike professor Norman Bowie, have never created a new field of study. Inspired by philosopher John Rawls - an acquaintance from...

After eight years working in corporate public relations in Chicago, Kevin VanDeraa said he wanted to open a bakery. He just didn't know what to call it. Out of countless brainstormed suggestions, he chose...

Avi Kumar said he learned he was performing at the Indian Student Association's Diwali celebration about two hours before the event. As people filed into Coffman Union's Great Hall - eventually more than...

After 10 years in the Dinkydome, TCF Bank will close Oct. 28 and move to the West Bank. Following a month of making the 15th Avenue Southeast property "Wells Fargo-ready," that bank will open its first...

A piece of bluff high above the Mississippi River on the West Bank is littered with empty beer cases, graffiti-laced highway barricades and random chunks of masonry. But where some see a polluted mess,...

A steady stream of University students filed into a Carlson School of Management classroom Wednesday, eager for their twice-weekly dose of inspiration. "It's build-your-own-sandwich day," said supply chain...

This year, the Carlson School of Management admitted one student for every eight applicants. That will change by fall 2008 - if everything goes as planned and the Carlson School opens a new undergraduate...

Each day, Sean Young commutes from his home in Fridley - a 10-mile trip to campus. Because he works at Varsity Bike Shop in Dinkytown, it's only appropriate to choose pedaling over driving, said Young,...

A postcard from 1954 recalls the pre-Metro Transit era, when trolleys ambled through the Southeast Como neighborhood, home to future Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey. In the photo, next to the Como-Harriet...

In the early '90s, Osman Ahmed practiced medicine at a Kenyan refugee camp. At least he tried to. Without supplies, the experienced Somali doctor watched helplessly while his sick compatriots died from...

It's legal here - if you use the right words. Each day customers scour the inventory at Hideaway, a Dinkytown head shop, searching for their preferred tool to get high. But as far as the folks at the nine-month-old...

Before a packed Law School auditorium Tuesday, two constitutional law professors sparred over the controversial Solomon Amendment. The amendment, tacked onto a 1996 energy and water development appropriations...

Though they had to avoid puddles and occasional downpours Saturday night, the Spokes Pizza Collective employees peddled on. "There's no such thing as weather permitting," said Rachel Libon, a member of...