After numerous undergraduate literary journals struggled, came and went over the years, a group of English majors came together four years ago and created the Wayfarer, an annual publishing of undergraduate...

Every day between 75,000 and 80,000 people come to the University, according to Parking and Transportation Services. But for many of them, their first worry isn't class or meetings, it's finding a parking...

On a gloomy, rainy Thursday morning, counselors screened at least 37 University students to see if their dark moods constituted clinical depression. As part of National Depression Screening Day, University...

Although some people don't eat well, many do know the importance of good, nutritious meals. Yet for some, just learning how to eat healthy is an issue. Today the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program...

When Frank Brookes Hubachek Sr. bought a pine forest on the shores of Basswood Lake in 1937, he wanted to learn more about his new land. He went to Frank Kaufert, former dean of the University's College...

A Minneapolis-based agricultural company will give the University $10 million to create a new Microbial and Plant Genomics Institute on the St. Paul campus, University President Mark Yudof announced Tuesday. Cargill's...

Liver cancer patients in the Twin Cities now have another treatment option at the University. Physicians have begun using a Food and Drug Administration-approved device to kill cancer cells in larger liver...

Technology developed at the University and published in the Aug. 31 issue of the journal, "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences," has shown that repairing genes in animals is possible. This...

While planning a celebration of the nation's first women's center, University students searching for information about its opening found scant media coverage. Now the Minnesota Women's Center celebrates...

Leaving familiar territory for the unknowns of college can be intimidating. But by following some simple advice, the transition can be made easier. Mary Ann Ryan, director of Housing and Residential Life,...

Kids milled about a barn Wednesday, feeding calves milk from oversized baby bottles; others replaced old water with fresh water or dumped grain into the calves' feeders. As participants in a new University...

When Richard Barnes was a young man pitching potatoes in Germany, he never anticipated his blistered hands would one day hold an award for his work. Barnes was one of two people presented with the first...

Eleven songbirds flew to their freedom at noon Saturday from the wetlands behind the Minnetonka All Seasons Wild Bird Store. This event marked the first time the University's Wildlife Rehabilitation Center...

Extreme temperature changes, high rainfalls and excessive heat are not only a result of humans' impact on the environment, but can also occur in a natural way and in a short time. A University study found...

The lick of summer's heat encased in an annual performing arts festival offered the University community a taste of the Twin Cities' creative offerings. Coffman Union presented two previews of "Plays with...

Weight and blood pressure are increasing among children between the ages of 10 and 14 according to a recent University study. The report, completed by the University's School of Public Health, took the...

Scientists and government officials will go a half mile below the earth's surface today to break ground on a lab that could solve the mysteries surrounding subatomic particles called neutrinos. The under-ground...

Spring cleaning means more than just cleaning out the cabinets -- it also means cleaning out the cupboards. And this weekend, getting rid of hidden cans of food will be as easy as putting them next to...

With the possibility of the United States sending ground troops to Kosovo in support of NATO, the crisis in the former Yugoslavia is hitting closer to home. And although thousands of miles away from the...

Standing in a room next to the Silent Witnesses, an exhibit she helped create, Patricia Weaver Francisco's voice choked as she read aloud from her new book on Friday in Coffman Union. "Telling: A Memoir...

For Anya Benda, the best part of Thursday's Take Our Daughters to Work Day wasn't a lesson about women's career aspirations. It was the silly putty the Society of Women Engineers made. "I liked putting...