With the stroke of a pen on Tuesday, President Barack Obama signed into law a $787 billion economic stimulus package meant to help pull the country out of a deepening recession. A combination of increased...

Alan Greenspan, Henry Paulson, Bernie Madoff and, yes, George W. Bush all make TIME magazine's list of 25 people to blame for the economic mess. In the magazine's Feb. 23 issue, a group of experts lay...

The Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system (MnSCU) and more than 3,000 faculty members at the system's seven universities have reached a tentative agreement calling for no across-the-board salary...

MnDOT is closing portions of I-35W this weekend, so if you live in the south metro and you're taking your dirty laundry home to your mother tonight, plan accordingly. All lanes, north and south, of I-35W...

Minnesota might end up with a bona fide comedian in the U.S. Senate... but it sounds like we might have one there already. Sen. Amy Klobuchar was a speaker, and resident comedian, at the Washington Press...

Rep. Phyllis Kahn, the DFLer who represents the University's district, has introduced legislation that would seat Al Franken in the U.S. Senate now, pending the end of the recount trial. If passed, the...

Monday is "National Buy a Newspaper Day!" Almost 20,000 people have joined the Facebook event encouraging its participants to purchase a good old-fashioned newspaper on Monday. Its creator, Chris...

Higher education wasn't the centerpiece, but Gov. Tim Pawlenty touched on issues pertaining to the 'U' and the MnSCU system in his State of the State address at the Capitol on Thursday. Calling for a cap...

It might sound a bit boring, but redrawing Congressional and legislative districts is a vital task for state legislatures every 10 years. Maybe you've thought that you want to give it a shot? Well, here's...

Having a little bit of election fatigue? Need some fun to lighten up the mood in the current U.S. Senate Recount? Well, MPR has just the remedy. Play the "You be the judge"...

If Sen. Norm Coleman holds on against Al Franken, Minnesota Republicans will break even in Congressional representation, as Rep. Michele Bachmann has been reelected and Erik Paulsen has won the seat of...

Last week, when I saw the Al Franken bus outside Coffman, I didn't quite know whether Franken himself was on campus. But when I saw it this morning, I knew. Franken was joined by Mayors Chris Coleman of...

Al Franken made an impromptu trip to Coffman Union today, where he greeted students for about half an hour, and talked to me. "I think students are really motivated in this election," Franken said as we...

It's Sarah Palin! The GOP vice presidential nominee was on Saturday Night Live last night. Palin appeared in the show's opening, alongside SNL producer Lorne Michaels, actor Alec Baldwin, and of course...

Todd Palin, husand of Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin, was in Minnnesota on Thursday. "First Dude" Palin spent time in the Iron Range, stumping for Norm Coleman at an event in which Coleman...

Minnesota's 3rd Congressional District race is one of the most interesting and contested races in the country. Today, DFL candidate Ashwin Madia will be on campus, kicking off a series of forums at the...

John McCain and Barack Obama meet in Nashville tonight in the second presidential debate. Tom Brokaw will moderate, and questions will come from the audience. Tonight's debate may take on extra importance,...

The name Adeona once belonged only to the Roman goddess of safe returns. on the web To learn more and download the new program, go to http://adeona.cs.washington.edu/. Today, a new laptop recovery program...

In a vote Friday morning, the Minneapolis City Council granted a rezoning permit to Doran Development , opening the door for the company to pursue renovations of the Dinkydome and to build a housing development...

In a blog post Tuesday, former presidential candidate Ron Paul said he plans on being in the Target Center , not Williams Arena as originally planned, to introduce his Campaign for Liberty" in September. "After...

The Crown Hydro project, a proposed hydropower turbine located at St. Anthony Falls in the Mississippi River, has been stalling for nearly a decade, and a 5-4 vote against the project last December by...

Tuesday marked the opening of the University's Medical Devices Center , a research facility meant for designing and testing new medical devices. Director Art Erdman said the center is a part of the Institute...

The University of Minnesota Children's Hospital, Fairview, has been placed in the top 20 in two categories of national children's hospital rankings conducted by U.S. News and World Report. According to...

A group of protesting scientists hope to break into the global warming debate with a petition against the theory of human-driven global warming. The Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, a small independent...

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain released details about his health care plan Tuesday, and he received a little help from a University professor along the way. Finance professor Steve...

One could set a clock by it - each new semester, students line up in Coffman Union, or on Oak Street or in Dinkytown to buy new textbooks. Despite the best deals students claim to find, the groans, sighs...

The Minnesota House of Representatives passed a bill Thursday to give $4.9 million to the University to study a rare but deadly form of cancer, but Gov. Tim Pawlenty has already threatened a veto. The...

This week marks the sixth annual Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Health Awareness Week, hosted by the Rainbow Health Initiative, an organization seeking to improve the health of the GLBT community...

In its 80-plus years, Williams Arena is no stranger to competition. But this weekend, it played host to a different type of sport, and the arena's lights didn't reflect off the athletes' sweat, but instead...

Minnesota Student Association President Emma Olson said it wasn't the most exciting MSA forum of the year Tuesday, but it was one of the most important. MSA members tackled issues including the group's...

In the early 2000s, students were dropping out of school early to enter jobs in the technology field. Just a few years later, the Computing Research Association has found that the number of students declaring...

University Computer Services has entered a restructuring phase that looks to outsource services to non-University vendors. Renee Rivers, who works in the Office of Information Technology, said the University's...

By nature, best friends have many things in common - favorite movies, similar hobbies and common interests. But University researchers have recently found man's best friend may have something more substantial...

Male contraceptives could someday leave the condom aisle and enter the pharmacy. The University Pro-Choice Coalition held a forum Wednesday night discussing the future of male birth control pills. Caitlin...

For the second straight year, the University was named in a national report looking at incidents of digital information loss. The Feb. 11 report, called "Educational Security Incidents (ESI) Year in Review...

University researchers have a beef with some American diets. A study released Jan. 22 found certain diets can lead to an increased risk of metabolic syndrome, its author, Ph.D. student Pam Lutsey, said. "Metabolic...

While University students spent winter break catching up on sleep and social lives, some University professors and researchers were busy changing the face of the scientific world. Of the study results...

The Gophers football team didn't make it to a Bowl showdown this year - but Goldy Gopher did. The University's mascot has reached the finals in the Capital One Bowl National Mascot of the Year contest,...

As the snow fell Saturday morning, 22-month-old Krystie Karl-Steiger lay on an examination table at the Phillips-Wagensteen building where, unannounced to her, her parents were anxiously awaiting the results...

Condoms might be free through the University, but the cost of some other contraceptives it offers is increasing. Because of a federal law enacted in January, drug companies won't be able to sell prescription...

Nurses typically focus on their patients' health, but during the next legislative session they'll focus, in part, on their own. The Minnesota Nurses Association announced Nov. 14 plans to lobby the Legislature...

The University's new TXT-U service is only five days old, but has already joined the ranks of a growing number of text messaging uses. Besides sending normal text messages, new uses for cell phone texting...

Numbers from the Digital Media Center show WebVista, an online course management system, has an increasing number of users at the University. The nine-year-old system has 2,379 course pages and about 50,000...

While some people on campus use the night hours for homework, partying or - rarely - sleep, a few teams of University insomniacs recently used that time for filmmaking. On Oct. 13, these students found...

While the more than 130,000 people in the Facebook group "If Wikipedia Says It, It Must Be True" praise the online encyclopedia, University researchers have been trying to evaluate who might be behind...

When psychology senior Jane Berezovsky traveled to Kenya in July, it was obvious to her that malaria is a major problem in African countries. "I lived in a rural area there and they had a lot of issues...

It's that time of year - winds change, geese make their trips south and flu shot clinics begin shooting up in malls, grocery stores and on college campuses. Boynton Health Service is offering free, walk-in...

Students shivering in Saturday morning's mid-30-degree temperatures needed only to look up for something destined for even colder temperatures. University students participating in the Minnesota Space...

Professor Jim Luby's rap sheet of U.S. plant patents is a fruit cocktail of numbers and letters. The patent for his Honeycrisp apple lies among his three strawberry breed patents - MNUS 248, MNUS 210 and...

Computer manufacturing giant Apple Inc. released Leopard, the newest update of its popular operating system, Friday, reviving the debate between Microsoft and Apple users worldwide. Leopard, which follows...