Like many college students, Luka Krmpotich wakes up early so he can brew a pot of coffee before heading out to class.
But unlike many of the 50,000 other students on campus, the psychology major is borderline...
The Waseca Correctional Facility âÄì a low-security federal prison âÄì has attracted several notable individuals since it was opened in 1996 as an all-menâÄôs prison.
Former president...
With a weekend box office total of $23.1 million, the new Steven Soderbergh film Contagion, led all movies at the box office this weekend after opening nationwide on Friday.
The film, with a star-studded...
A British television news station recently featured the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood, naming Minneapolis as a breeding ground for home-grown terrorists within the U.S.
The largest domestic terrorism investigation...
The U.S. Department of Justice filed a compliant Wednesday morning in a federal court in Washington D.C. asking for a court order to prevent a blockbuster merger between AT&T and T-Mobile, according...
President Barack Obama's visit to Minneapolis Tuesday will be to address the members of the American Legion at their national convention.
This is the second visit to the state in less than two weeks. Obama...
Just the other day, a close friend from high school sent me an e-mail from Missouri. The message was from a seemingly distressed stay-at-home mom whom my friend had interviewed for a local magazine several...
As a Chinese-born, naturalized American citizen who grew up in Ames, Iowa, Chinese traditions were as elusive to me as getting a full-ride scholarship to play football. I was the son of a Chinese international...
Standing taller than a person, white candy-cane shaped metal pipes form an intricate centerpiece in the heart of a series of apartment complexes on the west bank of the Mississippi called Riverside Plaza.
The...
Whenever I meet alumni of the University of Minnesota and we compare and contrast our experiences here, the air of our conversation always tilts toward the drastic changes ahead.
I fill them in on the...
ItâÄôs a running joke here at the Minnesota Daily that the cumulative grade point average of the newsroom is lower than that of the football team. I wouldnâÄôt be shocked if this were true....
If BattleBots is World Wrestling Entertainment in mechanical form, the University of MinnesotaâÄôs GO FIRST robotics team is robo-football, head robot designer and University student Danny Blau...
Eddie Morra didn’t immediately recognize the man in the chic suit.
With the audacity of a rich man helping the poor, the man in the suit, who Morra soon recognizes as his ex-brother-in-law, forces a...
The fate of the University of Minnesota Science Park âÄî a 32-acre site for research labs and offices âÄî remains in limbo as organizers look to the University to take the lead as they...
Where else can you find the Miracle Ab Roller for only $6 online?
Dealnews.com is one of many websites that scan the Internet daily for the best bargins of the day.
Today's hottest deal: national roundtrip...
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers approved the .xxx domain for adult websites, Friday.
The top-level domain, the technical term for .com and .xxx portion of a URL, will be distributed...
The Soudan Underground Laboratory, operated by the University of Minnesota, is currently being threatened by a fire in a mine shaft above the actual lab.
The fire, determined by the Department of Natural...
Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos admits laughing at the idea of purchasing an Xbox Kinect for his $4 million research experiment.
The University of Minnesota computer science professor has saved more than $100,000...
There will be no St. Cloud State University Homecoming next fall, school officials said this week.
Citing a lack of school spirit and involvement from the universityâÄôs alumni base, the school...
After residents dug out of a snow storm that left more than a foot of snow across the metro, residents could again be digging out of another storm system with the potential of up to another six inches...
ItâÄôs hard to ignore the white cloud of steam that streaks across the sky driving north on Highway 94 from the Twin Cities.
Even on a clear day, the cloud hovers over the city of Monticello, a...
A closely guarded secret, Google's mathematical formula that orders websites according to their content quality, has changed, according to a Google blog post Thursday.
This is in response to recent criticism...
While no goats we know of were harmed in this alleged operation, Lt. Col. Michael Holmes, the leader of the U.S. Army's psy-op "information operations" unit, told Rolling Stone that Lt. Gen. William Caldwell,...
A man arrested in Stadium View Apartments for trespassing Sunday afternoon became violent in a squad car and threatened Minneapolis police officers.
The 20-year-old, identified as Anthony Fockler of Sioux...
No detectives who worked on the 1973 homicide of a 22-year-old man are still with the Minnetonka Police Department. The case remains the only unsolved homicide in Minnetonka history.
But with a fresh perspective...
The Metropolitan Sports Facilities Commission approved an $18.3 million roof replacement for the Metrodome on Thursday.
The roof will be completed by the beginning of August âÄî only weeks before...
Activision Blizzard announced that they will be discontinuing the “Guitar Hero” series of video games.
The company said they will be focusing more of their attention on battle games such as “Call...
The Metropolitan Sports Facilities Commission will hear an evaluation from engineers about the condition of the Metrodome's collapsed roof on Thursday.
According to the Star Tribune, the engineers...
Sean Fehrman doesnâÄôt have a peg leg, and is he isnâÄôt sporting an eye patch. And unlike any pirate, he has the exact coordinates to his booty âÄî no treasure map needed.
Equipped...
In an average week, more than five tons of waste from across the state is trucked into an unassuming, one-floor brick building on the edge of the University of MinnesotaâÄôs Minneapolis campus.
The...
When she started analyzing video games three years ago, Kyong Shim wasnâÄôt taken very seriously.
People questioned the idea of learning from the games. Now the U.S. Army is on board and is one...
A physicist from the University of Southern Queensland believes the Earth will experience multiple days of constant daylight due to a dying star — even as soon as 2012.
Is this a sign of the apocalypse?
No,...
Ears pop while descending a 110-year-old mine in an elevator the size of a small closet.
The pitch-dark ride to the âÄú27th floorâÄù (actually 689 feet below sea level) of the Soudan Mine...
In a one-room office above Gold Country in Stadium Village, about 30 University of Minnesota undergraduate students joke amid rows of computers and a pyramid of energy drinks âÄî they have everything...
Baseball, brats and booze. For some, itâÄôs tough to have one without the others, but new University of Minnesota research points to the comboâÄôs potential dangers.
Eight percent of Americans...
Social networking dinosaur, Myspace, announced Tuesday that they will be laying off 500 employees – close to half the company’s workforce.
“Today’s tough but necessary changes were taken in order...
Only slightly bigger than a half-dollar, the Zomm fits conveniently on my keychain, which makes me wish my cell phone could do the same.
The Zomm, an “invisible” leash for your phone, will drop...
The revenue stream from a blockbuster patent is quickly expiring, and the Office of Technology Commercialization at the University of Minnesota is scrambling to find new ways to stay on solid footing.
OTC...
Matt Austin first met a representative from the Arts Institute International Minnesota at an assembly when he was in high school.
The for-profit college representative spoke to an assembly of all 60 students...
The University Of Minnesota Board Of Regents Thursday unanimously approved a 15 percent service fee for technologies licensed through the Office of Technology Commercialization.
Originally, these costs...
Sitting in the cafeteria in CERN particle physics laboratory, Jeremiah Mans was just thinking about how smoothly everything leading up to the first scheduled run of the Large Hadron Collider had gone when...
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles would have probably preferred cleaner storm sewers, and at the University of MinnesotaâÄôs St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, a group of researchers has found a solution.
The...
Christopher Allen Trautman faces 14 criminal charges, including three counts of criminal vehicular homicide, after being involved in a fatal hit-and-run over the weekend that left one University of Minnesota...
A University of Minnesota student was injured in one of two fatal hit-and-run incidents in Rochester over the weekend.
Chemical engineering senior Chris Glenski of Rochester is in critical condition and...
Black Friday is over, but shoppers will soon scour the Internet for deals during the burgeoning Cyber Monday tradition.
This year, nine out of 10 retailers will have deals online for Cyber Monday âÄî...
One of the most significant discoveries of the 20th century is quickly becoming obsolete. Antibiotics, which are among the most prescribed medications, are losing their value due to drug-resistant bacteria,...
A University of Minnesota professor is looking for buyers for his route evacuation planning software.
The evacuation route planning and large event transportation software, funded by a National Science...
A University of Minnesota researcher is leading an international team that has shed new light on one of the most studied topics in history âÄî superconductivity. The research could potentially...
After the shocking arrest of 17 of their peers Monday, the Somali community of Minnesota is struggling to grasp the bust of a human trafficking sex ring that spanned three states.
Federal and local law...
Halloween is making an encore this Saturday at the Mystery Science Room as part of the Math & Science Family Fun Fair.
The Mystery Science Room, a creation of aerospace engineering assistant professor...
Housed in a large room hidden beneath an office building on the University of MinnesotaâÄôs West Bank, an array of servers store terabytes upon terabytes of information, and that dataâÄôs...
The worldâÄôs most popular social networking website, Facebook, was a predictor for nearly 100 races across the country in the 2010 midterm elections through its candidate âÄúFanâÄù...
DFL incumbents Betty McCollum and Keith Ellison, representing MinnesotaâÄôs 4th and 5th Congressional Districts respectively, won their districts with landslide victories Tuesday.
Ellison beat...
Tucked away in Morrill Hall, one group of University of Minnesota faculty stands on the front lines against thousands of attacks on the University every year.
They are the Office of Information Technology...
The University of Minnesota five-campus system climbed one ranking spot in spending on science and engineering research and development among universities nationwide.
The University ranks 10th this year....
In 1997, when only 18 percent of Americans used the Internet, John Riedl had already become famous in the field of computer science.
The University of Minnesota professor had just finished creating an...
Jake GaveâÄôs roommates donâÄôt consider him a violent person.
Gave plays video games like âÄúHaloâÄù and âÄúCall of DutyâÄù every day for three hours. To...
The College of Science and Engineering will be celebrating its 75-year anniversary Tuesday with a kick-off celebration outside of Northrop Mall.
"It's an occasion for us to get together with faculty, students...
The University of Minnesota will be represented twice this month in the first-ever USA Science & Engineering Festival in Washington, D.C.
James Kakalios, professor of âÄúEverything I Know About...
Human operators control nearly every aspect of the U.S. electrical grid.
Computers canâÄôt keep up with the massive amounts of data that pour through a system designed last century, so operators...
University of Minnesota researchers last week delved into research of offshore wind energy storage, thanks to a $2 million grant awarded this summer by the National Science Foundation.
The University won...
Tucked away on the fifth floor of Shepherd Laboratories at the University of Minnesota is the Medical Devices Center âÄî a playground for anyone in the fields of biomedical or chemical engineering.
Begun...
The St. Anthony Falls Laboratory sits awkwardly in the historic St. Anthony Falls district, an enduring symbol of the Great Depression.
Since the lab was built in the 1930s, the land surrounding it has...
The Bell Museum will be showcasing a new exhibit called "Sustainable Shelter" that will look at innovative home-building technologies and different ways to cut energy costs.
The exhibit will open Oct....
Students who were not able to purchase tickets for the sold-out Kid Cudi Homecoming concert will have another chance to buy tickets Tuesday, as the venue has been changed toWilliams Arena.
The University...
A female University of Minnesota student was the victim of an alleged sexual assault Sunday morning at an off-campus fraternity house.
The assault took place at the Chi Psi fraternity house at 1515 University...
Students who were not able to purchase tickets for the sold-out Kid Cudi Homecoming concert will have another chance to buy tickets Tuesday, as the venue has been changed to Williams Arena.
The University...
Though the Deepwater Horizon oil leak happened 1,500 miles away and 5,000 feet under water, a team of University of Minnesota engineering students is contributing to the cleanup.
The College of Science...
Ethel is 101 years old. When she slipped and fell last spring, injuring herself, a University of Minnesota medical student was there by her side.
“Lindy was the first one there,” June Englund,...
University of Minnesota research teams will continue improving stem cell transplants and treatments with renewed five-year program research grants totaling $26 million.
The National Cancer...
University of Minnesota research teams will continue improving stem cell transplants and treatments with renewed five-year program research grants totaling $26 million
The National Cancer Institute awarded...
Exiting the commuter bus that brings him to the University of Minnesota campus every morning, Gavin Ovsak makes sure to duck his head slightly before hopping onto the pavement at Coffman Union.
At...
A grant awarded to the University of Minnesota this summer will result in a new computing system for the University’s Supercomputing Institute for Advanced Computational Research.
The new supercomputer...
The University of Minnesota was awarded a $7 million grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to build a component of a NASA spacecraft slated to travel to the sun by 2018.
The University...
The University of Minnesota was awarded a $7 million grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration this week to build a spacecraft component for a 2018 unmanned mission to the sun.
NASAâÄôs...
Almost a year after the University of Minnesota announced the transition from GopherMail to Google’s Gmail, the school is preparing for the final leg of the switch.
At the end of August, the Office...
Apple joined the social media market last Wednesday with the announcement of iTunes Ping, a music social network made available through the new iTunes update.
With the announcement of Sony’s Qriocity,...
The first major snowstorm of the season passed through the Twin Cities this week, and a snow emergency resulted in 1,052 cars towed in Minneapolis since Tuesday. But as drivers rush to secure their vehicles...
Residents of the Linden Hills neighborhood in Minneapolis are leading the way in efforts to reduce the amount of waste in landfills. The neighborhood, consisting of more than 2,500 households, is participating...
Thousands of bargain-seeking customers filled the Mall of America this Black Friday, some as early as mid-afternoon Thanksgiving Day, to take a shot at purchasing some of the most discounted items of the...
The University of Minnesota unveiled its first international branch late last month with a new office in Beijing. The University hopes the office will attract more international students from China as...
In October, the Obama administration announced that the federal government will not prosecute users or distributors of medicinal marijuana as long as they follow state laws, the latest part of a trend...
Condoleezza Rice spoke at a synagogue in St. Louis Park Sunday, addressing issues related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, terrorism and the spread of democracy in the Middle East. RiceâÄôs...
A new method of transit often means change for a neighborhood and with light-rail transit coming in the future, the West Bank area of Minneapolis is no different. A former University of Minnesota architecture...
The Students for Sensible Drug Policy group is preparing to propose a âÄúGood SamaritanâÄù policy for the University of Minnesota, which would allow students to contact emergency services...
A group of University of Minnesota researchers and BioCee, a University start-up company, received a $2.2 million research grant by the Department of EnergyâÄôs to research bacteria as a biofuel....
While Metro Transit Police boast an almost perfect record of fare compliance, some riders are skeptical. Most passengers pay before boarding the light rail, and even with no barrier or turnstiles to enforce...
The product of two years of hard work was on display on the National Mall this past week as the University of MinnesotaâÄôs Solar Decathlon team placed fifth overall in the United States Department...
The University of Minnesota Solar Decathlon team placed fifth out of 19 international teams in the United States Department of Energy Solar Decathlon Friday. The team built a solar-powered house that included...
It wasnâÄôt on a Magical Mystery Tour, but the John Lennon Educational School Bus has enough recording industry equipment inside to impress any Beatles fan. The fully-equipped recording studio...
Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., joined University President Bob Bruininks on Monday to discuss abolishing the Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) in favor of a Direct Lending program. The FFEL, initiated by...
An anonymous fan behavior tip line specifically introduced by the University of Minnesota for Gopher football games went live Friday. Spectators for the Homecoming game and future Gopher football games...
Neo-Nazis from a local branch of the National Socialist Movement (NSM) attempted to protest an anti-racism workshop held Saturday at the Midtown YWCA in Minneapolis, but were turned back by a counter-protest...
A chemical leak at the University of Minnesota Aquatics Center prompted an immediate evacuation of the facility this morning. Authorities evacuated the building at 9:59 a.m. citing Freon leaking from the...
A new program unveiled Sept. 14 in Minneapolis will allow people to either call or text anonymous tips to a national crime hotline aimed at reducing gun violence. Minneapolis is the latest addition to...
A year ago, the Dinkydome was another place for students to study and eat. Now, while the dome is still there, the bustling of customers and the smells of food are gone; replaced by the odor of drywall...
