The University of Minnesota has not renamed a building on campus since its founding in 1851, a record kept after the Board of Regents meeting last month.
In spite of more than a year of student...
The University of Minnesota has not renamed a building on campus since its founding in 1851, a record kept after the Board of Regents meeting last month.
In spite of more than a year of student advocacy,...
When students fill out the end-of-semester Student Rating of Teaching form, it usually signals their stress is almost over. But for the instructors, it can be just the beginning.
Some instructors have...
The University of Minnesota's Board of Regents voted against renaming four campus buildings despite protesters commandeering a special meeting Friday afternoon to decry the resolution.
Regents voted...
The Board of Regents will vote Friday on a resolution to decline President Eric Kaler's preliminary recommendations to rename Coffman Union, Nicholson Hall, Middlebrook Hall and Coffey Hall.
The board...
The debate over building names at the University of Minnesota hinges on different approaches to interpreting the same historical archive.
After a University task force recommended renaming four buildings...
Two hundred miles south of Cairo, in an old part of Egypt west of the river Nile, there is life in the city of the dead.
Wood-decaying fungi have been feasting in the tombs of Abydos for millennia, leaving...
It has become increasingly common for staff at the Disability Resource Center to find a sign on a colleague’s door warning them someone is taking a test inside.
The Senate Committee on Student Affairs...
Next fall, the newly renovated residence hall will welcome students to live in a new multicultural living-learning community in a building that once contributed to segregation on the University of Minnesota...
Driving north on Interstate 94 out of Minneapolis, to the right is an industrial corridor where air quality is traded for roof shingles and concrete. To the left are predominantly black neighborhoods with...
Starting a business is a daunting task: The time commitment and risk of failure can keep researchers from bringing their inventions to market.
But a new University of Minnesota program offers help.
The...
After getting her ACT score back, Bethany Novak said she remembers going home and crying, "I’m not getting in anywhere."
Her graduating class in Dahlen, North Dakota was four. “With small schools,...
Two University Senate committees say some University of Minnesota regents violated their guiding principles when criticizing the task force that wrote a report recommending renaming four University buildings.
The...
The smell of freshly cut garlic fills the busy lab as it wafts into the halls of McNeal Hall.
Chicken broth churns in shining steel pots. Every once in a while, there’s the plop of a potato tossed into...
Only designated animals would be allowed in University of Minnesota buildings, according to a proposed administrative policy.
A work group led by University Services is drafting a policy that would prohibit...
When disease ecology professor Meggan Craft asked 15 fourth-year veterinary medicine students how they thought climate change will factor into their future profession — the responses were what she anticipated.
There...
The recently installed wash station in Coffman Union is just down the hall from the Muslim Students Association.
In it, a grimy basin waits in the corner behind an non-locking door, and water drips from...
The University of Minnesota has suspended its relationship with the world’s largest telecommunications equipment company.
In a memorandum sent to University deans on Feb. 14, Vice President for Research...
A University Senate committee has determined the University of Minnesota’s decision to delay a controversial reproductive health fellowship did not violate academic freedom.
The committee also criticized...
A University of Minnesota task force issued recommendations that, if accepted, would be unprecedented in higher education — renaming four buildings tied to administrators who exhibited racist and anti-Semitic...
A task force charged with reviewing the names of four University of Minnesota buildings has recommended to strip the buildings of their names.
In a thrice-delayed report, the Task Force on Building Names...
The nation avoided another government shutdown Friday, but University of Minnesota researchers are still feeling the effects of the last one.
When President Donald Trump signed a bipartisan budget deal...
The University of Minnesota sends approximately 6,000 students abroad each year, and it wants to have a better idea of where they are.
A proposed change to the University’s student travel policy would...
There was a moment in recording the Department of Surgery’s podcast when tears filled producer Amanda Brower’s eyes.
Dr. Raja Kandaswamy was describing performing a pancreas transplant on a 12-year-old...
Take a right off University onto Pleasant Street, and you enter a part of campus moms call a “lactation desert.”
There was no plan to accommodate nursing mothers when those buildings were constructed....
The latest version of a proposed University of Minnesota policy on gender identity attempts to reconcile free speech concerns with safeguarding gender expression.
Last week, the Office of Equal Opportunity...
For Rebecca Swenson, an assistant professor of agricultural communication and marketing, the cost of her course’s textbook wasn’t adding up.
She used a standard business communications textbook, but...
Sean O’Mara walks the St. Paul campus to get a break from writing his dissertation. The campus is beautiful, he said, but he can’t escape the guilt of not being in the lab.
“A month or two ago, I...
Design students are often put into the unenviable position of being asked, “Hey, I need you to be creative right now.”
Tane Danger, a University of Minnesota alumni and local improv comedian, promises...
As the University of Minnesota spends $500,000 a day for research projects typically funded by the federal government, a continued federal government shutdown sows uncertainty for the future of landmark...
