The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra ratified a new, three-year contract Monday after a months-long lockout but not before University of Minnesota School of Music students started questioning their career...
By: Roy Aker
University of Minnesota College of Design assistant professor Barry Kudrowitz teamed up with Oreo for a “Cookies vs. Cream” video series that has since gone viral on YouTube.
More...
BY CODY NELSON
University of Minnesota Parking and Transportation Services has won a 2012 Commuter Choice Award.
The annual award is sponsored by Metro Transit to recognize organizations, individuals and...
BY CODY NELSON
Former President Bill Clinton will make his second trip to Minnesota in less than a week.
According to a CBS article, Clinton will be speaking in St. Cloud on Sunday.
Clinton came...
BY CODY NELSON
The death toll from hurricane Sandy continues to rise in the Northeastern U.S. and Caribbean countries.
According to CNN, 97 people in the U.S. have been killed so far.
New York state...
By Cody Nelson
University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler will host a listening session to promote equity and diversity on campus this Wednesday.
The event will be held in Coffman Memorial...
Here's your Daily Digest for Oct. 4:
Digital footprint hurts college applicants
Online evidence of alcohol consumption and profanity are increasingly hurting college applicants,...
By Tyler Gieseke
A recent law passed by Gov. Mark Dayton allowing breweries to sell pints of beer on site prompted Surly Brewing Company to develop plans to build a destination brewery in the Twin Cities.
One...
By Hailey Colwell
Every Wednesday morning, Courtney Tchida packs her Prius with fresh produce for the St. Paul and Minneapolis campus farmers markets.
As the manager of the Cornercopia Student Organic...
By Tyler Gieseke
This year’s West Nile Virus outbreak could be most deadly.
With nationwide cases of severe West Nile Virus continuing to increase, the disease may claim more lives this year...
Here's your Daily Digest for Sept. 6, 2012:
Minnesota's drought is spreading.
Almost 63 percent of the state is rated as abnormally dry--an increase of about 9 percentage points since last week,...
Students no longer will have to guess whether it would be faster to trek to class instead of waiting for a Campus Connector.
This fall University of Minnesota students can know where the campus buses are,...
As the number of A grades awarded increases nationwide, University of Minnesota faculty are thinking of ways to assign meaning to a grade almost half of all students in a class receive.
To counteract grade...
A study of University of Minnesota salaries showed unexplained gaps between male and female faculty members, prompting female faculty members to demand a salary review.
According to a study done by the...
Following the filing of an unfair election practices charge against the University of Minnesota, the Minnesota Bureau of Mediation Services announced the procedure for handling the allegations.
The Graduate...
Following a heated union election that resulted in a failed unionization attempt for graduate student workers, United Auto Workers is alleging the University of Minnesota committed unfair election...
Two bites into his kung pao beef in the Pioneer dining hall last Monday, Joel Fowler felt a tingle in his mouth and knew something wasn’t right.
The dish contained peanuts but wasn’t...
At times during her 11 years in the School of Mathematics, Carme Calderer has been the lone woman.
When she first took the job, there was only one other woman in her department. She’s one of three...
Chances are high students studying abroad will be in a group dominated by women.
About two-thirds of students studying abroad from the University of Minnesota are female, prompting the Learning...
After six months of searching and more than 100 job applications, 2010 University of Minnesota graduate Megan Smith went back to school.
Smith, who holds a bachelor’s degree in political science...
A program that connects University of Minnesota students with those who speak the foreign language they are studying both on campus and internationally is exploding with applicants.
TandemPlus, a program...
Students cut off financially by their parents can slip through the cracks when the University of Minnesota awards financial aid.
The Free Application for Federal Student Aid calculates parents’...
Taking a pass/fail course could backfire for University of Minnesota students.
Depending upon their chosen grade option, only some students can get credit with a D grade, leaving faculty members arguing...
Graduate student assistants are getting pumped up Monday for a union election.
The rally is to "show off the excitement" and broad support for an election to form a union for graduate assistants,...
University of Minnesota students can be a part of discovering history by helping researchers decipher Greek characters on 2,000-year-old fragments of ancient papyri discovered in Egypt.
Their participation...
The University of Minnesota will hold three blood drives during February, competing against the University of Wisconsin to donate the most blood to the American Red Cross, according to a press release.
Blood...
Here's your Daily Digest for Friday, Feb. 3:
Komen reverses decision to cut funding to Planned Parenthood
After a week of backlash sparked by the decision of the Susan G. Komen Foundation to halt funding...
About five months after its opening, Hot Diggity Dog in Stadium Village papered its windows and left a note announcing its closure Thursday.
The owners, University of St. Thomas graduates Andrew Jorgensen...
Colleges within the University of Minnesota are competing to enroll more students in order to net more tuition dollars.
By duplicating courses traditionally available in other colleges and applying to...
Allison Brenneise was humiliated when she had to say what she thought was obvious.
âÄúIâÄôm too fat for this chair.âÄù
For 315-pound Brenneise, sitting in the stadium-style seats...
Five international students at Dickinson State University in North Dakota were asked to leave because of poor English skills, according to the Associated Press.
The university, which emphasizes "educating...
The University of Minnesota may soon expand its Access to Success program across all freshman-admitting colleges and increase its scope to all four years.
Robert McMaster, vice provost and dean...
In an attempt to attract more Master of Business Administration students from majors outside the Carlson School of Management, the University of Minnesota will offer seniors in the University Honors Program ...
Thomas Sullivan, the University of MinnesotaâÄôs outgoing senior vice president for academic affairs and provost, is in the running to become president at the University of Vermont.
Sullivan was...
Despite the recent influx of international students at the University of Minnesota, resources like composition classes and student services have not been able to keep up with demand.
The number of international...
University of Minnesota graduate assistants came one step closer to forming a union Tuesday morning.
The GSWU/UAW organizers hand delivered a letter to President Eric Kaler to sign a joint petition...
The University of Minnesota is suing a website operator who posted its acclaimed psychological test online, saying itâÄôs a cheat sheet for people to outwit the personality test. Mark Rotenberg,...
The University of Minnesota filed a lawsuit Monday alleging violation of copyright law against a website operator who had posted the psychological test it developed online, according to Minnesota Public...
Unemployment rates for students with bachelor's degrees vary by major, with architecture, the arts and the humanities topping the list with the most graduate unemployed, a new study released Wednesday...
The University of Minnesota announced Tuesday the appointment of new vice president and chief information officer R. Scott Studham.
Studham will take office Feb. 13, according to the email sent by University...
University of Minnesota graduate assistants are taking another step towards unionization.
Graduate Student Workers United, UAW, a union for University of Minnesota graduate student assistants, is...
While the University of Minnesota continues to make progress toward its retention and four-year graduation goals, the College of Education and Human Development struggles to keep up with other freshman-admitting...
The University of Minnesota is among the top 10 universities in the nation with the most undergraduate students, according to a report by U.S. News and World Report.
The University came in 9th with about...
Over the past two weeks, finalists for director positions in the Multicultural Center for Academic Excellence and the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Ally Programs Office have talked with staff, students...
A cap on the number of transfer students admitted to the University of Minnesota starting in fall 2012 will make it more difficult for prospective students who start at two-year colleges.
For some of the...
Amber Billings completely forgot she entered in a design contest until she received a call from Orbit telling her she’d won $5,000 in July 2011.
“I was running around my house, trying to find my Dad,...
With less than a week before the party primary, Kari Dziedzic is leading the pack in fundraising in the race for the Senate District 59 special election.
Dziedzic raised $36,000 in the candidatesâÄô...
This week, the Office of Equity and Diversity at the University of Minnesota announced finalists for two open director positions in its department — the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Ally Programs...
The Office for Equity and Diversity at the University of Minnesota announced the finalists for its director of the Multicultural Center for Academic Excellence in an email Monday and invited public feedback.
The...
The College of Liberal Arts cut the English as a Second Language masterâÄôs degree in October, and the decision has since sparked backlash from University of Minnesota alumni, faculty and students.
The...
Here's your daily digest for Nov. 17.
More than 75 Occupy Wall Street protesters have been arrested in a clash with police, reported the New York Times. It said that officers could be seen punching protesters...
During Bobak HaâÄôEriâÄôs first teaching experience, he showed students how to correctly put a condom on a synthetic banana.
Before he went to law school, the adjunct University of Minnesota...
The University of Minnesota has stepped up its efforts to recruit out-of-state students in the past five years, bringing in $5,000 more in tuition and fees per student.
Their approach models a national...
John Fraser Hart grinned as he examined a World War II model aircraft for the first time in 20, maybe 30 years.
âÄúI loved to watch [the real ones],âÄù he said.
The University of Minnesota...
When registration begins for spring semester classes Tuesday, students looking for a higher GPA should consider taking an 8 a.m. class.
Early classes lead to higher average GPAs and decreased alcohol use...
A new class scheduling policy will go into effect during the 2012-13 school year, which promotes âÄúfair-use of classrooms,âÄù according to the Office of Classroom Management website.
This...
Minnesota amassed the fourth-highest average of student loan debt in the nation in 2010, according a report released Thursday.
It was also fifth in its percentage of 2010 students who graduated with debt,...
As a University of Minnesota junior, Taylor Kippels already owes about $25,000 in student loans.
The public relations major is financing college on her own dime and working two part-time jobs just to pay...
A campus connector en route to St. Paul was t-boned by a large truck Monday afternoon, injuring four people, said University of Minnesota police Chief Greg Hestness.
Three students and a University employee...
Herman Cain, a candidate for the GOP presidential nomination, denied sexual harassment allegations Monday after a report surfaced over the weekend of sexual harassment claims.
Politico reported that...
Law schools nationwide are coming under fire and litigation, for inflating their employment rates for recent graduates to prospective students.
Students alleged that they were duped by law schools that...
An additional 48 science, technology, engineering and math students admitted to the University of Minnesota Honors Program in fall 2011 are straining program resources.
Last week, the University announced...
When Jennifer Porter came back to work after the February 2011 birth of her son, she had to find a private place to pump breast milk twice daily.
Now, part of a grant from the Minnesota Department of Health...
While University of Minnesota employee health care costs continue to rise, health benefits for same-sex partners of University employees cost even more.
Because he is gay, Benjamin Munson has less take-home...
Increased state budget cuts have prompted a national discussion on controversial faculty productivity measures, and faculty members at the University of Minnesota are eager to set the record straight.
Some...
Eric Schwartz spent two days in a Honda packed with books and other belongings he needs as the new dean of the Humphrey School of Public Affairs âÄî a job he begins today.
The University of Minnesota...
Increased administrative costs created the University of Minnesota's budget crisis and lead to increased tuition, according to a presentation given by a finance analyst Friday, reported the Star Tribune.
Howard...
Judith Martin, a geography professor who had been at the University of Minnesota for more than 35 years, died Monday of complications from breast cancer treatment. She was 63.
Martin, who founded the UniversityâÄôs...
Today’s temperature surpassed the normal high by 20 degrees, according to the Star Tribune, and has some officials worried about fires.
While two years ago, the high on Oct. 12 was only 36 degrees, temperatures...
As diversity increases across the nation, the University of Minnesota faculty continues to play catch-up.
Just 16 percent of faculty was of color in 2010, according to University data, which is...
As unemployment has remained steady in Minnesota, Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak advocated for the American Jobs Act Tuesday, which he said could generate thousands of new jobs for the state in 2012.
President...
If you like word games, you might want to try a new iPhone app created by a University of Minnesota professor.
“Word Bounce,” a mash-up of Boggle and Tetris, was released Monday on iTunes, according...
Institutions like the University of Minnesota are targeting below-average students who can pay full tuition, according to a new study.
More than half of public doctoral universities said they have focused...
Professor Amanda Long thought Lucas KramerâÄôs mom was one of her chemistry students when the pair came to office hours.
ItâÄôs a common reaction to the 11-year-old student, who attends...
Here’s an excuse not to do any homework available only through online University resources Saturday night.
Information Technology services will be shut down for 12 hours beginning at 6 p.m. Saturday....
Sarah Hannine started her first year at the University of Minnesota as an academic sophomore.
She is one of an increasing number of freshmen who are entering with credits for required courses, and itâÄôs...
The mechanical engineering department is busting at its seams with students, and its equipment, space and staff are struggling to accommodate them.
An increase in the number of students has led to bigger...
Eliezer Santos doesn't have a doctorate in musicology, nor is English his first language. In many ways, he is not the typical University of Minnesota professor.
But through an initiative created last year...
As the student default rate continues to climb nationwide, fewer University of Minnesota students are having trouble paying back their loans.
The percentage of college students in loan default is the highest...
Robert Elde, dean of the College of Biological Sciences, will be the first of five candidates to come out on campus vying for the position of University of Minnesota senior vice president for academic...
Rob Stewart was 15 when he began using drugs. It became an addiction that led him to quit studying at Hamline University.
Now that heâÄôs four years sober and back at college, the 30-year-old senior...
The search for the next leader of the Carlson School of Management, a position which paid its former dean the second-highest annual salary at the University of Minnesota, is now underway.
Alison Davis-Blake,...
The University of Minnesota is one of seven Big Ten schools to receive a C on its teaching of general education to students, according to a study.
The American Council of Trustees and Alumni released Tuesday...
Mohamed Dirie grew up speaking Somali, but he was not able to read or write it until the University of Minnesota started an intermediate-level language course in fall 2009.
âÄúIt made me believe...
Kirsten Fischer thought she might make a career as a potter in Oregon after she finished graduate school.
While she loves pottery, it was when she tried teaching, as a kind of "test" at the University...
Starting in the fall, the University of Minnesota will no longer offer free tuition to low-income students through its University Promise Scholarship.
The maximum amount awarded to eligible students will...
Because of her effort to blend social justice themes with dance, Ananya Chatterjea became one of five choreographers to win a 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship.
The fellowships were awarded to 180 artists, scholars...
Colby Voigt was âÄújust a city boyâÄù until about two weeks ago, when he began training with a sheep for two hours every day.
The mortuary science freshman was encouraged to enter the Minnesota...
Former Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura said Monday he would consider running as vice president with Ron Paul in 2012, according to MinnPost.
He would join the ticket on the condition that Paul, a Texas...
Major companies warned customers about possible hacking attempts over the weekend after millions of consumer email addresses were stolen from a marketing-email service, according to the Associated Press.
Email...
The second floor of Coffman Union will likely require physical reconfiguration to provide a solution to the long-term problem of space allocation.
Members of cultural student groups expressed outrage at...
A breakthrough in the development of a biofuel could eventually eliminate the need for foreign oil, according to University of Minnesota researchers.
The team recently discovered how to use a protein to...
Austin Knott broke family tradition when he quit the Army ROTC program.
With a chief petty officer in the Navy reserve for a father, Knott planned to join the military out of college but preferred the...
Less than a quarter of applicants to the University of Minnesota will be accepted for next year after a 7 percent increase in freshman applications.
Of the 38,831 applications submitted to the UniversityâÄôs...
University of Minnesota senior Lillian Ballard studies for two hours every day in the Forestry Library. But with a new proposal to merge two St. Paul libraries, she could soon lose her quiet space âÄúon...
Some patients with eating disorders are finding solace in an unlikely place: visual art.
âÄúArt gives them a nonverbal approach to communicate the difficulties that theyâÄôre struggling...
Dean Alison Davis-Blake announced Tuesday her decision to resign from the position she has held for five years in the Carlson School of Management.
Davis-Blake accepted a deanship set to begin Aug. 22...
President ObamaâÄôs 2012 budget proposal on Monday allocated $200 million to the Central Corridor light-rail line.
The federal money is necessary to make the project go forward, Tim Busse, University...
Dean Alison Davis-Blake announced Tuesday her decision to resign from the position she has held for five years in the Carlson School of Management.
Davis-Blake accepted a deanship which is set to begin...
