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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 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...

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...