The Goldstein Gallery recently received gifts totaling $14,000 from two local retailers to help fund the "Fashion for the Millennium" exhibit. The exhibit is part of the College of Human Ecology's centennial...

The University libraries received their largest private donation of books Wednesday, gaining more than 11,000 from Elmer Andersen, former governor and former chairman of the Board of Regents. Movers emptied...

The Crime Prevention Committee in the state House of Representatives killed a bill that might have allowed the University to grow industrial hemp. The committee voted down the bill 10-7 on Tuesday amid...

Legislators sat around a table late into the evening passing around a bag of hemp -- hemp chips, that is. Legislators in the House Agriculture Committee were debating the merits of a bill that would allow...

Loss of muscle mass has been thought of as a hard reality of growing old. But Dr. William Evans, a researcher in geriatrics, said this loss can be reduced. Evans spoke at the Food Science and Nutrition...

Dancing, pounding her bare feet on the hollow stage to the spiritual song, "I'm gonna stay on the battlefield," Ananya Chatterjea portrayed the rage of rape, and its aftermath when it goes unpunished. The...

In a greenhouse on the St. Paul campus kids are planting the seeds that will soon be 4-foot long flowers hanging from stands across the metro area. The program is called Kids, Education, the Environment...

Along with booze, guns and cigarettes, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms will soon be regulating ice cream, thanks to one University researcher. Ice Cream Bar Inc., along with University food...

Rather than go through the University for her office furniture, Susan Larson ordered her new office furniture through a Swedish manufacturer. This is one of the small things Larson, executive director...

An Oregon farm workers' union is trying to recruit University students to boycott the Gardenburger, a vegetarian menu item offered by University Dining Services. The union -- Northwest Treeplanters &...

A pink feather boa frames the computer monitor in University Regent Michael O'Keefe's downtown office, and a Jimi Hendrix t-shirt sits on his desk -- gifts from friends helping the regent to dress like...

City officials planning on University contributions for a campus bike path are out of luck. The chairman of the Minneapolis Bicycle Advisory Committee wants the University to contribute 20 percent of the...

The St. Paul Student Center sits back slightly from Buford Avenue, tucked behind a large flowerbed and trees. Two stories high, it squats discreetly into the ground, blending quietly into a quiet campus. On...

While food service provider Aramark Corp. did what the University asked of it one year ago -- turn debt into profit -- faculty and staff are not satisfied with the quality and prices of food. A survey...

The recent extension of parking enforcement hours on the St. Paul campus has student groups up in arms, claiming that although they're the ones most affected, they didn't give their consent to the Jan....

After helping feed NASA astronauts in the 1960s, Ted Labuza is using his most recent patent to help feed those of us stuck on Earth. Grocery shoppers can use Labuza's invention, a sticker sensitive to...

The huge responsibility of bringing together the scattered interest groups of Minnesota's environment lies with a 14-member council housed in a small office on the St. Paul campus. The group of loggers,...

With hog prices at the bottom of the bucket, the University has formed a relationship with hog producers to provide financial assistance, marketing guidance or just entertainment. The University Swine...

Third-year law student David Fuller is working an unpaid internship through a clinical Law School class. With a wife and two kids, tuition expenses and no income, tax season can be one of the few profitable...

Problems like global warming, pest management, population increases and soil erosion will likely be manageable in the next 50 years, said Regents' Professor Vernon Ruttan on Monday. But he cautioned that...

Using the example of the formerly popular, but now defunct diet pill combination fenfluramine and phentermine, assistant professor Richard Kingston spoke Tuesday about how nutritional supplement nightmares...

About 200 parking contracts for students on the St. Paul campus become available today from Parking and Transportation Services. The contracts are part of a broad parking program that will take effect...

An iMac computer was one of the rewards available for students who attended the Community Service Fair on the St. Paul campus Wednesday. The other rewards -- such as volunteering -- were more prevalent...

During a three-month study testing the effectiveness of a little-known fiber supplement, a team of University researchers discovered the supplement's ability to boost human immune function -- better than...

A leak from a 12-foot pipe on the roof of the Tate Lab of Physics produced a three-story plume of steam and a powerful noise resembling a steam whistle Monday morning, according to eye witnesses. The plume...

Hanging from scaffolding and frothing at the mouth while shouting obscenities down upon the crowd about tuition increases, a University student made his protest of the University Gateway building. "Where...

A controversial timber sale in north central Minnesota has been delayed while two University fish and wildlife scientists conduct research that may help mediate the controversy. This postponement marks...

For more than 23 years, the Maya Market has sold its woolen goods in a small, apartment-like store above 14th Avenue Southeast in Dinkytown, urging pedestrians into the store with a simple index finger...

After selling buttons for the afternoon to raise money for Homecoming, more than 30 royalty candidates filled a section of bleachers in the Sports Pavilion on Friday night to show their support for the...

They don't carry membership cards or walk around in groups together, but the collection of 32 freshmen in Bailey Hall do share one binding feature: good grades. The students are all part of a new organization...

A piece of University history is living on in the basement of Willey Hall this month in the retrospective art exhibit of a former graduate student who died almost two years ago. The Catherine E. Nash Gallery...