The Minnesota Daily’s Board of Directors has announced the Office of the Publisher’s new staff for the upcoming academic year.
Effective later this month, Andreas Quinn, Cody Nelson and Megan...
Hanging 2 meters above the ground in backyards and parks, more than 200 sensors are measuring the air temperature around the Twin Cities metro area.
University of Minnesota assistant climate professors...
Amid the raging national debate over drones infringing on privacy, some University of Minnesota professors are pushing for heavier use of the technology to advance agricultural research.
Last week, the...
A University of Minnesota-licensed manufacturer released test results earlier this month in response to allegations of one of their products containing potentially dangerous levels of arsenic.
Michigan-based...
Ellen Andersen has been coming to the University of Minnesota’s Raptor Center for more than 25 years, and her family has been donating to the center for more than 30.
The center was a regular stop...
A disc saw screamed in the basement of Keller Hall, spraying a fine mist of wood shavings into the air. The freshly cut board was made to complete the paneling on a homemade arcade game, complete with...
Three years and $85 million dollars later, the University of Minnesota’s Physics and Nanotechnology building is almost fully moved in. And tomorrow they’ll be showing the place off.
The University...
The 44 million Americans expected to get health insurance under the Affordable Care Act this year could include those cycling in and out of the nation’s prison system.
Under the ACA, Medicaid will...
If University of Minnesota students need their computers fixed, they’ll soon have to pay full price.
On May 19, the Office of Information Technology will no longer offer discounted computer hardware...
Minnesota’s first alternative teacher licensing program could begin as soon as June, pending Minnesota Board of Teaching approval of the University of Minnesota’s proposed partnership with...
Biochemistry senior Danielle Harding is surrounded by home brewers.
Her friends, her boyfriend and even her father brew their own beer, so it comes as no surprise that she’s taken an interest in...
Sehoya Cotner is more comfortable talking about sex than her own accomplishments.
And that attitude has landed her one of the most prestigious teaching awards at the University of Minnesota.
The Evolution...
University of Minnesota physicists, along with a nationwide team of researchers, say they’ve discovered the first evidence that can explain some decades-old mysteries about the infantile stages of...
A Michigan-based environmental nonprofit is claiming it found high levels of arsenic in a University of Minnesota Gophers key ring purchased from a major retailer on the Twin Cities campus.
Officials from...
Sometimes the best way to learn is to dive right into the deep end and computer technology is no exception to the rule.
On April 4, the University of Minnesota is hosting its third annual national Competition...
Climate change isn’t the only thing ecologists worry about when they consider how humans are impacting the natural world.
Two University of Minnesota professors say nitrogen and phosphorous from...
A foot of hard snow clings to the more than 70 acres of land at the Sannerud family farm in Ham Lake, Minn., where other farmers have planted corn and mushrooms and laid out compost.
For three generations,...
University of Minnesota researchers say they’re producing more data in a day than computers could hold less than a decade ago, and they’ll soon have extra support analyzing it.
In hopes...
Southeast Como residents may have a little less shade this spring.
Last week, city workers removed about 66 ash trees from the neighborhood that were infected by the emerald ash borer, a parasitic beetle...
Basem Al-Shayeb isn’t a typical undergraduate transfer student. He started his own student group, won third place in an international science competition and is now researching Parkinson’s...
Even in the harshest conditions, life finds a way to thrive.
More than 2,300 feet underground in the lowest recess of an old iron mine in northern Minnesota, researchers have found mysterious life in pools...
Walking on a treadmill may increase employee's overall work performance, according to a study released by Calson School of Management on Monday.
The study followed 40 employees in a financial services...
State grain may be in danger from high concentrations of a mineral salt that is produced by metal mining and other industrial discharge.
According to the Star Tribune, sulfate has long been associated...
In a time of decreased federal research funding, sometimes even cancer studies don’t make the cut.
After the sweeping federal budget cuts known as the sequester took effect last year, the funding...
In the basement of Moos Tower on Friday night, Alex Tsai had to find out who murdered her boss, an award-winning physicist, before the killer took her out next.
This plot was part of the University of...
When agricultural education sophomore Vinz Karl needed work last summer, he found a job educating children about agriculture through GoldPASS, the University of Minnesota’s job postings website.
But...
Two University of Minnesota researchers are examining one of the newest and fastest-growing markets in social media: Pinterest.
It’s the third largest English-language social network, growing 4,000...
About 500 miles away near Chicago, one of the world's largest particle accelerators is shooting an invisible beam at a soon to be complete particle detector in Ash River Minnesota. The goal? To detect...
James Johns swears fellow chemist Renee Frontiera noticed him first — it’s still a point of contention nine years later.
“[We] officially met in quantum mechanics class,” Frontiera...
HIV/AIDS treatment has majorly improved over the last decade — with advances from simpler drug regiments to longer life expectancy in patients and fewer side effects.
But University of Minnesota...
A patented chemical that helps purify water runoff could still be sitting in a University of Minnesota lab today if American Peat Technology didn’t license it last year.
But those negotiations took...
The University of Minnesota’s massive systems upgrade is entering its final stages after more than a year of planning, but students, faculty and staff still won’t see changes until December.
The...
University of Minnesota students may soon have one website to answer all of their campus related questions.
GopherAnswers.umn.edu is a new question-and-answer based website that launched in December to...
University of Minnesota professor Mostafa Kaveh has been waiting to hear back from the National Science Foundation on some of his grant proposals for more than six months — past the typical waiting...
With the medical device industry expected to grow more than 30 percent from its 2010 rate by 2015, the University of Minnesota wants to make sure its students are ready.
The Technological Leadership Institute,...
A plant that has been linked to liver damage could one day reduce lung cancer in smokers.
Researchers from the University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy and Masonic Cancer Center authored a study, released...
