At the end of spring semester, the University community experiences an exodus of students, leaving many classrooms and apartments empty until fall. But the departure of students from campus also affects...

Despite average faculty salaries rising 3 percent nationwide during 2002-03, not all institutions are seeing the gains. Private schools are faring better than public universities. In an annual presentation...

During the 1950s and 1960s, university researchers around the country, including some at the University of Minnesota, performed experiments testing the effects of hallucinogenic drugs on humans. The University...

Opportunities at the University for student journalists are growing, thanks in part to the Student Services Fees Committee and School of Journalism and Mass Communication. After extensive debate, the fees...

For more than a decade, Autechre (pronounced 'aww-tek-er') has charted the frontiers of electronic music, traversing the bleeding edges of technology and art. The group is a collaboration between Britons...

The University honored 11,000 faculty and staff members Tuesday with ceremonies on all four campuses celebrating the $62 million raised through employee contributions since 1996. The donations will be...

It only takes a quick stroll along the Washington Avenue Bridge to realize something odd is afoot on the West Bank. Outside Anderson Hall, nestled next to the bridge, a mysterious tree stands, branches...

Dr. B.J. Kennedy, a distinguished cancer researcher, caregiver and retired University Regents' professor, died April 6 in his Minneapolis home from multiple myeloma, a cancer of the bone marrow. He was...

Vern Sutton, the celebrated singer, actor, director and teacher, is ending his lengthy career in the University's School of Music this May, but he is not dropping the curtain on his calling just yet. Sutton...

University faculty and staff said they are upset about a new administrative proposal to increase University employees' health care co-payments and premiums. Phyllis Walker, president of AFSCME Local 3800,...

Robert Hudec, a University professor emeritus of law, died in his sleep at his Florida vacation home on March 12. He was 68. Hudec's expertise in international trade law made him a leading authority on...

For years women were underrepresented in many scientific fields, a trend only recently reversing itself with rising numbers of women in medicine and the life sciences. But the inequity between women and...

Burton Paulu, a retired University media resources director and journalism professor, died Saturday of Parkinson's disease complications. He was 92. For 40 years under Paulu, the University's noncommercial...

Clarifying a statement he made about possible campus closures in a newspaper report last month, University President Robert Bruininks said Tuesday there are currently no plans to eliminate any campuses,...

Confronted with $25 million in departmental cuts for 2003 and another round of budget reductions expected for the 2004-05 biennium, University faculty and staff are finding ways to combat the financial...

David Taylor, dean of the University's General College, received Morehouse College's Gandhi, King, Ikeda Community Builders prize Saturday at the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs' Cowles Auditorium. Taylor,...

Paul Everett Meehl, a retired University regents' professor of psychology, died last Friday at his Minneapolis home after battling chronic myelomonocytic leukemia. He was 83. Meehl's colleagues said his...

Dr. Mark Mahowald, a University neurology professor, has an important message for students everywhere: Get more sleep! "The biggest sleep problem amongst college students is sleep deprivation," Mahowald...

When most people travel, medical care is often low on their list of worries. But if a traveler suffers serious illness or injury far from home, the situation can quickly turn grim given possible language...

As the debate over a possible U.S.-led war against Iraq intensifies, University students and faculty are speaking out - some justifying war, others pleading for peace. University political science junior...

Almost five months after departing to focus on his unsuccessful 2002 gubernatorial bid, Tim Penny returned to a University classroom Monday to teach a public affairs course. Penny, who spent six terms...