>Tim Mueller, accounting and finance alum Even bystanders without medical experience were able to lend a hand to the disaster scene. Tim Mueller was going for a run near West River Parkway when the...

;University students are traveling more than ever. The number of study-abroad students has more than doubled since 1998, according to Learning Abroad Center statistics. As travel becomes more commonplace...

The Oak Street Cinema near the corner of Oak Street and Washington Avenue announced Thursday it will close until Labor Day. The theater's attendance is typically lower in the summer and parking is always...

Pop quiz: Which states were the 13 original colonies? Who said, "Give me liberty or give me death?" Which constitutional amendments address voting rights? Those are three of the 99 questions immigrants...

All that's left of Phuoc Tran's life in Vietnam fits inside a small red box. Among its contents are the shirt she wore on her five-day ocean voyage from Saigon to Malaysia and a handkerchief she was embroidering...

Dealing with a parent fighting overseas is tough enough for military children. In a controversial war like that in Iraq, soldiers' children also have to deal with conflicting opinions at home. Operation:...

Reading, writing, arithmetic - and human rights? That's the concept behind the University's Institute for Global Studies' workshop designed to help K-12 teachers integrate human rights studies into their...

What if every book in the world - from "Hamlet" to "Harry Potter" - existed in digital form on one database? That idea may not be so far-fetched. The University announced June 6 that it will allow Google...

Washington Avenue pizza shop Manhattan Loft isn't remodeling, as its owners told The Minnesota Daily for the April 27 article, "Spring brings eatery revamp." In fact, the restaurant won't be reopening...

Though existing programs at the University have been promoting connections to India, a new center will soon tie those efforts together. Last Wednesday, Republican Gov. Tim Pawlenty signed the omnibus higher...

Over Memorial Day weekend, many remembered the men and women serving in Iraq. But a Minneapolis art exhibit has been paying tribute to stories of the Korean War for the past several months. "I never realized,...

If anyone's life story ever embodied the phrase "pay it forward," it might be Dena Sanford's. She was an adviser in the University's Ronald E. McNair Scholars office, which helps low-income and first-generation...

After more than 100 years in the University's Stadium Village neighborhood, the Harvard Market on the corner of Harvard Street and Washington Avenue Southeast closed May 9. The Harvard Market East, a larger...

It's possible for every Minnesotan to have health coverage without taxes having to budge, according to Attorney General Mike Hatch. In his Aug. 9 speech at the University's Humphrey Institute of Public...

Behind the fun and games of the Minnesota State Fair, there is a million-dollar business that makes the cheese curds sizzle and the Ferris wheels go 'round. Make that a $30.8 million-dollar business. That...

The Food and Drug Administration's announcement of a new push to sell emergency contraception without a prescription is prompting feelings of relief and concern in the University community. On July 31...

With a growing number of local immigrant and refugee populations such as Somali and Hmong, doctors are seeing more patients with different health needs than patients born in the United States. To meet...

The quest for cleaner, cheaper fuel is on many people's minds as gasoline prices increase, but it's riddled with obstacles for researchers and industry leaders. University applied economics researchers...

The July 11 blasts in Bombay, India, have left some worried about old tensions between India and Pakistan and others concerned about increasing Islamic terrorist activity in and around India. Over the...

Although the bombs that landed in Lebanon and Israel are thousands of miles away, for some members of the University community, the violence feels much closer to home. Since fighting between Israel and...

Fifteen-year-old Fallon Boyle carefully drilled away at a cavity in her patient's tooth Tuesday at the University Dental School's lab in Moos Tower. The tooth was plastic, and her patient was a metal head...

Many University students are familiar with the tales of Bob Dylan hanging around Dinkytown in the 1960s. Stories about the apartments where he lived and now-defunct coffeehouses where he played are the...

Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak donned a colonial-style coat and tri-cornered hat Saturday afternoon to sign the Declaration of Energy Independence. Arctic explorer Will Steger and Scott Benson, chairman...

What might have looked like a dinner among friends Monday at the Riverside Avenue Perkins was, for some, the beginning of an important journey. About a dozen people representing several Twin Cities colleges...

Dinkytown is known for many things, but high-end fashion isn't really one of them. "When you think Dinkytown, it's more like Everyday People or Urban Envy ­- the consignment places," said psychology...

A year ago last Friday, Bill Matson, a New Hampshire stock portfolio manager, had a heart valve replaced. To commemorate the procedure Friday, he took a tour of the University's Experimental Surgical Services...

One summer day in 1993, when child psychology and Chicano studies junior Abraham Castro was 7 years old, he found himself standing alone outside a Southern California restaurant. The people his family...

The first verse of one chapter in the Quran commands, "Read in the name of your Lord Who created." Echoing that verse, one of several speakers at the Fifth Annual Somali Education Night on Friday told...

Few students outside the School of Music are likely to ever wander through the practice rooms of Ferguson Hall. But if they do, they might be surprised by what they hear. Kris Isackson is an ecology, evolution...

Imagine exams and lectures were replaced by laboratories where students research course material on their own instead of taking notes from a professor. Imagine Psychology 1001 began by covering the most...

Benjamin Franklin once said, "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." On Thursday at the University Campus Club's fourth annual beer tasting there was plenty of happiness and beer. Phil...

The nomination of a new dean Thursday marked a milestone for the new College of Education and Human Development and the University as a whole. Darlyne Bailey, current dean of the Teachers College and vice...

Anyone strolling along Northrop Mall on Thursday night would have come upon several dozen little tarp structures dotting the lawns - and might have wondered what they were. As their final project, students...

The Acorn Ballers, El Muerto Verde and The Squirrels were just a few of the 17 teams that stepped onto the court Saturday at Williams Arena to raise money for children impacted by HIV and AIDS. Hoops for...

In her award-winning documentary, filmmaker and actress Angela Shelton looked up every woman in America who shared her name. She found that 28 of 40 Angela Sheltons who responded had been raped, beaten...

While many students might be carousing with friends, five members of the University Marching Band have been spending their Friday nights practicing their routines at the Bierman athletics complex. These...

The Minnesota Daily won 12 awards this weekend in the 2005 regional Mark of Excellence Awards, presented by the Society of Professional Journalists. Second-best all-around daily student newspaper, best...