University employees in the Mayo Memorial Building returned to work this week without the deafening noise and clouds of dust that intermittently filled the hallways through the past month. Racing against...

Tuesday's settlement offers a mixed bag to health researchers at the University. Weary after the protracted battle against the Department of Justice, administrators find the conclusion a welcome relief. But...

Supporters called it an olive branch. Critics labeled it a sell out, or a buy off, or censorship. But media law specialists agree: KQRS-FM's recent apology, over radio host Tom Barnard's refusal to apologize...

Scott M. Larson Bar patrons at establishments near the University sat firing political thought at each other Tuesday night as televisions flickered election results of a Jesse Ventura gubernatorial win. Many...

University employees got wind of the news Monday: A vent in the Mayo Memorial Building misdirected air from a room where University employees disposed of radioactive waste. University officials, on the...

Editor's note: This is the final article in a series examining who pays for medical education and the economic changes in Minnesota's medical community that impact the University's Medical School. In...

Editor's note: This is the fourth in a series of five articles examining who pays for medical education and economic changes in Minnesota's medical community that impact the University's Medical School....

Editor's note: This is the third article in a series examining who pays for medical education and economic changes in Minnesota's medical community that impact the University's Medical School. Thursday's...

Editors note: This is the second in a series of articles examining who pays for medical education and economic changes in Minnesota's medical community that impact the University's Medical School. Wednesday's...

Editor's note: This is the first in a series of five articles examining a national funding crunch in medical education and the Medical School's efforts to grapple with the changes. Tuesday's article will...

What's in a name? At the University, months of planning and the aspirations of more than 300 medical faculty members who now constitute the University of Minnesota Physicians. Following the kick-off of...

The yellow school buses do not travel far: two and a half miles to the west. The destination lies less than 10 minutes away from the entrance of Mayo Memorial Building auditorium. The six buses intersect...

A legacy of suspicion and abuse will not end with one apology, Dr. Vanessa Gamble told a crowd of 150 people at Coffman Union on Thursday evening. As director of the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity...

Time stood still for Karen Ahab Monday at 3 p.m. Gently, she pulled the plug from the socket, stopping her alarm clock, commemorating her triumph forever. It was a moment to remember. For the first time...

Dr. John Day found the scenario perplexing. A Minnesota family visiting the University's Muscular Dystrophy Clinic had all the symptoms of the disorder, but existing genetic tests yielded negative results. None...

A line of glowing faces Wednesday relayed the good news: University cancer researchers and scientists won a highly competitive grant worth $5.4 million over the next five years. Doctors and administrators...

Jon Pryor was patient. And three hours later, Pryor's wait paid off. As a medical student interested in the University of Virginia, Pryor remained on campus after an interview to chat with a faculty member...

Jeevan Paul sat among the handful of medical students and faculty members gathered among pizza boxes and soda cans on Wednesday evening to talk shop. As an internal medicine resident, Paul works 80 hours...

As a medical technician at St. Joseph's Hospital in the 1950s, Sister Roland Davey sterilized and sharpened her own needles. Davey recalls mixing chemical solutions without gloves or protective gear....

Missing from the rows of budget items under scrutiny Friday at the Board of Regents meeting: the Medical School's bid for an early retirement package. Deadlines for including the proposal in the upcoming...

If smoking is a disease, as plaintiffs in Minnesota's tobacco trial contend, a $1.7 billion damage award sought by the state and Blue Cross Blue Shield could be the cure. University medical community...

Sitting side by side at 11 a.m., Mike Nelson and Mike Connelly appear drunk. The third-year University Medical School students have been somewhat tipsy -- on-again, off-again -- since 8:15 in the morning. Nelson...

and Scott M. Larson A second-year University Medical School student and Boy Scout troop supervisor was arrested and charged with sexually assaulting a juvenile male who was a member of the troop. Alan...

It wasn't the early hour that stymied the students. Almost 1,000 pre-medical students across the country taking the Medical College Admissions Test on Saturday morning found they could not answer the...

Smooth and pink, the color and size of a chicken breast, a healthy lung sits on the table sealed in a stiff plastic bag. Riddled with holes and pockmarked, a gray and tan emphysema-diseased lung rests...

Weighing checkbook balances against the delicate equilibrium of insulin in their bloodstream may be getting more difficult for low-income diabetics, according to a University study published in today's...

It's a discovery for the books -- the biochemistry books, not the record books. Published in today's issue of the "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences," biochemistry professor Greg Nelsestuen...

Family and friends will gather today in ravaged St. Peter, Minn., for the funeral of former University professor of veterinary medicine Dr. James Hanson. He died Sunday at Abbott Northwestern Hospital...

Long on the defensive in the battle against breast cancer, a national research team made a cautious move toward the offensive earlier this week, announcing the dramatic results of a preventative study...

Dr. Charles F. Moldow, chief of staff at Veterans Affairs Medical Center in south Minneapolis and a professor of medicine, will replace Dr. James White as Medical School associate dean for research on...

Late nights and spring break hangovers aren't the only culprits causing the red eyes and stuffy heads around campus. The early arrival of spring might be a welcome relief for sun-deprived Minnesotans,...

The first of April was no joke for the state's health care organizations who reported operating losses of $54 million for 1997. Although the organizations promised rate increases and further cost-saving...

It is an alluring prospect for surgeons: an ample supply of organs to end the loss of 3,000 patients who die each year while waiting for potential organs. The possibility of harvesting pig hearts and...

Maroon paint covers all but a small orange rectangle with room numbers stenciled in white. In the hall opposite, the hallmark tangerine borders of the former University Hospital remain untouched. The...

They swarmed toward the student union. Uniformly clad in black from the aerodynamic sunglasses that covered their eyes to their silver-studded boots, representatives from the DiscoverDebt credit card...

The preparations began on a Friday. Dr. Greg Vercellotti cleared his calendar and his desk for the weekend. Senior Associate Dean for Education in the Medical School, Vercellotti returned to his office...

The good news arrived in mid-February, when the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced the stunningly successful results of its study to reduce the transfer of the AIDS virus from mothers...

As an infectious disease specialist and a practicing pediatrician, Dr. Margaret Hostetter has seen the deadly yeast Candida Albicans attack, and sometimes kill, her young patients. "It was really the...

Rent is due. With the ending of February, another $1 million transfers from the University to boost Fairview Health System's bottom line. The monthly payment is the 14th of 32 the University agreed to...

Minnesota's medical providers and health insurers -- two groups not known for seeing eye to eye -- sat down for a dinner together Tuesday night on the University's West Bank. Concluding the School of...

Members of the House Higher Education Finance Division cast a vote of confidence Friday to proposals affecting University faculty members, a law clinic, and financial aid left reeling from a round of...

Medical School administrators, wrestling tight budgets and pressures to reinvigorate the college, are considering an early retirement proposal for senior faculty. The one-time-only offer would release...

The simple off-white metal box -- a DNA sequencer -- is easy to miss among the rows of flashing computers. But at $125,000, it's one of the Veterinary Teaching Hospital's most state-of-the-art tools....

The nation needs more women in positions of power, the victorious lawyer of Roe v. Wade told a crowd of 40 students Wednesday at Coffman Union. The hour-long lecture was part pep talk and part history...

As patients wandered through Boynton Health Service's sterile hallways for examinations Friday, the doctors, nurses and administrators underwent an evaluation of their own. Friday capped the health clinic's...

If recent allegations against President Clinton prove true, Congress should impeach him, associate law professor Michael Paulsen told an audience of about 150 on Monday at the Law School. Joined by Law...

When the University's first class of pharmaceutical trainees starts its clinical rounds this summer, they'll have a little more elbow room. In a partnership approved by the Academic Health Center-Fairview...

The words "moving forward with excellence," echoed many times Wednesday by Medical School Dean Alfred Michael, are words he hopes will become synonymous with the school's reputation by Jan. 1, 2000. On...

January might be too late for students seeking protection against the headaches and fatigue of influenza from a flu shot. The shot is most effective if received in October, before the advent of the flu...

This year it's first come, first serve for freshmen applying to the College of Biological Sciences. The college, which admitted its first freshmen class in fall 1997, has become a popular option for prospective...

University students take home more than the stale smell of cigarettes from a visit to their favorite crowded smoky bar or coffee shop. According to a study published Wednesday, secondhand smoke greatly...

A University first-year medical student is taking big strides with her study on small steps. Senior citizens who stroll the skyways in Minnesota's winter months now have some cold, hard facts to back...

The University's School of Dentistry is banking on some extra cash from the state Legislature to establish a full-time clinic and satellite school in northern Minnesota. If the dental legislative request...

In a blinding concentration of white, the University's first-year medical students received their clinical coats and a warm welcome from Minnesota's professional community Saturday. About 150 students,...

Standing in a crowded third-floor room of the University's Masonic Cancer Center, Iowa native Jim Oliger said his good-byes and thank-yous to staff members assembled around him. Oliger concluded his participation...

Bob Elde, College of Biological Sciences dean, took a slight detour Tuesday in Hibbing, Minn., for a glimpse of Bob Dylan's boyhood home. Despite the slight diversion, Elde wasn't distracted from the...

For Stephen Chou, former University electrical engineering professor, less is better. Chou and his 16-member Nano Structures Laboratory pioneered a new manufacturing process that fits more information...

Undergraduates returning for the new quarter can find some extra help preparing for papers online, thanks to two new World Wide Web search tools created by University librarians. Outnumbered 4,000 to...

The pain in 19-year-old Morgan Montgomery's knee hurt the most after a hard workout. His 7-year-old hockey injury continued to agitate him; the joint was often tender from walking or sitting too long. Montgomery's...

EAST GRAND FORKS, Minn. -- Scott Balek's first trip back home to First Street following the April 18 flooding was to clean out the few remaining items that survived the river water that touched his bedroom's...

It is possible for actors to live off of soup, cheese and tax returns while working for the "big break," said actor Richard Hatch -- and he speaks from experience. "We had a big bag of about 500 cans...

Conveniently placed in front of the cash register at Dinkytown Liquor is the Bance's Unique, a $2 cigar that is the store's top seller. For many customers, the lure of the Unique is irresistible. "It's...

In the town of Mt. Vernon, N.Y., on the outskirts of the Bronx, Jack Zipes first experienced the bigotry and intolerance that would later become the focus of his life's work. Growing up Jewish in the...

For college students, the new year doesn't always mean a fresh start. January and February can become a stressful time for students on a limited budget as they struggle to balance holiday credit card...

The use of unsubstantiated World Wide Web information by a former White House press secretary sparked debate at the University surrounding Internet reliability. Pierre Salinger made public accusations...