Turntables and other DJ equipment fill Alex Amann’s home studio, where records and concert posters hang on the wall. Among all the music memorabilia, his University of Minnesota Bachelor of Science...
The founding director of the University of Minnesota’s Institute on the Environment, an internationally renowned researcher, recently announced he’ll leave his post in August.
Jonathan Foley’s...
Early Monday, Target’s board of directors issued a statement announcing that, after “extensive discussions,” it is the “right time for new leadership,” reported the Star Tribune.
35-year...
The College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences launched two new majors this academic year, but some say one has serious problems that need to be fixed.
Students in the college’s...
A White House task force formed to protect students from sexual assault released its highly anticipated first report Tuesday, offering new recommendations for colleges around the country.
The University...
A trial for the deaths of Haile Kifer, 18, and Nick Brady, 17 - who were killed on Thanksgiving Day 2012 - is nearing its completion.
Byron Smith, 65, is standing trial for shooting the two cousins in...
A bus of student environmental activists, including some from the University of Minnesota, is headed to the nation’s capital Friday.
While in Washington, D.C., they will participate in a weeklong...
Wearing bright blue sneakers and a blazer, University of Minnesota assistant professor Barry Kudrowitz discussed his favorite cartoon, “Adventure Time,” from inside his Rapson Hall office.
Littered...
A man was charged in Ramsey County District Court with shooting and killing his girlfriend while she sat in the back of an SUV with their infant son, the Star Tribune reported.
Timothy Hendricks,...
University of Minnesota-Duluth student Alyssa Lommel was found unconscious on her neighbor's porch in the frigid cold on Dec. 7, 2013, Fox 9 reported.
Lommel was found by a passerby after passing out...
The University of Minnesota’s College of Design will put its decades-old housing studies major on pause starting next year.
College administrators decided to temporarily stop admitting new students...
Members of a growing student movement at the University of Minnesota are raising issues with a lack of diversity on campus and how the institution’s leaders are dealing with it.
Whose Diversity?...
University of Minnesota students now have a new place to vent and exchange ideas.
The Echo Spot launched last week, and the website is aiming to be the students’ main platform to help solve campus...
Course materials could soon become cheaper and more accessible at the University of Minnesota.
Several University departments are testing digital course packets in 81 class sections. If the pilot program...
By the end of the month, University of Minnesota students will be able to request a campus security escort on mobile applications or online.
The new service is expected to bolster use of the security escort...
As this season’s record cold breaks, Minnesotans can expect the return of some familiar foes.
Most household pests are able to weather — even thrive — in the toughest of winters.
Insects...
The Minnesota International Student Association’s office has been a scene of organized chaos this month as members busy themselves preparing for International Student Month.
This year, the group...
The building housing the University of Minnesota’s Minnesota Aquatic Invasive Species Research Center was originally built in 1911 as a farmhouse equipment repair shop.
In the 1990s, it was renovated...
The University of Minnesota’s Engineers Without Borders program is gearing up to spend spring break in Guatemala.
Students will build improvements for irrigation systems in a small agricultural village,...
Honeybees and bumblebees may be part of the same family, but their relationship may be harmful, according to a new study.
"The spillover of parasites and pathogens and disease" from managed honeybee...
Laura Kalambokidis is so busy forecasting Minnesota’s budget that she doesn’t have time to teach her applied economics course at the University of Minnesota.
As the state economist, Kalambokidis...
In the basement of Rapson Hall, University of Minnesota assistant professor Barry Kudrowitz and his students come together three times a week to make toys.
A lime green NERF gun he designed sits on a shelf...
As state lawmakers prepare for the start of the 2014 legislative session Tuesday, a group of University of Minnesota students from the College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences is readying...
After hearing appeals from students for the University of Minnesota to halt its investments in fossil fuel companies, the Board of Regents is weighing a policy change. The new policy would require the...
In a crowd of students sitting in Nicholson Hall’s lounge, Karen Fiegen stands apart.
But it’s not her colorful shirt or her cat-eye glasses — the apparel studies senior distinguishes...
On the edge of Dinkytown at 15th and University avenues southeast, a nearly century-old building contrasts with the newer Sydney Hall apartment complex across the street.
But inside those limestone walls,...
The number of monarch butterflies hibernating in Mexico reached an all-time low last year, according to a recent study led in part by a University of Minnesota professor — compelling experts to call...
Between Fall Lake and Browns Lake near the northern Minnesota town of Ely, there’s a tract of pristine wilderness formerly owned by a University of Minnesota alum and former Chicago lawyer.
The family...
Along a row of houses in north Minneapolis’ Hawthorne EcoVillage sits a bright red house with a snow-covered roof.
Though it appears like any other house in winter, a group of University of Minnesota...
