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Univ. of Minnesota Wins Solar Car Race
Original at FOX 9 News
• Mon, Jun 8
With clouds filling the skies back home, the University of Minnesota Solar Vehicle Project team finishes in first place this past weekend at the ... www.myfoxtwincities.com
Gopher Golf Names Ernie Rose Assistant Coach
Original at Gophersports.com
• Fri, Jun 5
The University of Minnesota golf program named Windsong Farm's Director of Instruction Ernie Rose as an assistant coach. www.gophersports.com
Disgrace To My StateOriginal at buzznet.com
• Mon, Jun 1
the video of the 180 ft. hockey goal. University of Minnesota Gophers vs. University of North Dakota Fighting Sioux... appalling, shocking ... www.buzznet.com
U of M finds new cancer genes with its Sleeping Beauty methodOriginal at it.truveo.com
• Sat, May 23
Scientists at the University of Minnesota have discovered 32 new genes linked to cancer thanks to a technique developed at the university called ... it.truveo.com
An End of an Era; Barn Floor Construction Begins
Original at Gophersports.com
• Tue, May 19
Construction at Williams Arena has begun, as the University of Minnesota is replacing the 81-year old Barn floor. www.gophersports.com
Emily Fox Starts Lynx Training Camp
Original at Gophersports.com
• Tue, May 19
Former University of Minnesota basketball player Emily Fox, a rookie with the Minnesota Lynx, will write an occasional diary for the Pioneer Press ... www.gophersports.com
Boys golf to seventh at Tri-State tournament
Original at Alexandria Echo Press
• Tue, Apr 21
MN Some of the best schools from Minnesota, North Dakota and Wisconsin took part in the two-day tournament at the University of Minnesota Golf Course. Casey Vangsness took another step toward asserting himself as one of the top golfers in the area with a ...
Landlords, others in Marcy Holmes consult lawyers
Original at Minnesota Daily
• Tue, Apr 21
MN “There are so few [homeowners] if you look at that map,” Stan Masoner , University of Minnesota alumna and one of the organization's Greek representatives, said of the Marcy side of the neighborhood, “and it's changing daily. ...
A new ranking system
Original at Minnesota Daily
• Tue, Apr 21
MN The website will do what higher education institutions have failed to do by providing the most basic information on academics, extracurricular activities, and much more to potential students. The University of Minnesota and every other college and ...
Student overdoses on prescription meds
Original at Minnesota Daily
• Tue, Apr 21
MN The woman had to be subdued by the man to keep her from running away before police arrived, University of Minnesota police Deputy Chief Chuck Miner said. One witness described the woman as “acting crazy.” “There were definitely some anger issues on the ...
Consumer confidence murky amid up and down economy
Original at Minnesota Public Radio
• Tue, Apr 21
MN That's according to Joe Redden, a consumer behavior expert at the University of Minnesota. Redden said we're biologically wired to pay more attention to the negative news that might threaten us. And once we're convinced of a threat, we are not easily ...
Minnesota statewide news and notes
Original at Agri News
• Tue, Apr 21
MN PAUL -- The University of Minnesota Swine Extension Team, in partnership with the Minnesota Pork Board, is offering multiple training and certification courses for both Pork Quality Assurance Plus and Transport Quality Assurance throughout the state. ...
Swede Johnson will be honored at Minnesota FFA Convention
Original at Agri News
• Tue, Apr 21
MN He attended the University of Minnesota and majored in agronomy and minored in animal science. Johnson sought a master's degree, but never finished the requirements. "I got married and felt I should probably get a job instead," Johnson said. ...
More women apply to donate eggs
Original at Minnesota Daily
• Mon, Apr 20
MN That's because Katie, a University of Minnesota advertising junior who is not being fully named out of respect for the privacy of her sexual health, has anonymously donated her eggs four times for in vitro fertilization. “A lot of times I just wish I ...
Gehrz named state photographer of the year
Original at Minneapolis Star Tribune
• Sun, Apr 19
MN The Star Tribune's Jim Gehrz won Photographer of the Year in the annual Minnesota News Photographers Association contest, judged over the weekend at the University of Minnesota. The Star Tribune's Jim Gehrz won Photographer of the Year in the annual ...
Teaching assistants and English skills
Original at Minnesota Daily
• Sun, Apr 19
MN That's why the University of Minnesota sponsors a program of assessment for prospective international teaching assistants and sets a higher spoken language score than many of our peer institutions. It's also why we offer two-credit classroom ...
Senate passes higher education funding bill
Original at Coon Rapids ECM Publishers
• Fri, Apr 17
MN The Senate bill softens its budget cuts to Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU) and the University of Minnesota with the use of $148 million in federal stimulus dollars. Under this arrangement, MnSCU would see a three percent cut in ...
Vikings' Robison takes his best shot
Original at Minneapolis Star Tribune
• Fri, Apr 17
MN He wanted a place to throw when he got to Minnesota, so he contacted Mario Sategna, his college coach and a former University of Minnesota track coach. Sategna put him in touch with Gophers first-year assistant Lynden Reder, who was an All-America ...
Candidates to vie for Ward 2 endorsements Saturday
Original at Minnesota Daily
• Fri, Apr 17
MN At the Ward 2 Convention in Matthews Park, residents can gather to watch as parties endorse candidates for the November elections that will seat a councilmember in the ward that represents much of the University of Minnesota community. ...
Reception Monday for senior art exhibit
Original at Post-Bulletin
• Fri, Apr 17
MN Welch, who turns 50 in a few months, has been attending classes at the University of Minnesota Rochester campus and will receive a bachelor's degree in fine arts in digital arts and photography. Her exhibit runs through April 24.
Economy seen behind shifts in college application numbers
Original at Minnesota Public Radio
• Fri, Apr 17
MN There are seats for only 5350 students in this fall's freshman class at the University of Minnesota. Applicants however, far exceed that number. "The Twin Cities campus has received more than 33000 applications for fall 2009," according to Wayne Sigler ...
Quiz them; Cloquet students know a lot about the economy
Original at Duluth News Tribune
• Thu, Apr 16
MN “It's insane how much information they know,” Laura Newton, a coordinator of the Minnesota State Economics Challenge, said of Cloquet's winning team in the Wednesday competition at the University of Minnesota in the Twin Cities. ...
Women wait to report rape pondering confusion, consequences
Original at Minnesota Daily
• Wed, Apr 15
MN BY Elizabeth Sias In the first reported rape on campus since September last year, a 19-year-old University of Minnesota student reported on April 6 that she was raped in Sanford Hall on Jan. 17. University police Deputy Chief Chuck Miner said the ...
Lee Jess: Lynch's plan is bad for patients
Original at Minneapolis Star Tribune
• Wed, Apr 15
MN First, the educational element: The University of Minnesota School of Dentistry is the only institution in the entire state accredited to teach surgical dental procedures. Allowing this position to be trained at any other school in Minnesota does a ...
Students reach out through La Escuelita
Original at Minnesota Daily
• Wed, Apr 15
MN BY Taryn Wobbema University of Minnesota students Natasha Villanueva and Marina Lillehei sat alone at a cafeteria table in El Colegio Charter School — a Spanish and English speaking school in south Minneapolis — as students trickled into the room. ...
With floods comes risk of water contamination
Original at Minnesota Daily
• Tue, Apr 14
MN Contamination of drinking water after a flood is “very much a threat to public health,” especially to people who draw their water from private wells, said Barbara Liukkonen , a coordinator at the University of Minnesota’s Water Resources Center. ...
Nick and Tara Meyer are Good Farm Neighbors
Original at Agri News
• Tue, Apr 14
MN They married in 2007. Tara is a University of Minnesota graduate who grew up on her family's dairy and hog operation near Faribault. She works for the Minnesota Farm and Food Coalition and is in charge the farm's calves and bookwork. ...
Spanish-speaking homeowners hit hard in foreclosure crisis
Original at Minnesota Public Radio
• Tue, Apr 14
MN by Jessica Mador, Minnesota Public Radio Until now, there hasn't been much solid data on who in Minnesota has lost homes to foreclosure. A recent University of Minnesota study finds the majority of owner-occupied foreclosures in Minneapolis involved ...
Opinion: Measuring Corn Ethanol's Thirst for Water
Original at MIT Technology Review
• Mon, Apr 13
Prior studies have estimated, based on national production averages, that one liter of corn-derived ethanol should require 263 to 784 liters of water to both grow the crop and convert it into fuel. Now, researchers at the University of Minnesota have ...
The importance of funding higher education
Original at Minneapolis Star Tribune
• Mon, Apr 13
MN While private colleges, like Bethel University that I attend, have higher tuitions than most state schools, it was actually cheaper for me to go to Bethel than the University of Minnesota because of the amount of financial aid I received through state ...
MINNESOTA NEWS: U of M stadium fund ... Tainted U of M water ...
Original at grandforksherald.com
• Sun, Apr 12
More than 2000 private residents have donated a total of $81.5 million to help build the new Gopher football stadium at the University of Minnesota. University athletics officials need to raise another $4.5 million in order to reach their private ...
MSA: a voice of the students
Original at Minnesota Daily
• Sun, Apr 12
MN KSTP-TV News and Minnesota Public Radio also covered us. The University of Minnesota coordinate campuses adopted the resolution, as did the Student Senate. Gov. Tim Pawlenty also considered it in writing his State of the State speech in January. ...
Med students see physicians’ crisis first-hand
Original at Minnesota Daily
• Sun, Apr 12
MN While most of Olsen’s classmates, third-year medical students at the University of Minnesota, may observe or assist on deliveries, Olsen’s preceptor at the Owatonna Clinic lets him fly solo. According to a report made to the Legislature in January, ...
'U' is first to utilize new financial tool
Original at KSAX
• Fri, Apr 10
The University of Minnesota will cut its borrowing costs by utilizing a new financial tool created by the economic stimulus package. According to university officials, the 'U' will become the first university in the nation to issue Build America Bonds. ...
University of Minnesota to be first university in nation to use ...
Original at UMN
• Fri, Apr 10
PAUL (04/10/2009) — The University of Minnesota is the first university in the nation to use a new financial mechanism that will save the university money as it borrows for capital projects. The new tool came about from the nation’s economic stimulus ...
Local stimulus proposals in Minnesota Legislature
Original at Bemidji Pioneer
• Fri, Apr 10
3 million to develop a solar rating and certification laboratory at the University of Minnesota at Morris. Rummel and Sailer. _$2.5 million for the South Washington County school district to build a center for the arts. Sen. ... Minnesota politicians try to bring stimulus home Pioneer Press
Busch and Payton to Forgo Senior Seasons
Original at Gophersports.com
• Fri, Apr 10
“We are grateful for what Travis and Kevin brought to the University of Minnesota during their time on campus,” Tubby Smith said. “We are proud that both will leave the university with a degree and wish them the best of luck in their life after college ...
Klobuchar, Minnesota’s solo senator, stays busy and popular
Original at Minnesota Independent
• Thu, Apr 9
Amy Klobuchar gets more plaudits in today’s New York Times for soldiering on as Minnesota’s sole senator. And she’s staying popular as she stays busy — though that isn’t quite good enough for one University of Minnesota political-science blog. ...
Steve Cannon dead at 81
Original at rbr.com
• Tue, Apr 7
FOX 9 News Virginia The St. Paul Pioneer Press reported that he also did play-by-play for University of Minnesota men’s hockey and color commentary for the Minnesota North Stars. Cannon retired in 1997 after 47 years in radio, the last 26 at WCCO. ...
COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR EMERITUS RECEIVES TOP JAPANESE ... - Colorado State University
Original at newsinfo.colostate.edu
• Mon, Apr 6
Matsushima also taught at the University of Nebraska and University of Minnesota. "I never dreamed that I would receive such an award," said Matsushima. "My parents taught us early in life that with our Japanese heritage we should remember three words: ...
Wausau East grad Jay Birkholz jokes his way into national competition
Original at Wausau Daily Herald
• Fri, Apr 3
WI Birkholz, 18, a freshman biology major at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, was one of four Blugolds selected to compete against a team from the University of Minnesota. Should the Eau Claire comedians win, they'll go on to compete in another ...
Lawmakers consider new way to redistrict
Original at Bemidji Pioneer
• Thu, Apr 2
MN The task falls to the courts when lawmakers can’t draw the maps. Karrah Anderson is a University of Minnesota journalism student who writes stories for the Minnesota Capitol Bureau, part of Forum Communications Co. which also owns the Bemidji Pioneer.
Fargo divides day between church, city's salvationOriginal at google.com
• Sun, Mar 29
The place is so flat," said John Gulliver, a professor of civil engineering at the University of Minnesota. "It is totally flat, so there's really no place for the water to go because it can't leave that quickly. So it just keeps backing up like a ...
Nun study on Alzheimer's returns to the U
Original at MinnPost.com
• Thu, Mar 26
Around 600 sisters, many of them from Mankato, volunteered their brains to be used after death in a study conducted by the University of Minnesota. The study recently returned to Minnesota after having moved to the University of Kentucky. ...
NW Minnesota Flood Update: Bridge over Red in Oslo remains open
Original at grandforksherald.com
• Thu, Mar 26
ND The shelter at University of Minnesota-Crookston has been closed, but the equipment and necessary supplies will remain in place and can be reactivated in a short period of time if necessary. If anyone does need temporary shelter, please contact the ...
Activists accuse University of Minnesota’s dance department of racism
Original at College
• Tue, Mar 24
The walls of the University of Minnesota’s dance program building are smothered in provocative messages that are a part of the six week-long protest known as “THIS.” Anonymous protesters are concerned that conversations dealing with institutional ...
Inventor of G-Suit Dies - PR Newswire
Original at press release
• Mon, Mar 23
PR Newswire (press release), NY A 1934 graduate of Macalester College, he also earned an additional bachelor's degree, master's degree, as well as Ph.D. and MD degrees from the University of Minnesota. After serving as a National Research Council fellow at the University of ...
Gophers Open Big Ten Play With 6-0 Win at Indiana
Original at Gophersports.com
• Sat, Mar 21
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – The University of Minnesota softball team opened Big Ten play on Saturday afternoon with a 6-0 win at Indiana University. The Golden Gophers (18-18, 1-0) jumped out to a 4-0 lead in the third inning. With one out, senior third ...
Corry's Zaleski earns D-III swimming title
Original at GoErie.com
• Fri, Mar 20
Denison University Athletics PA Women's Swimming: Zaleski wins 100 backstroke title; Big Red move ... Denison University Athletics Men's Swimming: Relay team wins 4th straight title; team remains ... Denison University Athletics
STALOCK SAVES THE DAY FOR BULLDOGS IN 2-1 VICTORY OVER MINNESOTA ...
Original at UMD Bulldogs
• Thu, Mar 19
College Hockey News MN The junior goaltender made 39 saves -- equalling a season-high -- in backstopping the University of Minnesota Duluth to a 2-1 victory over its arch rival, the University of Minnesota in the opening game of the Red Baron WCHA Final Five, before a crowd ...