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Minnesota Daily
April 3, 2018
The Minneapolis Police Department responded to several thefts near campus last week, while the University of Minnesota Police Department recorded few incidents of crime. MPD responded to a call of a house burglary at Phi Sigma Kappa's fraternity house early Saturday morning. The three juvenile maleÃâà...
Rick Kupchella's BringMeTheNews
April 3, 2018
A research team led by a University of Minnesota professor has discovered the farthest individual star ever seen from Earth. The discovery, published on Tuesday in the scientific journal Nature Astronomy, was made by a team headed up by University of Minnesota assistant professor of physics andÃâà...
UMN News
April 3, 2018
“This is the first time we're seeing a magnified, individual star,” explained lead researcher Patrick Kelly, a University of Minnesota assistant professor of physics and astronomy and former University of California at Berkeley postdoctoral researcher. “You can see individual galaxies out there, but this star is atÃâà...
MinnPost
April 2, 2018
University of Minnesota professor Frank M. "Doc" Whiting brought a unique type of theater entertainment to the Twin Cities with the opening of the Minnesota Centennial Showboat in 1958. For more than fifty years the showboat presented a variety of student theater productions, from melodrama to Shakespeare, in a floatingÃâà...
Minnesota Daily
April 2, 2018
Students from 26 countries face the rare experience of being the only students from their nation at the University of Minnesota. These students come from a variety of continents. There are ten from Africa, six from Europe and five from both the Americas and Asia, according to data from the Office ofÃâà...
Minnesota Public Radio News
March 21, 2018
University of Minnesota Men's Hockey head coach Don Lucia is stepping down after 19 years leading the Golden Gophers. Lucia, 59, won two national championships early in his tenure with Minnesota, but a decline in ticket sales had increased pressure for Lucia to repeat his earlier successes in order toÃâà...
Minneapolis Star Tribune
March 21, 2018
Two Jewish groups are condemning anti-Semitic fliers that appeared on the University of Minnesota's Twin Cities campus this week. The fliers, which featured Nazi-era symbols, blamed prominent Jewish politicians for attacking "our beloved 2nd Amendment." "We call on all people of goodwill to recoil atÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
March 19, 2018
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Architectural photographer and University of Minnesota adjunct faculty Christian Korab was in the middle of construction at his Twin Cities-area home studio in 2015 when he heard a knock at the door. Hammer in hand, he found two faculty union organizers on his doorstep.
UMN News
March 18, 2018
The University of Minnesota Board of Regents will hold its March meeting in Rochester to emphasize items of particular importance to the University of Minnesota Rochester (UMR) and southeastern Minnesota. The agenda will include the Board's formal introduction to UMR's newly-named Chancellor, LoriÃâà...
Middle East Monitor
March 13, 2018
Students at the University of Minnesota backed a referendum on Sunday that calls on university authorities to divest from companies complicit in Israeli violations of international law. The referendum asked whether students should urge the university to “divest from companies that are 1) complicit in IsraeliÃâà...
National Hog Farmer
March 13, 2018
Mary Jo Baarsch, Pharmgate Animal Health's vice president of Biologics, has been appointed as an adjunct professor in the University of Minnesota's Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences. A Minnesota native who grew up on a large swine operation near Spring Valley, Baarsch will bring vastÃâà...
Southernminn.com
March 13, 2018
University of Minnesota Extension, in collaboration with the Minnesota Dairy Initiative- South Central Region, will hold the concluding program of the 2018 McLeod & Sibley Counties Winter Dairy Series in an effort to bring dairy production education to the region. The 2018 “Lunch & Learn” event will beÃâà...
Minneapolis Star Tribune
March 12, 2018
Patricia Simmons' tenure on the University of Minnesota Board of Regents may not come close to matching that of John S. Pillsbury (1863-1901) or Pillsbury's son-in-law Fred B. Snyder (1912-1951). But when Simmons steps down this spring, an intention she announced last week, she will have 15 years ofÃâà...
Minneapolis Star Tribune
March 10, 2018
State legislators are debating proposals to change how members of the University of Minnesota's governing body are picked, a system critics say has sometimes favored the politically connected over the most qualified. The process has drawn fresh attention after the surprise resignation of Regent PatriciaÃâà...
UMN News
December 31, 1999
Today Regent Patricia Simmons announced her resignation from the University of Minnesota Board of Regents. "Serving the University of Minnesota has been a great privilege," said Simmons. "The University is an extraordinary institution of inestimable value to the people of Minnesota, and in fact is a greatÃâà...
