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Getting Kids To Eat Vegetables At School: Are Pictures The Answer?

Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Journal of the American Medical Association, Video, Minnesota Schools, School Meals, Healthy School Lunches, Richfield Minnesota, School Lunches, Vegetables in Schools, Minnesota Elementary School, Healthy School Meals, Childhood Nutrition, School Lunch, Child Nutrition, Student Nutrition, University of Minnesota, Education News

Getting young children to eat their servings of fruits and veggies, particularly in school, has been a long and hard struggle for parents, schools and...

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Basketball 'Math' Tells When To Shoot, When Not

The Huffington Post | David Freeman | Posted 03.25.2012

Read More: Minnesota Timber, Sports, Video, Statistics, Utah Jazz, Probability, Mathematics, Basketball, Nba, University of Minnesota, Science News

Pass the ball? Shoot it? It’s not always easy for basketball players to tell just what to do with the ball. But a newly created mathematical model o...

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Minnesota Graduate Assistants Deserve a Voice at Work

Neal Sweeney | Posted 03.19.2012

Read More: Labor, Minnesota, Workplace, Graduate School, Work, Labor Unions, University of Minnesota, College News
Neal Sweeney

University administrators have exercised numerous opportunities to have their say against unionization; they should now let the workers' voices be heard by letting the state count the cards.

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Men Like To Impress Women With Money, Says Study/Many Pop Songs

Jessica Pearce Rotondi | Posted 03.18.2012

Read More: Sex Ratio Effects on Savings, Competition, Sex Ratio, Financial Decisions, Mating, Consumer Behavior, Carlson School of Management, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vladas-Griskevicius, Men Pay, Borrowing and Spending, The Financial Consequences of Too Many Men, University of Minnesota, Women News
Jessica Pearce Rotondi

In the tradition of "No Scrubs," "Single Ladies" and "Gold Digger," researchers have found scientific "proof" that when men compete for women, money and status are key.

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Cutting Health Care Costs Through Design

Thomas Fisher | Posted 01.18.2012

Read More: Mayo, Ezekiel Emanuel, Designer, Design, Center for Design in Health, Thomas Fisher, College of Design, Health Care, Healthcare, University of Minnesota, Health Care Costs, Health Care Reform, Politics News
Thomas Fisher

We can no longer afford bad design. In fact, the real luxury in this country has been our tolerance of so much bad design -- sloppy procedures, careless processes, and wasteful products -- that costs us way more than we can possibly sustain.

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Better Gifts, More Sex?

Posted 11.15.2011

Read More: Kathleen D. Vohs, Sex, Sexual Economics, Animal-Study, Mating, Animals, Animal Mating, Sex Study, Nursery Web Spider, Gender Roles, University of Minnesota, Women News

If you've ever felt that it is not just the thought that counts, you're not alone, according to a new study. Female spiders expect decent gifts, too. ...

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The 5 Words That Can Save A Marriage

Robert Hughes, Jr. | Posted 10.18.2011

Read More: Bruce Peterson, Minnesota Marriages on the Brink, : Reconciliation, Divorce News, Brian Willoughby, William Doherty, University of Minnesota, Divorce News
Robert Hughes, Jr.

Forty years ago the most common response to a couple who began talking about divorce was the advice--"see if you can work things out." This advice ca...

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Agriculture Colleges Get Budget Squeeze

AP | STEVE KARNOWSKI | Posted 08.27.2011

Read More: College Budget Cuts, Budgets, Agriculture Colleges, University of Minnesota, College, College News

MINNEAPOLIS — As university budgets take a beating across the country, agricultural schools and extension programs are feeling the impact. Larg...

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The 10 States Where Walmart Is King

Posted 07.23.2011

Read More: Sam Walton, Arkansas, Walmart, Louisiana, California, New Jersey, West Virginia, New Hampshire, Missouri, New York, University of Minnesota, Walmart Density, Walmart States, Business News

Walmart, the world's largest retailer and the largest company in America based on sales and employees, has tried to argue since the beginning of the r...

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Big 10 Ponders Proposal To Pay Athletes (VIDEO)

Posted 07.20.2011

Read More: Indiana University. Ohio State, University of Iowa, Video, Big Ten Athletes, College Athletics, Jim Delany, Pennsylvania State University, Big Ten, Northwestern, University of Wisconsin?Madison, University of Minnesota, Sports News

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Driver Of Car That Killed Minn. Student Charged With Murder

AP | Posted 06.25.2011

Read More: The Midwest, Ben Van Handel, Timothy Ayman Bakdash, Timothy Bakdash, University of Minnesota, College News

MINNEAPOLIS -- Police say a 29-year-old man charged in a fatal hit-and-run near the University of Minnesota told them he meant to do it. A criminal c...

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Minnesota Students Killed In Hit And Run, Biking Accident

Posted 06.22.2011

Read More: The Midwest, Van Handel Hit and Run, University of Minnesota Car Accidents, Benjamin Van Handel, Kimberly Hull, University of Minnesota, Benjamin Van Handel Dead, Kimberly Hull Dead, College News

University of Minnesota students Benjamin Van Handel and Kimberly (Audrey) Yeong Sil Hull died Thursday of injuries sustained in separate car accident...

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Minnesota Legislature Approves Drastic College Funding Cuts

Woodbury Bulletin | Posted 05.30.2011

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ST. PAUL -- Minnesota lawmakers voted to cut $300 million from college and university spending as they craft a state budget while plugging a $5 billio...

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Duking it Out in the Snow

Adam Daniels | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Snowball Fight, Winter, Snow, University of Minnesota, Winter Storm, Minneapolis, Minneapolis Metrodome Snow, Metrodome Roof Snow, College News
Adam Daniels

Now I'm not a metroeolost or anything, but I would estimate that we have had a billion inches of snow -- it was enough to collapse the Metrodome roof, after all.

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Minnesota Bioethics Faculty Ask Regents For Outside Probe Of Study Subject's Suicide

Serving the University of Minnesota Community Since 1900 | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dan Markingson Dead, Dan Markingson, University of Minnesota, Dan Markingson Suicide, Dan Markingson Death, Center of Bioethics University of Minnesota, College News

Eight professors from the Center of Bioethics sent a letter to the Board of Regents Monday requesting an investigation into the suicide of a former cl...

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University Of Minnesota Student Found Dead In Boxcar

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Keaton Patrick Murphy, Keaton Murphy Dead, Keaton Murphy Child Porn, Keaton Murphy, University of Minnesota, Keaton Murphy Found, College News

A University of Minnesota student recently arrested on charges of child porn distribution has been found dead, the Minnesota Daily reports. Keaton ...

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Winter Weather Expected to Dominate Conversations of Boring People

Andy Borowitz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Borowitz Report, Twitter, Andy Borowitz, Blizzard, Los Angeles Times, Facebook, Winter Weather, Global Warming, Davis Logsdon, Weather Channel, University of Minnesota, Comedy News
Andy Borowitz

With blizzard conditions blanketing the Northeast, a powerful front of mind-numbing weather-related banter is expected to pound the Eastern Seaboard, with statements of the obvious stretching from the Carolinas to New England.

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A Minnesota College Newspaper Editor on Israel-Hamas Conflict, from Tel Aviv

Karin Kloosterman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israel, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Palestine, Gaza Strip, Gaza, Palestinian, Israel Gaza Airstrikes, Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv University, University, College, Minnesota, Washington, Project Interchange, Reporters, University of Minnesota, World News
Karin Kloosterman

There are 6 sets of parents in America right now who might be wishing that their kids weren't college newspaper editors.

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FBI Raids Minnesota Student's, Employees' Homes

The Minnesota Daily | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tracy Molm, Mick Kelly, Minnesota, Steve Yorek, Fbi Raids, The Midwest, Students for Democratic Society, Jessica Sundin, University of Minnesota, Fbi, College News

The FBI raided six Twin Cities addresses on Friday morning, including the homes of at least one student and two University of Minnesota employees. ...

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The Origins of The Humble Mascot

Lee Woodruff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: University of Minnesota, College Mascots, Mascot Origins, Golden Gophers, University Macots, College News
Lee Woodruff

It wasn't until I recently spoke at the University of Minnesota, home of the Golden Gophers, that an observation about the Midwest suddenly jumped to the forefront of my brain.

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The Troubled Waters of Big Ag's Academic Influence

Paula Crossfield | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Troubled Waters, University, Research, Water Pollution, Dead Zone, Agriculture, Film, University of Minnesota, Green News
Paula Crossfield

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Resolved: Eating Animals Is Indefensible

Bruce Friedrich | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The New Yorker, Paul McCartney, University of Texas, University of Florida, Alec Baldwin, Darwin, Vegetarianism, Byu, Cornell, Yale, Harvard, Boston College, Richard Dawkins, Princeton, Michael Specter, University of Georgia, University of Minnesota, College News
Bruce Friedrich

I've been spending a lot of time discussing the ethics of eating animals with college debate teams; I argue that vegetarianism is an ethical imperative, and my adversaries argue that it's not.

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Colleges Not Doing Enough To Curb Student Alcohol Abuse: Report

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New York Times, USA Today, Toben Nelson, Binge Drinking, Jeffrey S. DeSimone, The Midwest, U.S. National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, University of Minnesota, College Drinking, College Alcohol Abuse, College Students Drinking, College Students Binge Drinking, College News

It's no secret that college kids drink. Still, a recent study has found that few universities are doing much to combat excessive alcohol use. Accordi...

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Al Franken Condemns Facebook

Minnesota Daily | Posted 05.25.2011

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U.S. Sen. Al Franken is no "friend" of Facebook. The Minnesota Democrat joined three other senators Tuesday to condemn a recent policy change by the ...

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University Of Minnesota To Offer Course On Gulf Oil Spill

The Minnesota Daily | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gulf Oil Spill Course, University of Minnesota Gulf Oil Spill Course, Gulf Oil Spill, Oil Spill, The Midwest, University of Minnesota, College News

Oil and water don’t mix. That is, unless they are coming together in a class dubbed “Oil and Water: The Gulf Oil Spill of 2010,” a joint vent...

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