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Earth Day: 13 Things Everyone Can Do in 2013

Danielle Nierenberg | Posted 04.19.2013 | Green
Danielle Nierenberg

Being aware of the environmental costs that unsustainable farming and eating practices can have on the environment, and making food choices accordingly, can help to fight climate change and protect the environment.

Hiring Spree Fattens College Bureaucracy And Tuition

Wall Street Journal | Posted 12.31.2012 | College

MINNEAPOLIS—When Eric Kaler became president of the University of Minnesota last year, he pledged to curb soaring tuition by cutting administrative ...

Faculty, Students Take Issue With Excessive College Administrator Pay Amid Tuition Crisis

Posted 11.14.2012 | Home

A 2010 study by University of Arkansas education professor Jay Greene found that spending on administration has been outpacing funds for instruction a...

An Education in Creative Courage

Thomas Fisher | Posted 12.02.2012 | Home
Thomas Fisher

See the WWW Conference as an educational wake-up call. School should be about equipping students not just with the skills, but also with the self-confidence to pursue their passions, regardless of what others may think.

The Richest Public Universities (SLIDESHOW)

Posted 07.10.2012 | College

The University of Texas is rich. The economy may not be booming, but the UT school system's Permanent University Fund continues to grow, making it ...

The Professor Behind 'The Amazing Spiderman'

The Huffington Post | Anna Susman | Posted 07.02.2012 | College

Though superheroes are not real, the science behind their powers may be. James Kakalios, a physics professor at the University of Minnesota, has b...

They're Paving Paradise

Thomas Fisher | Posted 08.14.2012 | Home
Thomas Fisher

The old Joni Mitchell line, "You don't know what you've got till it's gone" applies to public higher education these days. Most states have dramatically cut financial support of their research universities.

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

Posted 04.02.2012 | Home

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...

Basketball 'Math' Tells When To Shoot, When Not

The Huffington Post | David Freeman | Posted 03.25.2012 | Science

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...

Minnesota Graduate Assistants Deserve a Voice at Work

Neal Sweeney | Posted 03.19.2012 | College
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.

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

Jessica Pearce Rotondi | Posted 03.18.2012 | Women
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.

Cutting Health Care Costs Through Design

Thomas Fisher | Posted 01.18.2012 | Politics
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.

Better Gifts, More Sex?

Posted 11.15.2011 | Women

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. ...

The 5 Words That Can Save A Marriage

Robert Hughes, Jr. | Posted 10.18.2011 | Divorce
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...

Agriculture Colleges Get Budget Squeeze

AP | STEVE KARNOWSKI | Posted 08.27.2011 | College

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

The 10 States Where Walmart Is King

Posted 07.23.2011 | Business

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...

Big 10 Ponders Proposal To Pay Athletes (VIDEO)

Posted 07.20.2011 | Sports

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Driver Of Car That Killed Minn. Student Charged With Murder

AP | Posted 06.25.2011 | College

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...

Minnesota Students Killed In Hit And Run, Biking Accident

Posted 06.22.2011 | College

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

Minnesota Legislature Approves Drastic College Funding Cuts

Woodbury Bulletin | Posted 05.30.2011 | College

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...

Duking it Out in the Snow

Adam Daniels | Posted 05.25.2011 | College
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.

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 | College

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...

University Of Minnesota Student Found Dead In Boxcar

Posted 05.25.2011 | College

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

Winter Weather Expected to Dominate Conversations of Boring People

Andy Borowitz | Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy
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.

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

Karin Kloosterman | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Karin Kloosterman

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