Saturday night, sports fans filling the new TCF Bank Stadium at the University of Minnesota can enjoy some good old-fashioned logo-spotting the way it was meant to be — back on campus and under the stars. You can help Goldy…
As University of Minnesota bioethicist and torture expert Dr. Steven Miles was researching the deaths of detainees in U.S. custody, he noticed something strange. Although the Department of Defense had in the past issued press releases when detainees died at U.S.-run prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan, at some point in 2006, he says, the “entire prisoner death reporting system was turned off in Afghanistan.” Although at that time deaths in Iraq were still being reported, he says, that system was “turned off” at the beginning of 2008.
The University of Minnesota’s Stem Cell Institute is facing scrutiny for the second time in a year over allegations of falsified data in research reports. The New Scientist identified the suspect research in April, prompting the University to launch…
University of Minnesota sporting events will now be dry affairs. The university’s Board of Regents passed a prohibition on booze at this morning’s meeting. There were two dissenting votes.
For state college administrators, the announcement of the Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s unallotment plans was a good news/bad news story. The size of the budgetary hit was not as big as they expected. But, it’s still a substantial amount. The state’s two higher-education systems — which comprise 32 colleges and state universities, plus the four University of Minnesota campuses outside the Twin Cities — will each take a hit of $50 million dollars, or about a 3.6 percent drop.
Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life, the state’s largest anti-abortion group, says the University of Minnesota is trying to clone human beings and is in violation of the law. The university says its research is legal and that the group is…
Maureen Reed, a former Independence Party candidate for Lt. Governor, is going to challenge Rep. Michele Bachmann, according to the blog Liberal in the Land of Conservative. In 2006 she…
“A very specific threat of violence” has led authorities to close three buildings on the University of Minnesota’s West Bank Minneapolis campus. The threat targeted the Carlson School of Management, Hanson Hall and the Hubert H. Humphrey Center, according…
On CNN Monday, New Yorker reporter Seymour Hersh elaborated about claims he first made public March 10 at the University of Minnesota about a U.S. military “executive assassination wing” (or “ring”) called the “Joint Special Operations Command”…
Tony Dungy, best known for winning Super Bowl XLI as coach for the Indianapolis Colts, is rumored to be a top pick for the White House Advisory Council on Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships. Dungy has been controversial for his…
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