A law meant to improve safety for meatpacking workers has failed and conditions in many plants have actually gotten worse.
A magazine production class in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication chose to focus their magazine on exploring and interpreting what the American Dream means to the millennial generation.
Narayana Kocherlakota leaves academia behind in order to put his theories to work as president of the Minneapolis Fed.
On January 7, Islamic intellectual history professor Iraj Bashiri will discuss what history reveals about a way forward in Afghanistan for CCE's Headliners speaker series.
The Republic of Austria has awarded Gary B. Cohen, Professor of History and Director of the Center for Austrian Studies its Medal of Honor for Science and Art, First Class.
A student's account of meeting economics Nobel laureates with differing views.
Personality characteristics play a major role in determining who succeeds in medical school, according to new research in a study co-authored by University of Minnesota psychology professor Deniz Ones
The University of Minnesota School of Music recently announced that the winning work of the 2009 Craig and Janet Swan Composer Prize is "Prophecies" by Jonathan Kolm. This work will be premiered by the university's Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Mark Russell Smith at Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2009 in Ted Mann Concert Hall.
U of M media expert Nora Paul to speak about future for news organizations as part of the College of Continuing Education's "Headliners" series on December 3.
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