YOUR GUIDE TO THE TWIN CITIES
The board member's new job with state Senate has stirred a fresh round of challenges over the potential for conflict of interest.
Updated: February 09, 2012, - 09:01 PM
Eric Kaler and other presidents have had access to little-known fund since 2000.
Updated: February 09, 2012, - 11:33 AM
Alf R. Larson's World War II story was nearly never told. For 55 years, he hid the horrors he experienced during the Bataan Death March and 41 months as a POW.
Updated: February 04, 2012, - 07:34 PM
The new University of Minnesota president touts his connections with the place. But in a dozen ways, his new second-in-command has him beat.
Updated: February 01, 2012, - 07:19 PM
In his first foray into a Minnesota legislative session, new University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler pushed for building projects and promised to improve the relationship between "the state's only research university" and those who control a shrinking part of its budget.
Updated: January 28, 2012, - 12:12 AM
It looks like it might be a quiet legislative session for higher education.
Updated: January 25, 2012, - 05:21 PM
On Tuesday morning, a group of graduate students hand-delivered a letter to the University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler, asking him to voluntarily recognize a graduate assistants union. At the same time, another group filed for a union election at a state office in St. Paul.
Updated: January 18, 2012, - 11:09 PM
U researchers' work with yeast grabs national attention.
Updated: January 17, 2012, - 09:56 PM
The president is seen as affable and thoughtful, but can he wangle big bucks from the Legislature?
Updated: January 16, 2012, - 08:44 AM
Eleven colleges and universities scattered through northern Minnesota are teaming up.
Updated: January 11, 2012, - 07:58 PM
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