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Everything isn’t as bad as it seems at UND’s Chester Fritz Library, according to university officials. The library’s base budget will remain intact for now, contrary to multiple reports, but the library will definitely lose $300,000 in funds they’ve been privy to for the...

UND scientists to study link between obesity, Alzheimer's UND professors Colin Combs and Mikhail Golovko recently won a $1.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the relationship between Alzheimer's and obesity. They will try to determine whether the link...

DICKINSON, N.D. -- Dickinson State University staff rated the institution the lowest it has in the past eight years in a quality survey released to The Dickinson Press on Thursday. But, 70 percent of respondents reported being satisfied or very satisfied. "All of this information...

MOORHEAD -- Minnesota State University Moorhead is offering faculty another round of early retirement incentives in preparation for an estimated $7.5 million cut in state funding. President Edna Szymanski said some faculty will be replaced with new hires, but some positions will...

Lake Region State College will have some arm twisting to do in the North Dakota Legislature if officials hope to get $4.85 million to expand and remodel the 40-year-old Erlandson Technical Center to accommodate the Devils Lake school's popular nursing and wind energy technician programs. Meanwhile,...

MINNEAPOLIS -- A professor at the University of Minnesota asked her students to turn off their iPods, cell phones and laptops and turn on the eight-track players, landlines and typewriters. Last month, Heather LaMarre, assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication,...

UND Student Senate has adopted a resolution urging the State Board of Higher Education to give due consideration to any vote on the matter that may take place at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation by Nov.