Answering the call: In pursuit of work that matters
You don't have to just dream about a career that's satisfying and meaningful. Self-exploration, professional guidance, and old-fashioned research and footwork can help you discover what you love and how to make it part of your life.

October is Scholarship Month
President Bob Bruininks has declared October as Scholarship Month at the U. This announcement follows last year's launch of the largest scholarship drive in the U's history-the University of Minnesota Scholarship Drive: Promise of Tomorrow.

Class of 2008: M follows two students as they navigate the first-year experience
M will be following two students from the Class of 2008--LynAnne Evenson and Alex Moss. You'll hear about the ups and downs, triumphs and travails, of their freshman year at the U.

Balancing act: U program prepares Hmong community for bicultural parenting
The challenges of bicultural parenting will hit the estimated 5,000 new Hmong immigrants arriving from a refugee camp in Thailand. But unlike families before them, they won't have to deal with the challenges alone.

Twist of fate: Research explores ACL injuries in female athletes
ACL (anterior cruciate ligament) injuries in female athletes seem to have reached epidemic proportions, with women suffering significantly more noncontact ACL injuries as men in soccer and basketball. U researcher Elizabeth Arendt has been looking for reasons why women are more susceptible to this knee injury.

Seeking a cup of the cold-hardy: U enology project helps develop good, native wines
The U's grape breeding program strives to combine the good taste of classic varietals and the cold-hardiness of northern types to produce first-rate Minnesota wines.

Letters to the Editor, fall 2004
Letters received in response to M, summer 2004

Get connected
Hear U experts appearing around the state, participate in Mentor Connection, attend Fall Fest for Homecoming, and get a discount on arboretum membership.

From the pages of history
A fire in Old Main, the best football tickets, the Cold War, and a delegation to China all span a century of U history.

Sixty years later, a hero's reception
Alumnus Mike Welch (B.A. 1943) saved several lives during the World War II D-Day invasion. On June 6, 2004, he and five fellow crewmen held a reunion and were honored at Wrigley Field in Chicago.

Electric exchanges: Great Conversations 2004-05 season
The fourth season of Great Conversations features dialogues on women's sports, the world's perspective on the United States, gender and race in medical treatment, design in everyday life, and the future of southern Africa.

Faster Development
Grateful for her college scholarship, UMD alumna Janet Jasper created an endowment fund to help senior accounting students pay their tuition bills.

Scholarships provide a world of opportunity
University scholarships have allowed U junior Rachel Jamison to participate in extracurricular activities while triple majoring in women's studies, global studies, and history.

UMD alumni give back
UMD alumnus and hockey star Bill Watson is helping his alma mater raise $500,000 for UMD's first endowed hockey scholarship.

Pay it forward: Alum helps fill need for future generations
In 1958, a $300 scholarship influenced Bruce Benson's decision to go to the U. Today, some students can choose to pursue their education at the U thanks to a scholarship fund established by Benson.

Alumni pool gifts to qualify for match
When 2007 comes around, three 1957 grads of the College of Natural Resources hope to have raised $50,000 for a University of Minnesota student scholarship fund. The group is currently canvassing support from their former classmates.

Keeping our food safe
It's 1 a.m., and you've got the munchies. Do you know where those potato chips have been? Reducing the risk of deliberate contamination is the goal of the new National Center for Food Protection and Defense, headquartered at the University of Minnesota.

Book reviews fall 2004
We highlight three books by people with connections to the University of Minnesota--A Measure of Endurance, a riveting personal and legal case history by William Mishler; Grass Angel, a novel for young readers by Julie Schumacher; and Life and Death in a Small Southern Town, a biography of place by Gayle Graham Yates.

Mane squeeze: Lady lions prefer males with long, dark hair
University of Minnesota researchers have found that good hair for male lions--in this case, a long, dark mane--serves to intimidate other male lions and attract female lions at the same time.

Take back the pleasure: Five ways to recapture the joy of eating
In the days before the obesity epidemic in America, we once ate healthy. Eating was a pleasure--and not a guilty one. A University professor tells us five ways Americans could recapture the pleasures of food and good health.

Dinnertime: Nourishing and nurturing
U of M research has found that adolescents who regularly have dinner with their families have lower risk of drug use, suicidal thoughts, and unhealthy sexual behavior.

Forget reaching for those toes; increase your heart rate instead
New research shows that stretching may not necessarily help prevent injuries, and it may actually contribute to them. Incorporating cardiovascular exercise into your routine may be the better bet.

Humphrey Survey: The Upper Midwest battleground
The Center for the Study of Politics released the first survey of the 2005 presidential campaign in the Upper Midwest, a battleground for this year's election containing the critical swing states of Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin.