A summer visit to the U
Summer is a splendid time to visit the U's Twin Cities campus. Here are a few suggestions to help round out your visit.

Greener pastures
St. Paul isn't the only place where U students can ride and research horses. The Crookston campus offers a bachelor's degree in equine industries management (EIM), which prepares students for careers in breeding, racing, and stable management.

Horse sense
A proposal for a new U Equine Center would concentrate horse experts in one state-of-the-art facility.

Choose whole grains and live longer
When it comes to eating well to prevent disease, University of Minnesota research has been leading the way for decades. Lately, advice from U researchers to eat more whole grains (along with more fruits and vegetables) is getting a lot of attention.

Elucidating summer evenings on the Showboat
Have your hearts and minds opened by instructors from the College of Continuing Education's Split Rock Arts Program on the Minnesota Centennial Showboat, moored at St. Paul's picturesque Harriet Island.

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Fellowship supports new degree in health journalism
The Marsha Ellen May Sternberg fellowship establishes a new one-year master's degree program for students in health journalism.

Eat together
According to University of Minnesota research, eating together as a family does make a difference.

Maroon and Gold Day at the fair
Join alumni and supporters of the University from all over the Upper Midwest at Minnesota State Fair Sunday, August 24, for the fourth annual Maroon and Gold Day celebration.

New degrees of excellence
More than 11,000 Faculty and staff give to Campaign Minnesota

Campaign news: Alumni contributing to campaign success
Campaign Minnesota began in 1996 as a defining moment in the U's future. Today, just weeks shy of the campaign's June 30 end date, it's safe to say that the defining taking place is of historic proportions.

Class acts
Leah Curney, Santino Fontana, and Ryan Lindberg played unloved and unlovable, spoiled, lost, and angry twentysomethings in the Minneapolis Guthrie Theater's recent production of Six Degrees of Separation.

U of M opens neighborhood clinic to provide health care to the uninsured
In March, the University opened the Phillips Neighborhood Clinic in one of the poorest areas in Minneapolis with an all-volunteer staff and mostly donated equipment.

Do you still need your 11-year-old to download your digital photos?
Try Tech Talk. It's better than an operating manual and you don't even have to read it.

Facing the challenges
The University and several neighborhood early childhood programs collaborated to create Baby's Space, a groundbreaking program providing infant and toddler care and family support services to parents in one of the most economically distressed neighborhoods in Minneapolis.

Mouse tracks, spring 2003
An ongoing selection of some of the University's best Web sites.

Abuzz with bee research
Spivak's research, supported in part by gifts from alumni and other donors, is no less intriguing. She's working on controlling diseases and the parasitic mite Varroa destructor, which are killing honeybees worldwide in record numbers.

Philanthropy: a critical niche, not a substitute for state support
Private giving is a critical component of the University's overall funding mix, but it cannot replace state support.

Letters to the editor, spring 2003
The quotation "All the world's a stage..." is from Shakespeare's As You Like It, Act II, scene vii.

One good gift deserves three others
3M Matching Grant provides scholarships to top undergraduates

Using aspirin to reduce the risk of colon cancer
A daily dose of aspirin can be effective in reducing the risk of colon adenomas, the benign tumors that can develop into cancer if left in the bowel.

Better Than Well
For every reason to dislike yourself--"I hate my nose, sex, hair, voice, life"--there are an equal number of ways to fix what's wrong. Mood-altering drugs. Breast implants. Wrinkle-be-gone Botox injections. The biggest growth industry in health care isn't in actually healing people, but in improving people.

To your health!
Evidence connects wine and other alcoholic beverages to good health.

Smaller communities: the freshman seminar
This freshman seminar and dozens like it transform the nearly 50,000-student University into smaller communities, making the first year at the University less overwhelming.

Harvey Mackay returns to headline alumni celebration
Unfortunately, an attack of kidney stones prevented Mackay from being the headliner that night, but he'll get another chance on May 29, 2003, when the UMAA's Annual Celebration marks the opening of a year of centennial activities.

Help complete our history
As the alumni association turns 100, our thoughts turn to the past--and to a few holes in our historical record.

Share your memorable connections
To mark the University of Minnesota Alumni Association's 100th anniversary, the UMAA is asking alumni to share how they make the University of Minnesota connection. For many, it's through Gopher football. Below are some memories and comments gleaned from dozens of e-mails and letters sent to the association.

Split Rock offers creative getaway
The 20-year-old Split Rock Arts Program is a series of weeklong residential workshops led by practicing artists who focus on specific aspects of an art form. Sessions are held on both the University's Duluth campus and at the Cloquet Forestry Center. Among the 38 offerings this summer are workshops on memoir writing, textile arts, wicker basketry, and Drawing for the Truly Terrified. University of Minnesota Alumni Association members like Tyler get a 10 percent discount on course fees. "That was a nice added benefit," she says.

Transforming the freshman experience
For today's exercise in reminiscing, pick a decade, any decade--'70s, '80s, or early '90s. Close your eyes and think of a Bee Gees or Duran Duran song if that will help you float away to a different era.