A faculty procession and a sense of change accompanied the ceremony to welcome the University of Minnesota's next president. Eric Kaler becomes the university's 16th president. He replaces Robert Bruininks who is retiring his administration post, but will return to teaching.

Incoming VP and Provost Karen Hanson brings a background in the humanities at a time when the liberal arts are under attack. University President Eric Kaler says her education will help balance his own as an engineer. Hanson has said that making the case for the humanities "will have to be made again and again."

Kaler will kick off the week touring the St. Paul and Minneapolis campuses Monday. He'll then throw out the first pitch at the Twins game later in the week before the officials ceremony on Thursday.

The university's new president, Eric Kaler, says the school will move away from a "can't do it, never done it, won't do it" mentality to "yes, let's give it a try." He spoke recently to hundreds of alumni and others at an event at the Carlson School of Management.

A psychology professor from the University of Minnesota is making waves with an article in the Sunday New York Times. L. Alan Sroufe says medicating children is a misguided approach to treating attention disorders. "Putting children on drugs does nothing to change the conditions that derail their development in the first place," he writes.

Roger Rusack, a longtime University of Minnesota physics professor, has been a part of the search for the elusive Higgs boson particle for two decades. He helped design, develop and tweak a critical particle detector within the massive, 17-mile-long Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland, the world's most powerful particle accelerator. His contribution, the electromagnetic calorimeter, measures the energies of photons.

The budget for next school year approved by the University of Minnesota Board of Regents Friday will raise undergraduate tuition by 3.5 percent and fund as many as 100 new faculty. U of M President Eric Kaler said the tuition increase was the lowest in the past 12 years at the university.

Fred Wood says Crookston has an innovative campus with technology-rich learning. He comes to Minnesota after 26 years at the University of California-Davis, where he earned degrees in chemistry before becoming an administrator.