2011 – 2012 UVU club achievements

April 23, 2012

Reading Time: 2 minutes  Bass fishing club won national tournament at Lake Havasu. Just a few months after becoming an official club on campus, the UVU Bass Fishing Team won the National Guard FLW College Fishing Western Conference event on Lake Havasu. Read more.     Kappa Sigma was chartered. The Rho Phi chapter of Kappa Sigma received their charter […]

UVU Class of 2012

April 23, 2012

Reading Time: 58 minutes Alphabetical by School – Degree – Last Name Associate Degrees   (H) Honors (O) High Honors Bachelor Degrees  (C) Cum Laude (M) Magna Cum Laude (S) Summa Cum Laude Colleges College of Humanities and Social Sciences – Associate in Arts College of Humanities and Social Sciences – Associate in Science College of Humanities and Social Sciences […]

Earthquake DRILL (Great Utah ShakeOut)

April 16, 2012

Reading Time: < 1 minute   Tuesday, April 17 Time:  10:15 AM – 10:20 AM   UVU will participate in a statewide earthquake drill (Great Utah ShakeOut) Tuesday, April 17. All faculty, staff, students and visitors are asked to participate in the drill. Fire alarms simulating the earthquake will sound at 10:15 a.m. for one minute during which time all […]

Graffiti artist problems at UVU

April 16, 2012

Reading Time: 2 minutes Drawing smiley faces and writing love notes typically aren’t against the law, but UVU police are searching for a graffiti artist who picked the wrong canvas.   Three different spray-painted messages were left on campus this semester. Two of them were found in the tunnel between the Computer Sciences building and Mountainside lot 21. The […]

Grassroots organization finds fertile soil

April 16, 2012

Reading Time: 2 minutes Bill McKibben’s lecture created hope for chapter creation of his coalition, 350.org.   Bill McKibben’s recent visit to UVU spurred a collective enthusiasm about current environmental issues, and Associate Professor in Philosophy and Humanities Michael Minch thinks UVU is the perfect place for a 350.org chapter to take root.   “When McKibben was here on […]

Breaking the law to liberate the animals

April 16, 2012

Reading Time: 3 minutes UVU’s Animals and the Law Conference may have been under secret FBI surveillance, with animal rights activist Peter Young as the primary target.   At the conference, held April 5 and 6, attendees were given an evaluation form in order to rate each speaker on various criteria. One of the evaluation sheets that was turned […]

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Animal care facility raises concerns

April 16, 2012

Reading Time: 3 minutes The animal care facility in the new science building is under the microscope. Filling the need of a growing campus just got a whole lot easier. Auditoriums, classrooms and offices were in short supply on campus. The facility contains two holding rooms, a procedure room   and is a portal for future animal research at […]

Los voluntarios en UVU, son la mano derecha de los eventos

April 16, 2012

Reading Time: 2 minutes Sin los voluntarios muchos eventos no podrían ser posible.  UVU cuenta con muchos  estudiantes que aman trabajar sin esperar nada a cambio solo la satisfacción de ayudar.   El viernes pasado aproximadamente  ochenta voluntarios estuvieron presente, en el evento de Celebración en UVU. La presencia de ellos, fue más que importante,  ya que solo así […]

Poetry: Chlorophyl

April 16, 2012

Reading Time: < 1 minute By:  Tess Bybee   The Night says: “enough of this” to me, and lays me to sleep on the grass beneath the trees. The wind kisses each leaf, going from one to another with no disruption of peace. An insect crawled on my sleeve, and pushed it’s space into my space.   I sat up, […]

Latin American celebration

April 16, 2012

Reading Time: 2 minutes For the past few years, the Latin American community in Utah Valley has gathered in the Grande Ballroom for an annual celebration with the purpose to honor its members for their various achievements.   The name of the event “Celebracion Latinoamericana” is Spanish for Latin American Celebration.   “This event brings great opportunity for us […]