Reading Time: 2 minutes The heavy-duty plastic veil was pulled back for a private tour of the new Science Building, on schedule to be completed by March 2012. Director of Facilities Planning Jim Michaelis and Senior Director of Engineering and Space Development Frank Young led a small group of students through the building Monday, Oct. 24. Fruition […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes The video game industry is worth $10.5 billion annually. A class at UVU is trying to help students get in on some of that money. The class is Art 426R or Concept Design I. It was designed by Don Seegmiller and Kevin Scholz, who teaches the class. The idea behind the class is […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes There is nothing apparently excellent or extraordinary about Cindy Oppel, a Business Student at UVU; yet this average UVU student has now made a large impact on, the largest university in the state. Friday night, Oppel with teary eyes accepted a full tuition scholarship from President Holland himself. Because Oppel spoke up, she inspired Holland […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes UVU trades green in for pink to raise cancer awareness Count Utah Valley among the countless sports programs that care about cancer. The volleyball and women’s soccer teams both hosted “pink games” in the month of October, including Thursday’s volleyball match against Houston Baptist. Like their professional counterparts, UVU athletes sported pink accessories […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes The UVU Community and Public Health department has recently been working on a campus vending machine research project. It’s designed to measure the effects of clearer nutritional health information on items sold in vending machines and the impact that has on choice. Assistant Professor Mary Brown said it all started a year and a […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes The biggest undertaking the fine arts department has ever attempted is being spearheaded by a professor who’s only been on campus two years. Last year, Dr. Reed Criddle, Director of Choral Activities, had the idea of producing “Carmina Burana,” an ambitious performance piece that would involve nearly every part of the fine arts department. […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Everybody wants to be a rockstar. The adrenaline of playing in front of millions of people, the money and the fame are all parts of the rockstar dream that so many musicians share. Like every teenage boy who picks up a guitar and dreams about being the next Hendrix, or every young girl stepping […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Recycling matters: From past to present Plastic bottles peak out from two different bins. One, a large trash can. The other, a bright blue recycling bin. From the beginning, the success of recycling at UVU had started with students. Recycling at UVU began over a decade ago as a student initiative. Since then, it […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes The road can be a dangerous place. Thousands of pounds of metal cruise down city streets and highways of speeds ranging from 40-70 MPH. If a car is driving unsafely, it can be dangerous for everyone in its vicinity. A person can be driving just about anywhere and see the people in the car […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Being part of the Fugees means more than playing soccer: it is a lifestyle—good grades, good behavior, and good friendships are all part of the game. Last Thursday at noon, students filled the Student Center ballroom to hear the keynote speech of UVU’s “Outcasts Speak” week from Luma Mufleh, head coach and founder of […]