Students, meet your science building

March 26, 2012

Reading Time: 2 minutes Last week was the first week students could walk through the new College of Science and Health Building. Although it will not be utilized until this summer, students enjoyed being able to go through the building to get around the school.   Trevor Davis works for catering and is happy the hallway has opened up […]

Graphic design department offers expertise at conference

March 26, 2012

Reading Time: 2 minutes Nearly 500 technology oriented high school students poured into the conference center of Salt Lake Community College’s Miller campus  for an 8:30 a.m. keynote address.   The annual conference of the Academy of Information Technology convened on Wednesday, March 21, to host kids from five Utah school districts and reinforce the AOIT objective of offering […]

Venues

March 26, 2012

Reading Time: 2 minutes Cake eaters, awkward toasters and relatives you never knew you had will only be there for a few moments.   That one day, that one thing, that one reason, that one person, that one place. You want perfection, if not just for you, so that you won’t have to hear it from your mother-in-law for […]

Data aggregation? Data aggression

March 26, 2012

Reading Time: 4 minutes Our so-called privacy may as well be considered piracy and it seems like no one is fighting it. There are well over 800 million Facebook users and 100 percent of those users are making themselves vulnerable to data aggregation.   Social media sites are getting smarter. Facebook made $3.2 billion in revenue last year from […]

New Buffalo Wild Wings supports UVU

March 26, 2012

Reading Time: 2 minutes Buffalo Wild Wings has a history of opening restaurants in areas with a high population of college students. With more than 60,000 students in Utah county alone, Buffalo Wild Wings corporate team felt this location was a perfect fit.   “The reaction from the local students has been outstanding,” said Russ Despain, assistant manager of […]

Manning gave Elway the out he needed

March 26, 2012

Reading Time: 2 minutes Peyton Manning just bailed John Elway out in a humongous way.   Having lived everywhere from Boston to San Francisco, I have seen the contrast between the big market sports cities as well as the blip-on-the-radar organizations. You don’t see a player the magnitude of Peyton Manning choose to play up in the mountains when […]

Dresses

March 26, 2012

Reading Time: 2 minutes The first thing every woman does after she’s engaged, and often times long before, is find the wedding dress of her dreams.   When all is said and done, she won’t remember what she ate or what exactly the décor was, but she’ll remember your dress and how you looked in it. It’s important that […]

Two classes breathe life into summer term

March 26, 2012

Reading Time: 2 minutes Students yearning for a means to meld academia and notions of pop culture may find deliverance this summer in two classes taught by Humanities Professor Steven Hall.   Originally developed to attract more students to the Humanities program, “Post-Modern Hollywood” and “From Mozart to Michael,” both revived for their second summer, have attracted students from […]

Protecting online privacy

March 26, 2012

Reading Time: 2 minutes Students at UVU and around the world are faced with the difficulty of deciding what belongs online and how to control private data.   In recent years, the Internet has become a public place, much like a school, a store or an arcade. Facebook has over 800 million users sharing their lives with an increasingly […]

Free tax assistance available

March 26, 2012

Reading Time: 2 minutes The stressful tax season is in full swing and United Way’s Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program offers free tax assistance to those who qualify.   The VITA program offers free tax preparation to Utah County residents with an income of $50,000 or less. The VITA program is grant-run and targeted toward low-income individuals, according to […]