2015 faculty fellowship awards

April 16, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes Ryan Dangerfield | Staff Writer | @ryandanger23   Utah Valley University’s Center for the Study of Ethics announced its annual Faculty Fellowship Awards. The recipients are Suzy Cox, a professor in elementary education, and Michael Minch, a professor in philosophy and humanities. Minch received the first ever Interdisciplinary Group Fellowship Award, offered from the Ethics […]

UVU holds Utah Data Dive

April 16, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes Jeanette Blain | Staff Writer | @JeanetteBlain On March 27 and 28, the first annual Utah Data Dive was held at UVU. The event was organized by Assistant Professor Bart Poulson, with a grant from the UVU Office of Engaged Learning. Over 60 students, teachers and working professionals gave their time to help solve data problems […]

Nano-robotics may help cure cancer

April 16, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes Elizabeth Suggs | Staff Writer   This year, Ido Bachelet of Israel’s Bar-IIan University and colleagues hope to test nanobots on a leukemia patient, with the nanobots acting as white blood cells.  The patient targeted has only a few months to live, and Bachelet plans to cure the patient in a month. Cancer is a […]

UVU students attend national prayer breakfast

April 16, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes Trisha Dugovic | Staff Writer | [email protected]   In order to promote the Women of the Mountains conference, which will be held at UVU in October, UVU students and faculty traveled to Washington, D.C. to the National Prayer Breakfast where world leaders joined together on common ground. Attendees from many different faiths came together in […]