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 […]

Spring Break- couch potato style

April 3, 2015

Reading Time: 4 minutes Spring break is a time to be lazy and do nothing but sit on the couch and zone out. That is if you are like most college students and have no money to go on an all out Spring Break Bash trip. With how close spring break is to the end of semester this year, […]

This Will Destroy You at Urban Lounge

April 3, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes Reagan High | Staff Writer | @HighReagan On Friday March 27 I saw the Texas band, This Will Destroy You. TWDY can be given the blanket term of “post-rock,” but with their last two albums they have really transcended that label. Their 2011 album Tunnel Blanket can be described as a dark and daunting ‘doomgaze’ trip […]

The Cougars fall for the first time

April 3, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes Moore’s No-hitter Leads UVU Softball to Win Versus BYU Tim Castaneda | Sports Writer | @xTIMBOxSLICEx Photo Credit: Gabi Campbell, Photo Editor, @gabicampbellphotos UVU softball’s Haley Kofler hit a grand slam and Bailey Moore pitched a no-hit shutout on the road as they led UVU to a 13-0 blow-out Saturday afternoon in UVU’s first-ever victory against […]

Missions and Recruiting

April 3, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes How coaches manage it Kyle McDonald | Sports Writer | @kylesportsbias Photo Credit: Ben Hammond, Staff Photographer BYU isn’t the only school in Utah County that has to deal with their student-athletes choosing to go on a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  Head coaches from Utah Valley University also have to […]

Pedestrian Safety; it’s a Two Way Street

April 2, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes Kira Burton | Staff Writer | [email protected] UtahValleyUniversity is a largely commuter based school, with most students driving from other cities in order to attend classes every day. Because of this, there is a lot of traffic around campus. Once students arrive at school they have to find somewhere to park and then walk to […]

Sheri Dew speaks at UVU

April 2, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes Kayla Clark | Staff Writer   On Wednesday March 18, the UVU Women’s Success Center welcomed  Sheri Dew, CEO of Deseret Book, in an event titled You were born to lead. The event concludes a series of speakers in coordination with the Utah Women and Leadership Project (UWLP). Dew was introduced by UVU President Matthew […]