Reading Time: 2 minutes Sarah Roberts | Staff Writer | @itssarah_sr UVU Theft: May 1- A recently terminated UVU employee returned to campus and illegally took possession of a UVU generator. Police opened a case and are investigating the matter further. May 1- An officer patrolling a UVU baseball game was notified of a suspicious man lurking […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Katelyn Bello | Staff Writer | [email protected] UVU alum Josh Told has been accepted to present a research project that he and two others recently published in a peer-reviewed journal at an Osteopathic Medical Conference in Ohio. Told, along with Zachary Lyman and Dr. Rodger Broome, assistant professor in the Department of Emergency services, published Mind-Body […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Garret Stirland | Staff Writer The final session of TEDx UVU, featured eight different speakers. Topics ranged from creative video game production to the importance of poetry in high school. Dr. Suzy Cox, an associate professor in the School of Education at UVU, explained the importance of adolescents in our society. “The average age […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Ryan Dangerfield | Staff Writer | @ryandanger23 The third session of TedXUVU consisted of Jeanette Bennett, founder and editor-in-chief of Bennett Communications, Craig Thulin, chemistry professor, Kyle Reyes, special assistant to UVU president, Native American dancer Carl Moore, stuntman Robert Bennett, and The People Code author Taylor Hartman. Jeanette Bennett spoke about how the […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Ryan Dangerfield | Staff Writer | @ryandanger23 The speakers for the second session of TedX UVU were Paul Parkin, a communication professor, Carine Clark, a survivor of ovarian cancer, UVU President Matthew Holland, Cheryl Hanewicz, department chair of the Technology Management Department, and Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes. Parkin spoke about empathy and said […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes Garret Stirland | Staff Writer In the spirit of spreading ideas worth sharing, UVU hosted a TEDx event. Wrapping up the first session was a presentation offered by Joe Landolina, a 21-year-old and the inventor of VETI-GEL, a gel that can stop traumatic bleeding instantaneously without the need of applied pressure. “One of my […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Elizabeth Suggs | Staff Writer Coding Campus, a company that recently partnered with the community and Continuing Education Department at UVU, gives students and non-students alike the opportunity to partake in computer science. A previous article about coding campus said both grants and scholarships for UVU will be made available by April. According to […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Carrie Laudie | Editor in Chief | @carrielaudie On Tuesday, April 28, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) heard arguments about whether or not same-sex marriage should be legalized. An amicus brief was submitted by “100 scholars of marriage,” including President Matthew Holland, who not only used his name, but also his […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute On May 1st, The Salt Lake Tribune published a letter signed by approximately 108 members of the faculty and staff of Utah Valley University. The letter, which can be found here, addresses President Holland’s recent participation in an amicus brief filed in the 10th circuit court, in opposition of gay marriage. Faculty and staff who […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes This letter was featured in the Salt Lake Tribune on Saturday May 2 as the Letter of the week. There were 108 signatures when it was submitted. There are now 114. (More than) 100 UVU Scholars Committed to Diversity and Inclusion George Pyle wrote Sunday in the Salt Lake Tribune that Gene Schaerr, the lawyer […]