Reading Time: 2 minutes Jared Stirland | Assistant Lifestyle Editor | [email protected] On January 19, 2006, NASA’s New Horizons space mission sent their satellite probe on a trajectory for Pluto and the Kuiper belt. At 36,373 miles per hour, New Horizons set a record for the fastest man-made object to be launched from Earth. Early Tuesday morning, July […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Jeanette Blain | News Editor | [email protected] Gabi Campbell | Art Director | @gabicampbellphotos Record holding speed pilot Mike Patey showed off his new plane design July 16 at UVU’s Hangar B at Provo Airport. Earlier this year, Patey held a Paint the Plane contest for a design for his new speed plane, Turbulence. […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Students learn STEM in hands-on workshops Christine Behle | Staff Writer | [email protected] Photo credit: Ben Hammond | Photographer | @benjiorb On July 10, UVU hosted a Sci-Tech Expo event for middle school kids in summer prep programs from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Students from Weber State University, UVU, and the American Indian Studies […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Robby Poffenberger | Assistant News Editor | @robby_poff Photo courtesy of Rachel C. Sevison-Haws Bad boys be warned – 22 more street-ready cop school graduates are heading your way. On July 9, the Utah Valley University Law Enforcement Academy graduated 22 students, each having completed the 11-month course to obtain a certificate that qualifies them […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes UVU gets exclusive invite to U.N. conference in Tajikistan Christine Behle | Staff Writer | [email protected] Photo courtesy of Rusty Butler UVU was the only university in the world that was invited to the June United Nations conference in Tajikistan. Rusty Butler, associate vice president of International Affairs and Diplomacy at UVU, and […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Sarah Roberts | Staff Writer | @itssarah_sr UVU Suspicious Person: July 3- Police received reports of a suspicious man in the Classroom Building, that was supposed to be closed and locked due to the holiday. Officers located the man, who claimed he was waiting to meet with a counselor although the counselor did […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Jeanette Blain | News Editor | [email protected] Photos courtesy of UVU Marketing It was announced in June that Marc Archambault, who is the vice president of Development and Alumni Relations, will be leaving UVU to accept a position with Western Kentucky University (WKU), at Bowling Green. Archambault has held his current position since 2010. […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Vyking Events Gives Back to Community Mackenzie Hurst | Staff Writer | @kenziehurst Vyking Events hosted its first BROtique event on June 20, over Father’s Day weekend, at Rustica Hardware in Springville, which provided attendees an opportunity to find the perfect gift for dad. “There are a lot of events catered to women, which is […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Human Brain, Impulse Control, and the Evolution of Cooking. Garret Stirland | Staff Writer Photo By Julie Ostler @jules1lo Humans are the only creatures in the animal kingdom known to cook their food. However, chimpanzees may be making a run at culinary. Cooking food is something that seems very instinctual to us as human beings. […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes A Look Into the Benefits of Yoga for College Students Chandler Christensen | Staff Writer There are many pictures of people doing yoga poses on Instagram like Upward-Facing Dog, Downward-Facing Dog, Warrior I, and Warrior II, or perhaps you know how to do Downward-Facing Dog yourself. For those in Western society, yoga is used as […]