Reading Time: 2 minutes Shane Tambanivoul, Sophomore Shane Tambanivoul, a 22-year-old, is currently a sophomore studying IT, Information Technology Database in Security. Tambanivoul was born on a small island, Mauritius, in East Africa, with about 1.2 million people. He graduated high school at the age of 15. He decided to come to Utah after an invitation from his cousin […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Chase Petersen, a 27-year-old junior studying musical theater, shared his five year journey that got him to UVU. Petersen began his college journey back in 2014 at BYU-Idaho. He attended college there for a semester before he transferred to Utah State University. After a year and a half there, he decided to take a break […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes This week, Humans of UVU highlights Mikaela Cowles, a sophomore studying Physics with an emphasis in Astronomy who has a dream of being an astronaut for NASA. “My entire life my dad was interested in space and always had space magazines so I would look at them and I wouldn’t understand a single word in […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes Chrissy Keller, a soon to be 2020 UVU graduate, shares her 15-year journey to graduation: Chrissy Keller, President of the Utah County Republican Women organization, U.S. representative at international folk festivals in 35 countries as the lead vocalist and mandolin player with the World Wide Association of Performing Artists (WWAPA), licensed Esthetician and makeup artist, and […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes Oscar award-winning sound mixer turned Wolverine sets his sights on medical school as a 50-year-old freshman. It’s 6:16 a.m., and David Parker a freshman studying biology is waiting at the Trax station in Salt Lake City for his ride to the Frontrunner. He will take that train to UVU and back by 3 p.m. to […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Week 3 of Humans of UVU focuses on a sophomore named Makena Saluone. Saluone is majoring in Civil Engineering at UVU and shared an interesting story regarding her and her aunt. “We were in San Diego for Comic-Con and decided to wait at the bottom floor of our hotel to see if we could find […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Week number two of Humans of UVU highlights Megan Arnita. Megan is a Sophmore at UVU studying Pre-Nursing. Megan shared a fun story about one thing she likes to do with her friends. “So this one day, me and my friends had this crazy idea to go to the Grand Canyon to watch the sunrise! […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Big Announcement: You have made one of the best choices you’ve ever made by clicking on the first of the Humans of UVU series! Every week we will be highlighting one of our very own Wolverines right here. Our reporters will be in the halls, finding all of you with funny, relatable and inspiring stories […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Xu DzKeiradz Sun, originally from Henan, the most populated province in China, moved to Texas to pursue both an MBA and the Doctorial degree in Finance in 2011. Four years later, upon finishing two degrees, Sun relocated to Utah, becoming an associate professor at the Woodbury School of Business.Sun especially enjoys every moment with her […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Heritage and religion are what have shaped and defined brothers Sean and Levi Loy. Having grown up on the Navajo Reservation in northern Arizona, these brothers learned how to embrace their Native American culture. The Loy’s are one-quarter Piute-Shoshoni-Nez Perce and three-quarters Navajo, as their parents are registered with different tribes. The Loy parents met […]