Reading Time: 2 minutes Utah Valley University Student Association has opened the executive student council applications for the upcoming school year, 2022-2023. Open positions include: Student Body President, Vice President of Engagement, Vice President of Academic Senate, Vice President of Student Activities, and the Executive Assistant (appointed by the Student Body President). The executive student council oversees the UVUSA […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes As winter sets in and the days are filled with snow, Utah Valley University implements a new snow day policy. Wayne Vaught, provost senior vice president of academic affairs, Val Peterson, vice president of administration and strategic relations, and Robin Ebmeyer, director of emergency management and safety, sent out the update before the winter break. […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes The final speaker of the Roots of Knowledge speaker series event was dean of students, Alexis Palmer. Her presentation was titled “Breaking Barriers: Transferring knowledge from the future generation to the current generation” in honor of the RoK’s fifth anniversary. Palmer started on the far side of the gallery with column Z: Hope for Humanity. […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Mental Health Services disseminates mental health information through outreach initiatives like the Preventive Outreach Program and provides Self-Help resources. These consist of presentations and workshops that accommodate groups and are led by mental health professionals. “Mental health is important, and physical health is too, [and] freshman or students that are from out-of-state and don’t have […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes The wellness wheel at Utah Valley University provides a template to help students balance wellness in different areas of their life. The wellness wheel is split up into six different wellness areas that include: intellectual, emotional, physical, spiritual, social, and nutritional. “The wellness wheel encompasses the overall health, not just physical health,” said Trevor Carter, […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes UVU’s Women’s Success Center, Multicultural Student Council, and the Raíces Club collaborated to celebrate El Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead). Two ofrendas (alters) were created: one at the multicultural student center and the other in the Women’s Success Center. In the Multicultural Center a large mural was erected and a movie screening […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes *The following article discusses sexual and domestic violence and may be triggering. Utah Valley University’s Center for Social Impact organized The Clothesline Project in the Grande Ballroom. The Clothesline Project is designed, “to bring awareness to sexual/domestic [issues] through t-shirts,” said Priscilla Villaseñor-Navarro, a junior in integrated studies and a community organizing and activism fellow […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes UVUSA placed approximately 41,000 small flags in the Fulton Library Quad to symbolize voter-eligible members of the student body and encourage them to vote through My Voice Matters Week. “Each flag represents a student’s voice and the display emphasizes the power our voices have when we work together,” said Daniel Clothier, chief justice for UVUSA. […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Understanding the “horrific” history of racial inequality is necessary to achieve modern reproductive justice, said Dr. Leandra Hernandez in the Roots of Knowledge Speaker Series on Oct. 7. Hernandez began by explaining how her research is connected to the Roots of Knowledge through the piece, “Genesis of Humanity.” The Roots of Knowledge describes this piece, […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes On Sept. 30, Dr. Rachel Arocho, assistant professor of family science at Utah Valley University and graduate of Demography and Quantitative Research Methods, spoke about her research. She delineated a complex family tree, including the challenges and promises of fertility technologies and how they’ll change how we define family. It was featured in the Roots […]