Reading Time: 2 minutes The service week commemorating Sept. 11 is kicking off early this year with a school supplies drive for refugee children living in Utah. UVUSA’s Independent Branch, which includes UV Mentors, the Multicultural and International student organizations and the Volunteer and Service Learning Center, determined that this year’s 9/11 Service week will be dedicated to […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute United Airlines has selected two UVU School of Aviation Sciences students from thousands of competitors to intern this fall. “The quality of our aviation students is very high,” Jim Green, UVU aviation professor and internship mentor, said. This is the first time any university has had two of its students selected for United Airlines’ […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes After nearly 10 years of planning and just seven months shy of opening, the UVU Review took a sneak peak at the new building on campus. On Tuesday, Aug. 27 Amy Grubbs, Director of UVU Campus Recreation, and Bob Rasmussen, assistant vice president of Student Affairs, led five newspaper staff members on a tour of […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes Joey Whitaker, Reporter, @JoeJoeW22 with additional reporting by Nicole Shepard, News Editor, @NicoleEShepard Each year, groups of students from UVU hop on planes to foreign countries, on their way to study various academic subjects in a culture that is not their own. “Simple exchanges can break down walls between us, for when people come together […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes The days of going to the UVU bookstore, pen and paper in hand, to find textbooks and compare prices is over. Students can now find the exact textbooks they need at the most competitive prices by logging onto their UVLink and looking up their class schedule. “I noticed the other day when […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Nicole Shepard News Editor, @NicoleEShepard President Barak Obama is expected to sign a student loan bill into law that, for now, will lower student loan rates from 6.8 to 3.86 percent. Congress passed the measure on July 31, tying interest rates on federal Stafford loans to the financial market. Linking the rates to the economy […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes By Nicole Shepard, News Editor @NicoleEShepard With the hole in the ground that was once valuable parking space, a cocktail of frustration and panic over the inevitable battle for a decent parking spot has already washed over the student body. A $53 million classroom building takes up a lot of […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Nicole Shepard, News Editor, @NicoleEShepard Republicans and Democrats continue the debate over the doubling of student loan interest rates that took place July 1. “We need a solution that will lift the load of our university students,”, Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H. said. “We need a reform that will not land us back here, […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Nicole Shepard, News Editor @NicoleEShepard The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation named Utah the best-performing state in the 2013 Enterprising States report. Utah ranked second in general job growth and third in job creation for the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields. The job growth is bred from the states technology sector, which hires […]