Police blotter

June 3, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes Sarah Roberts | Staff Writer | @itssarah_sr   UVU Suspicious Persons: May 6- Officers received reports of a suspicious man in the PE Building. The reports indicated that the man had a pistol in the waistband of his pants. Police reported to the building and performed routine checks. After finding the man with an unconcealed […]

Police blotter

May 15, 2015

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 […]

Student success story: Josh Told

May 13, 2015

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 […]

Tedx UVU session four

May 11, 2015

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 […]

Tedx UVU session three

May 11, 2015

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 […]

Tedx UVU second session

May 11, 2015

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 […]

Tedx UVU first session

May 11, 2015

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 […]

Tech beat: coding campus follow-up

May 11, 2015

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 […]

Letter to the Editor: thanks to UVU 100 scholars

May 4, 2015

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 […]