UVU hosts abuse and assault seminar

April 23, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes Briar Van | Staff Writer   On April 2 UVU hosted a child sexual abuse and sexual assault seminar at Centre Stage.  The Provo Police Department and Utah County Sheriff’s Office partnered with UVU’s Criminal Justice Department to sponsor the free seminar. April is Sexual Violence Awareness Month and the seminar was held to create […]

Scribbling Women: UVU exhibits the lives of nineteenth century female writers and abolitionists

April 23, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes Regan Tall | Staff Writer | [email protected] UVU English students have put together an exhibition on women writers of the early nineteenth century through the civil war. The exhibit is called Scribbling Women and is on display in the George Sutherland archives (third floor of the library) through April 24. The exhibit is open to all […]

Tuition rises while student fees fall

April 20, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes Carrie Laudie | News Editor | @carrielaudie   On Friday March 27, UVU announced student fees and tuition for the 2015-16 school year. There will be a slight decrease in student fees and a three percent increase in first-tier tuition. There will be no increase in second-tier tuition, for the second consecutive year in a […]

Global spotlight: Ricardo Romero

April 20, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes Jeanette Blain | Staff Writer | @JeanetteBlain Mar. 19, 2015, Ricardo Romero Talledo spoke to 150 students in the Ragan Theatre as part of the lecture series for UVU’s Global Spotlight Peru initiative. This lecture was sponsored by the International and Multicultural Studies Department and cosponsored by the Department of Finance and Economics at UVU Woodbury […]

Dr. Sara Ulloa speaks at UVU about women of the mountain

April 20, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes Jeanette Blain | Staff Writer | @JeanetteBlain Women of the Mountains, an academic lecture by Dr. Sara Ulloa was held April 1 in room SC213B as part of Global Spotlight Peru. The event was a forum to raise awareness for International Women of the Mountains as well as other UVU initiatives that aim to help improve […]

Brain Day

April 20, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes Jared Stirland | Staff writer | [email protected]   A small group of children gathered around UVU professor Claudia Lieberwirth on Saturday, March 21, while she demonstrated the protective effects of cerebral spinal fluid – a layer of liquid between the brain and the skull – as part of Brain Day.  Brain Day was this month’s query event […]

Police blotter

April 17, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes Sarah Roberts | Staff Writer | @itssarah_sr   UVU   False Alarm: April 2- An officer was dispatched to the old Wee Care center. The officer found that the alarm was set off accidentally by construction workers in the building. The alarm was reset and no further action was taken. April 8- The alarm in […]

2015 faculty fellowship awards

April 16, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes Ryan Dangerfield | Staff Writer | @ryandanger23   Utah Valley University’s Center for the Study of Ethics announced its annual Faculty Fellowship Awards. The recipients are Suzy Cox, a professor in elementary education, and Michael Minch, a professor in philosophy and humanities. Minch received the first ever Interdisciplinary Group Fellowship Award, offered from the Ethics […]