UVU hires first ever general counsel

March 31, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes Jared Stirland | Staff Writer | [email protected]   On March 9 UVU announced the appointment of attorney Karen Clemes to their first ever general council position.  Clemes’ resume includes years of professional work, most recently as associate general counsel for Ancestry.com and chief standards (ethics) officer for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  […]

SheTech Explorer Day hosted by UVU

March 31, 2015

Reading Time: 3 minutes Jeanette Blain | Staff Writer |@JeanetteBlain   March 13, UVU and Women Tech Council presented the second annual SheTech Explorer Day from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Girls from local high schools came to UVU to explore careers in technology and other STEM fields. It was developed last year by Dr. Angela Trego, an assistant […]

Tech beat: coding campus

March 30, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes Elizabeth Suggs | staff writer   Coding Campus, a boot camp stationed in Provo, Utah, has partnered with UVU to encourage student growth in computer development. Students who wish to learn more about code will have the opportunity to take a 12-week course of Coding Campus. Coding Campus offers programming through HTML, CSS and JavaScript. […]

TEDx comes to UVU

March 30, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes Ryan Dangerfield | staff writer | @ryandanger23   Utah Valley University Student Association (UVUSA) announced the inaugural TEDx UVU conference will be held April 1 in the Ragan Theater. Recently TedX events have been spreading across the country. There are only two primary TED events (exclusively held by TED) each year in California, the original […]

The Valley: episode 6

March 30, 2015

Reading Time: < 1 minute Matt Baiamonte, Sports Brodcaster Kyle Bruderer, Sports Writer Valley Episode 6 The Valley Podcast Episode 6 is all about basketball tournaments. There is a special “March Madness” tournament special segment along with the “Wolverine Express” and another round of questions in “Thoughts in a box.”

Police blotter

March 27, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes Sarah Roberts | Staff Writer | @itssarah_sr   UVU   Due to some unforeseen circumstances we were unable to access the UVU police records this week, but they will appear in next week’s blotter.   OREM CITY   Prostitution: March 12- An investigation started by one of the police patrol crews came to a successful […]

International women’s day

March 27, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes Kayla Clark | Staff Writer   Utah Valley University’s first lady Paige Holland first hosted a Ladies Night in 2011, and that event has developed into UVU’s annual International Women’s Day celebration. This year’s International Women’s Day celebration was held Thursday, March 12 in the Grand Ballroom. “Our women students are very important to us,” […]

Hot off the shelf: More weird reads from the UVU Library

March 16, 2015

Reading Time: 5 minutes About five months ago, I made an expedition into the plenteous bowels of the UVU library to see for myself just what treasures she held. I was not disappointed. After all, a library that contains such divergent titles as Killer Dolphin¸ The History of Tupperware, and Women of the Klan is one with depth and […]

Police blotter

March 16, 2015

Reading Time: 3 minutes Sarah Roberts | Staff Writer | @itssarah_sr   UVU CAMPUS   Traffic Disturbances: March 2- Police responded to a traffic accident at the intersection of 960 S College Drive. Two vehicles had collided with each other, but fortunately there were no injuries to either of the vehicles’ occupants.   March 3- An accident occurred in […]