Reading Time: < 1 minute Karen Magaña will become UVU’s Student Body President this April, as chosen by the voice of the students. The announcement came on Thursday, Feb. 25th at 6p.m., after the 4-day voting took place at the school and online. Magaña will be joined by Bryson Finley as Executive Vice-President, Dylan Christensen as Vice-President of Academic Senate […]
Reading Time: 7 minutes Intro While there are a great number of boards and committees that share governance at UVU, elected student body officers are the primary source of advocacy for the student body. Given that administrators, faculty and staff are appointed by university stakeholders without any student involvement, student body representatives are the primary advocates for students. As […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Valentyna Kyzym, a UVU student studying digital marketing, works as an assistant for digital marketing and graphic design on campus. While many of her peers are from the United States, she is from Ukraine. “I decided 6 months before I arrived here, that I would come here to UVU,” Kyzym said. “We called a friend, […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute With the rising popularity of card games during the pandemic, UVU alumni Brady Aste and Nathan Wilson envisioned a new kind of deck of cards for Texas Hold ’em poker, one that could dissolve barriers for new and casual players. Instead of relying on players’ (or the internet’s) knowledge of strategies, jargon and hand rankings, […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Shane Tambanivoul, Sophomore Shane Tambanivoul, a 22-year-old, is currently a sophomore studying IT, Information Technology Database in Security. Tambanivoul was born on a small island, Mauritius, in East Africa, with about 1.2 million people. He graduated high school at the age of 15. He decided to come to Utah after an invitation from his cousin […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Chase Petersen, a 27-year-old junior studying musical theater, shared his five year journey that got him to UVU. Petersen began his college journey back in 2014 at BYU-Idaho. He attended college there for a semester before he transferred to Utah State University. After a year and a half there, he decided to take a break […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes This week, Humans of UVU highlights Mikaela Cowles, a sophomore studying Physics with an emphasis in Astronomy who has a dream of being an astronaut for NASA. “My entire life my dad was interested in space and always had space magazines so I would look at them and I wouldn’t understand a single word in […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes Chrissy Keller, a soon to be 2020 UVU graduate, shares her 15-year journey to graduation: Chrissy Keller, President of the Utah County Republican Women organization, U.S. representative at international folk festivals in 35 countries as the lead vocalist and mandolin player with the World Wide Association of Performing Artists (WWAPA), licensed Esthetician and makeup artist, and […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes Oscar award-winning sound mixer turned Wolverine sets his sights on medical school as a 50-year-old freshman. It’s 6:16 a.m., and David Parker a freshman studying biology is waiting at the Trax station in Salt Lake City for his ride to the Frontrunner. He will take that train to UVU and back by 3 p.m. to […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Week 3 of Humans of UVU focuses on a sophomore named Makena Saluone. Saluone is majoring in Civil Engineering at UVU and shared an interesting story regarding her and her aunt. “We were in San Diego for Comic-Con and decided to wait at the bottom floor of our hotel to see if we could find […]