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Huntsman Cancer Institute CEO Mary Beckerle Reinstated

By Elise Vandersteen Bailey, Investigative Coordinator • April 25, 2017

Early Tuesday morning, members of the University of Utah’s Board of Trustees met with President David Pershing and Dr. Vivian Lee to discuss their decision to dismiss CEO and director of Huntsman Cancer...

Huntsman Family, HCI Employees Feud with U Over CEO Dismissal

By Elise Vandersteen Bailey and Emily Anderson • April 20, 2017

Monday afternoon, according to Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) employees, University of Utah President David Pershing emailed Mary Beckerle to notify her that she had been dismissed from her position as...

Urban Ecology Students Transform Parking Spots for Earth Week

By Elise Vandersteen Bailey, Investigative Coordinator • April 18, 2017

As part of Earth Week at the University of Utah, the Student Collective of Allied Planners and Ecologists (SCAPE) recognized PARKing Day in the parking lot west of the Marriott Library. The day is a national...

Social Media Manager Named New Executive Editor

By Elise Vandersteen Bailey, Investigative Coordinator • April 10, 2017

Megan Hulse said journalism is a love she stumbled into. Hulse has been named the next Executive Editor of University of Utah Student Media, making her editor-in-chief over both The Daily Utah Chronicle...

U Researchers Design a New Way to Take Photos of the Brain

By Elise Vandersteen Bailey, Investigative Coordinator • April 4, 2017

Like any organ, doctors occasionally need to examine the inside of a patient's brain to see the cells. The most common ways to do this currently are: cutting out a section of the brain and observing...

The U’s Role in the Fight Against the Opioid Epidemic

By Elise Vandersteen Bailey, Investigative Coordinator • March 25, 2017

The National Institute on Drug Abuse estimated that 2.1 million Americans misused prescription opioid pain relievers in 2012. In 2014, Utah was ranked seventh in the nation for “drug poisoning deaths,”...

U Doctor Compares ‘Dung lung’ Sickness in the Himalayas to Utah Air

By Elise Vandersteen Bailey, Investigative Coordinator • March 10, 2017

Nicholas Kanaan, emergency medicine doctor at University of Utah Health Care, recently published a case study in emergency medicine on an airway syndrome affecting people in the Nepali Himalayas that results...

Immersive Video Shows the Impact of Poor Air Quality

By Elise Vandersteen Bailey, Investigative Coordinator • March 8, 2017

This winter, the Salt Lake Valley spent several days with the worst air quality in the nation. Several groups and individuals at the University of Utah are working to educate citizens about it. Among them...

Women’s Week Aims to Change Rape Culture on Campus

March 5, 2017

March 6 through 10 is Women’s Week at the University of Utah planned by the Office for Equity and Diversity to “[celebrate] and [address] the importance of social, economic, cultural and political...

Panel Talks Refugees and Immigration Policy

March 3, 2017

Jason Perry, the University of Utah’s Vice President for Government Relations, opened the March 2 panel discussion on immigration and refugee policy by quoting the Utah Compact —“The way we treat...