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Photos of the Garff Building Donors at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City on Wednesday October 3rd, 2018

$2 Billion by 2022

By Mackenzie McDermott October 23, 2018

The U’s newest donation campaign that started in September of this year, “Imagine New Heights,” strives for more. With a goal to raise $2 billion by 2022, the U is already over half way done. From...

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A Look at Pollution Indoors

By Mackenzie McDermott October 18, 2018

  The Salt Lake–Provo–Orem area took number eight on the 2018 list of highest short-term particle pollution in the nation and 18 for worst ozone by the American Lung Association. That pollution...

A stack of formerly banned books available at the Marriott Library. 

(Photo by: Justin Prather | The Utah Chronicle).

Banned Books are Not History

By Mackenzie McDermott October 11, 2018

The days of banned and challenged books are not over. This is the message the University of Utah’s J. Willard Marriott Library is trying to share. In honor of Banned Books Week, the library hosted a...

(Photo by: Justin Prather | The Utah Chronicle).

Avoid the ER on Halloween

By Mackenzie McDermott October 5, 2018

While children were trick or treating and university students were out partying, Matt Difrancesca has spent his last four Halloweens in the emergency room. Difrancesca has been an ER doctor at the University...

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The Feather in Their Caps

By Mackenzie McDermott September 24, 2018

Each year, the U.S. State Department sponsors an award to take students all around the globe. Recipients get a chance to live in another country performing research, earning a Master’s degree or teaching...

H. David Burton, chair of the University of Utah Board of Trustees (right), and Harris H. Simmons, chair of the Utah Board of Regents (center), present Dr. Ruth Watkins with a Utah Woman Am I  pillow at her inauguration of University of Utah president at Kingsbury Hall in Salt Lake City, Utah on Friday, Sept. 21, 2018. (Photo by Kiffer Creveling | The Daily Utah Chronicle)

University of Utah Inaugurates First Female President

By Mackenzie McDermott September 24, 2018

Three harps played as leaders from across Utah filed into the historic Kingsbury Hall. All gathered to see the inauguration of the first female president of the University of Utah, Ruth Watkins. Watkins...

Utah Ranks Last in Womens Rights

Utah Ranks Last in Women’s Rights

By Mackenzie McDermott September 14, 2018

In a country that already ranks only 49 out of 144 in the World Economic Forum’s gender equality report, Utah has been ranked the worst state in the nation for women’s rights by WalletHub. WalletHub’s...

Finance Students Gain Access to Second Largest Wealth Management Platform

Finance Students Gain Access to Second Largest Wealth Management Platform

By Mackenzie McDermott September 13, 2018

The University of Utah has joined nearly 30 schools across the nation in giving students access to the second-largest wealth management platform in the United States, eMoney, as part of its university...

(Photo by: Justin Prather | The Utah Chronicle).

Spreading Awareness of Microaggressions at the U

By Mackenzie McDermott September 11, 2018

Since late August, posters have lined the courtyard of the Marriot Library. Each shows a face and a phrase. “Where are you really from?” asks one. “You’re pretty for a dark-skin girl,” reads...

University Ranks Second in LGBTQ Friendly Universities

University Ranks Second in LGBTQ Friendly Universities

By Mackenzie McDermott September 4, 2018

Affordable Colleges Online (AC) has ranked the University of Utah as the second-friendliest college for LGBTQ students in the United States, coming in just behind the University of California-Riverside. One...

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