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The U Welcomes Largest Freshmen Class

The U Welcomes Largest Freshmen Class

By Mackenzie McDermott July 22, 2017

The University of Utah has nearly 32,000 students, and that number keeps growing. Although the U isn’t quite sure how large it is, it is preparing to welcome the largest incoming freshmen class in the...

Josiah Purss, Ryan Bliss, and Daniel Ruales in Washington D.C.

U students break world record Ubering across America

By Mackenzie McDermott June 27, 2017

What started out as a 2 a.m. brainstorming session of ways to promote their app, Hashtaggy, turned into the trip of a lifetime for University of Utah students Ryan Bliss, Josiah Purss and Daniel Ruales....

Mushroom cloud from Operation Plumbbob: Owens

Library Preserves Stories of Downwinders

By Mackenzie McDermott June 13, 2017

Since October 2016, the J. Willard Marriott Library’s Downwinders of Utah Archive has shed light on the stories of people affected by fallout from the nuclear tests performed in Nevada. From June 12...

Wireframe, of the Student Page, developers are working from that will be almost identical to the finished product.

CIS Gets First Update Since Early 2000s

By Mackenzie McDermott June 1, 2017

The University of Utah’s Campus Information System (CIS) is getting a modern twist. Still in the works, the new site is expected to go live late this summer or early fall of 2017. Used by students...

New Program Builds Bridges Across Disciplines

New Program Builds Bridges Across Disciplines

By Mackenzie McDermott May 15, 2017

The University of Utah will become the first university to provide a Masters of Arts and Teaching Fine Arts Degree hybrid program. The online and in-person courses are intended to allow current fine...

Judge and U Professor Dies at 67

By Mackenzie McDermott May 14, 2017

Robert Hilder served for 16 years as a judge in Utah’s Third District Court, graduated from the University of Utah and was an adjunct professor of law at the U. Hilder died April 26 of complications...

U Researchers Discover Two Small Galaxies

U Researchers Discover Two Small Galaxies

By Mackenzie McDermott May 2, 2017

Assistant professor in the department of physics and astronomy, Anil Seth along with other researchers at the University of Utah found two small dwarf galaxies with supermassive black holes. This discovery...

Meet Your Student Body Officers

Meet Your Student Body Officers

By Jordan Higgins, Ashley Baker, and Mackenzie McDermott April 27, 2017

Zach Berger By Mackenzie McDermott Salt Lake City native and East High graduate Zach Berger will be the new president of Associated Students of the University of Utah (ASUU). Berger is an English major...

Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune
Salt Lake Tribune senior managing editor Matt Canham breaks out the sparkling wine and cider as Tribune photography director Jeremy Harmon and three members of The Tribunes Pulitzer Prize-winning team — managing editor Sheila McCann, reporter Alex Stuckey and digital editor Rachel Piper — look on.

Former Chronicle Editor Wins Pulitzer Prize for Sexual Assault Coverage

By Mackenzie McDermott April 17, 2017

On April 10, The Salt Lake Tribune made headlines as it won a Pulitzer Prize in Local Reporting for its investigative coverage of sexual assault on college campuses. Rachel Piper, a former editor-in-chief...

The University of Utah EDX Laboratory, a research group that has developed an electromagnet that can separate metals such as aluminum and copper that aren’t naturally magnetic, but very valuable for metal recyclers

The U Joins Dept. of Energy Project to Increase Sustainable Manufacturing

By Mackenzie McDermott April 17, 2017

This year the University of Utah teamed up with other leading research universities and companies under the United States Department of Energy to create a new manufacturing initiative called Reducing Embodied-Energy...

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