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Job Fair to Help Students Find Summer Work

February 3, 2015

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]   Don’t have a job lined up for this summer yet? There’s still time. The U is hosting their annual summer job fair on Thursday. Leslie Bolton, the student...

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Hinckley Institute Chooses Chaffetz as Politician of the Year

February 2, 2015

  The Hinckley Institute of Politics chose Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) as their “Politician of the Year” on Friday. This marks the first year that the award was given at the U. Kirk Jowers,...

((Photo by Chris Samuels) Nighttime activity in Cusco, Peru.  Photo taken during a summer internship with Ascend Humanitarian Alliance.)

Learning Abroad Fair to Expand Student Horizons

February 2, 2015

  Whether it’s an internship in Spain, social work in Peru or a study abroad in Japan, you can figure out travel plans at the annual Learning Abroad fair being held today in the Union Ballroom...

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Awareness Week Encourages Students to Seek Financial Aid

February 2, 2015

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]   From Feb. 2 to Feb. 6, the U’s Financial Aid and Scholarship Office will be sponsoring a Financial Aid Awareness Week for students on campus. YOU MIGHT...

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Vaccinations Are the First Step to Preventing Meningitis

By Christine Kannapel February 2, 2015

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]   Cases of meningitis are rapidly growing among young adults, but these infections can be prevented. YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE: U RESEARCH TEAM DEVELOPS NEW ANTIBIOTICS Kurt...

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U’s Relation to Fossil Fuels Complicated

By Taylor Almond February 2, 2015

  The U’s climate plan takes its own carbon footprint into consideration, but not its partners’. Jeff Wrigley, energy manager for the U’s Facilities Management, said the U used 1.8 mmBtus...

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U Research Team Develops New Antibiotics

By Carolyn Webber January 30, 2015

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]   As new illnesses and bacteria continue to develop, so should the antibiotics to beat them. Yet big pharmaceutical companies often leave the research to universities,...

((Courtesy of Lisa Cannon-Albright)
Pictured is Lisa Cannon-Albright, professor and the chief of the Division of Genetic Epidemiology in the Department of Medicine at the U.)

Fighting Prostate Cancer with Genetics

By Christine Kannapel January 30, 2015

  Most of the men at the U are young and carefree, but it’s never too early to look at their family history for prostate cancer because it may benefit them in the future. Since the 1970s, Lisa...

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U Students Study Wildlife in Red Butte Canyon

January 30, 2015

  Life in Salt Lake City is full of buzzing cars and tall buildings, but just beyond the metropolitan area in Red Butte Canyon lies an area teeming with wild animals, including elk, moose and deer. A...

((Photo Courtesy of Rachel Bissegger) Pictured is Bissegger and her children)

Student-Parents Face a Balancing Act

By Christine Kannapel January 29, 2015

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]   Rachelle Peterson, a double major in international studies and history, and Rachel Bissegger, a history major, are both mothers taking classes at the U. Both...