Dancing clowns, male strippers and singing cowgirls all took the stage Thursday night in the Union Ballroom for a lighthearted Homecoming Week event.

The newly refurbished University Kids Center, now owned and operated by the Children's Creative Learning Centers Inc., will celebrate its grand opening today.

As part of the U's internationalization effort in 2008, two students were sent to an annual forum in China to discuss economic and political changes.

The number of medical students graduating in primary care, which includes family medicine, internal medicine and pediatrics, has dropped over the past 10 years. However, the U saw a rise in the number of medical students interested in primary care from 2007 to 2008.

In a time of economic upheaval, high energy costs and an unpopular war, Utah remains as conservative as ever, panelists said Wednesday at the Hinckley Institute of Politics.

Susan Mango uses expensive equipment for her research at the Huntsman Cancer Institute, but with the drop in the economy she said it can be difficult to find funding for research.

The Hinckley Institute of Politics held a panel on Tuesday where representatives of the justice system and mental health agencies said a myriad of problems are plaguing the mental health care industry in Utah.

The Bennion Community Service Center's annual Hunger Banquet acted as an eye-opening metaphor, bringing the statistics of world hunger to a more personal level.

At a lecture, two Indian activists, Kohli and a pro bono attorney, discussed the Indian government's mining access grant as an affront to the local people and their environment.

Instead of visiting family or soaking up sun in the Bahamas, some U students will spend Fall Break serving the community.