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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...

Scott Schear, a custodian for the University of Utah J. Willard Marriott Library.

Custodian Finds Cure to Wanderlust at the U

By Connor Richards April 26, 2017

Throughout the course of his 54 years, Scott Schear has lived in four states, 15 cities and approximately 50 different apartments. He has lived around the country and never spends more than one year in...

University of Utah Board of Trustees meet with Dr. Vivian Lee and President David Pershing about the reinstatement of Mary Beckerle as CEO of Huntsman Cancer Insitute. | Elise Vandersteen Bailey

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...

Salt Lake Joins World-Wide March for Science

Salt Lake Joins World-Wide March for Science

By Mckenzie Alder April 24, 2017

Salt Lake City was one of over 500 participating cities to join in the first-ever world-wide March for Science on Saturday, April 22. Other cities who marched to support efforts in science sprawled...

Students Sign Steel Beam to Commemorate OSH

Students Sign Steel Beam to Commemorate OSH

By Connor Richards April 21, 2017

As Orson Spencer Hall goes down and construction begins for the new Carolyn and Kem Gardner Building, campus developers are asking students to leave their mark in time by signing a commemorative steel...

Conrad Anker geared up and climbing out near the team's highest portaledge camp at over 20,000ft.

Students, Sustainability and Activism: Conrad Anker’s Perspective

By Connor Richards April 20, 2017

Before he was a world-renowned mountain climber, Conrad Anker was an undergraduate at the University of Utah. A California native, Anker was attracted to Utah by the variety of outdoor activities that...

Protesters demanding the U reinstate Mary Beckerle as CEO of Huntsman Cancer Institute ascend the stairs of the Park Building, where President David Pershing's office is located, on Wednesday April 19, 2017.

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...

Sidewalk chalk messages at the SCAPE paraking event in the Marriott Library parking lot Apr. 11, 2017. Adam Fondren For the Daily Utah Chronicle.

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...

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...