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Mary Beckerle and Vivian Lee meet with former Vice President Biden at the Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah to speak about the importance of cancer research, Feburary, 26, 2016 — Kiffer Creveling

Huntsman Memorandum May Have Played Role in HCI Rift

By Elise Vandersteen Bailey, Investigative Coordinator May 2, 2017

A little over a month before Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) CEO and Director Mary Beckerle was dismissed by University of Utah President David Pershing and Senior Vice President of Health Science, Vivian...

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...

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...

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...

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 Tribune's 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...

U Medical Students Help Moran Eye Center Provide Free Eye Surgeries for Uninsured Utahns

U Medical Students Help Moran Eye Center Provide Free Eye Surgeries for Uninsured Utahns

By Mackenzie McDermott April 14, 2017

The John A. Moran Eye Center—part of the University of Utah healthcare system—treated uninsured, low-income Utahns with free eye surgeries on Saturday, April 8 as part of Operation Sight Day. The institute...

Start by Believing University of Utah hosts the 2017 SlutWalk to raise awareness for sexual assault and how to stop it at the Marriott Library Plaza on Tuesday, April 4, 2017.  (Tara Lincoln | Daily Utah Chronicle)

SlutWalk in Photos

By Tara Lincoln April 4, 2017

On Tuesday, April 4, more than 200 students at the University of Utah gathered at the Marriott Library Plaza to participate in the third annual "SlutWalk." The event included a keynote speech from...

"Through Her Eyes" Gallery, "Through Her Words" Panel: Voices of Utah's Female Journalists

“Through Her Eyes” Gallery, “Through Her Words” Panel: Voices of Utah’s Female Journalists

By Erin West March 26, 2017

“Through Her Eyes” is a collaborative art exhibit celebrating Utah’s female photojournalists. It features shots from 20 photographers taken on assignment in Utah, accompanied by a text caption for...