Skip to Main Content
The University of Utah's Independent Student Voice

The Daily Utah Chronicle

The University of Utah's Independent Student Voice

The Daily Utah Chronicle

The University of Utah's Independent Student Voice

The Daily Utah Chronicle

Local News

(Photo by Chris Ayers)

Millennials Don’t Fit “Me Me Me” Stereotypes

By Julianne Skrivan February 3, 2015

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]   Selfish. Lazy. Technology-crazed. Those are just some of the adjectives people use to stereotype the millennial generation. RELATED: FIVE WAYS MILLENNIALS...

Millennials Use #SocialMedia to Complain, Talk About Celebs

Millennials Use #SocialMedia to Complain, Talk About Celebs

By Stefanie Arevalo February 3, 2015

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]   “TGIF cuz I’m so rdy 2 prty #rage #nosleep #youngwildandfree.” If you can understand that, you’re probably a millennial. This generation, generally...

(Photo by Kiffer Creveling)

Five Ways Millennials Have Changed the U

By Julianne Skrivan February 3, 2015

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Life at the U today is different than it was in the 1950s, ‘60s and ‘70s. Radio has been replaced by flat-screen TVs, and fashion has changed from poodle skirts to...

(Photo by Kiffer Creveling)

Millennials Sometimes Mismanage Money

By Taylor Almond February 3, 2015

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]   Millennials are in a seemingly impossible financial crisis. Overcoming these circumstances seems impossible, but Matt Hulme, a junior at BYU, may have found...

(Photo Courtesy of Marvin 101)

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...

(Daily Utah Chronicle File Photo)

LDS Church Announces Support for Anti-Discrimination Bill

February 2, 2015

  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced Tuesday its support for legislation that would provide statewide protection against housing and employment discrimination based on sexual...

(Photo by Kiffer Creveling)

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...

(Photo Courtesy of the U Department of Chemistry)

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...

((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...