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Students and community members watch a previous debate at the Hinckley Institute during the 2018 election season. Courtesy of Brooke Doner/Hinckley Institute.

Love, McAdams Debate Highlights Negativity in an Already Contentious Race

By Nelson Lotz October 18, 2018

  As ballots were mailed out across the state this week, Rep. Mia Love, Republican, and Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams, Democrat, faced off in a combative debate at Salt Lake Community College....

Alumni Come Home

Alumni Come Home

By Muhammed Alabdullah October 17, 2018

University of Utah alumni from 1978 and before will make their way back to campus soon. The Emeritus Alumni Reunion and 2018 reception will be held during homecoming week on Tuesday, Oct. 16 at 5:30 p.m....

Heather, Debbie and Logan at the presentation. Photo courtesy of Debbie Jorde.

U Medical Students Learn About the Human Side of Medicine

By Christina Giardinelli October 17, 2018

  “The first thing that I will tell you about today’s presentation is that it will not be on the exam,” said Dr. Lynn Jorde when addressing a classroom of first-year medical students on Oct....

Courtesy of Dr. Hotaling.

Study Shows Sperm Count Decline, U Doctor Says This is Not a Spermageddon

By Christina Giardinelli October 15, 2018

  Two studies presented at the Scientific Congress of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine on Oct. 9th showed a general decrease in sperm count in a population of both sperm donors and men...

L-R: Dr. Norman Waitzman,  Rylee Curtis, Dr. Philip Singer, Dr. Colleen Grogan. Photo courtesy of ABU Education Fund.

Consensus at Proposition 3 Panel

By Nelson Lotz October 14, 2018

  Proposition 3 is meant to expand Utahn access to Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act (also known as the ACA or Obamacare) by allowing people who make up to 138 percent of the federal poverty...

Photo courtesy of Sarah Shebek/University of Utah

U Professor Awarded Journalism Research Fellowship at Oslo Met University

By Christina Giardinelli October 14, 2018

  University of Utah professor, Avery E. Holton, has been selected as one of the seven international scholars who will serve as a Journalism Research Fellow at Oslo Met University. As part of the fellowship...

University of Utah School of Medicine where Lea Kae Roberts is employed. Daily Chronicle photo archives.

U Employee Reported Missing, Found Safe in Southern Utah

By Shaelyn Barber October 11, 2018

  The 42-year-old Lea Kae Roberts was found safe at a homeless shelter in southern Utah early in the morning of Tuesday, Oct. 2. Roberts had been gone since the previous Saturday night, and a missing...

A stack of formerly banned books available at the Marriott Library. 

(Photo by: Justin Prather | The Utah Chronicle).

Banned Books are Not History

By Mackenzie McDermott October 11, 2018

The days of banned and challenged books are not over. This is the message the University of Utah’s J. Willard Marriott Library is trying to share. In honor of Banned Books Week, the library hosted a...

Joseph Stiglitz keynote speaker at the University of Utah on Thursday, September 27. (Photo by Cassandra Palor | The Utah Chronicle)

World Renowned Economists and Nobel Prize Winner Speak at the U

By Christina Giardinelli October 10, 2018

  Joseph E. Stiglitz, a world-renowned economist and recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences and the John Bates Clark Medal, spoke on Sep. 27 at The Great Polarization, a conference...

Students and community members protest the Kavanaugh nomination

U Students Join Nation Wide Protests Against Kavanaugh Confirmation

By Christina Giardinelli October 8, 2018

  As thousands rallied outside the capital in Washington, the University of Utah’s chapter of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) rallied on Thursday evening outside the Wallace Bennett Federal...