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Migos perform at VELD Music Festival in Toronto in August 2017.
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Migos Set to Perform at 2018 Redfest

By Abrielle Fulwider April 2, 2018

ASUU announced that this year’s Redfest will feature Migos, with Aminé as the opening act. Redfest is an annual concert planned by Associated Students of the University of Utah (ASUU), which is held...

Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox speaks to the Worlds Apart: Assessing Utahs Urban and Rural Divide Honors PRAXIS Lab at the University of Utah.

Lieutenant Governor to Speak at Event Exploring Urban-Rural Divide in Higher Education

By Jacqueline Mumford, Managing Editor March 31, 2018

The University of Utah Honors College PRAXIS Lab "Worlds Apart: Assessing Utah's Urban and Rural Divide" is hosting a Rural Day at 5 p.m. on April 2 at the Hinckley Institute of Politics. The event...

Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon at Marriott Library Increases Woman Representation on the Site

Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon at Marriott Library Increases Woman Representation on the Site

By Emily Anderson March 29, 2018

Women in the arts have been chronically dismissed from conversations about history, both as participants and topics, according to Jessica Colbert, who is a librarian at the University of Utah’s Marriott...

(Photo by: Justin Prather / Daily Utah Chronicle)

Investigation After U Student’s Death Finds Serious Issues Within Physics and Astronomy Department

By Elise Vandersteen Bailey, Investigative Coordinator March 28, 2018

The death by suicide of a Ph.D. candidate in the University of Utah's Physics and Astronomy Department in October 2017 sparked an independent legal investigation into the student’s experience at the...

Chris Hill speaks during his retirement press conference at the Jon M. Huntsman Center in Salt Lake City, UT on Monday, March 26, 2018

Hill Retires as Utah Athletic Director

By Kim Brenneisen March 26, 2018

With his wife by his side, University of Utah athletic director Chris Hill announced his retirement Monday after serving at the helm of the athletics department for 31 years. Inside the Huntsman Center...

Students walking to and from class on campus at the University of Utah on Wednesday, November 16, 2016

Raising the Voices of Graduate Students

By Jacqueline Mumford, Managing Editor March 26, 2018

A group of graduate students is working to create a graduate assembly that would incorporate and involve more graduate students' voices in the University of Utah's governance process. Graduate students...

Vice President of Student Relations Xandra Pryor, President Connor Morgan and Vice President of University Relations Maggie Gardner took office on April 25, 2018.

(Courtesy of ASUU)

RISE Party Claims ASUU Executive Branch Uncontested

By Jacqueline Mumford, Managing Editor March 21, 2018

Between March 12 and March 15, students elected the RISE Party to be the new administration of the Associated Students of the University of Utah (ASUU). Approximately 1,626 students cast their ballots...

Consortium for Dark Skies Studies Reaches New Heights

Consortium for Dark Skies Studies Reaches New Heights

By Jacqueline Mumford, Managing Editor March 19, 2018

Many Salt Lake City residents can’t remember the last time they saw the Milky Way or even the stars. The Consortium for Dark Skies Studies (CDSS) at the University of Utah is the first academic center...

Flying Cheap Out of SLC

Flying Cheap Out of SLC

By Cara MacDonald March 17, 2018

Many students have planned elaborate spring break trips that require expensive airline tickets. Jaron Smith, a graduate student at the University of Utah, and his friend Paul Peterson, have made it their...

Stephanie Lechert (left), historic archeologist, and lead principal investigator Kelly Beck (right), SWCA, show samples from the archeological site under Presidents Circle at The University of Utah where human remains were previously discovered in Salt Lake City, Utah on Thursday, Feb. 22, 2018.

Redeeming the Forgotten Cadavers of Presidents Circle

By Mackenzie McDermott March 14, 2018

Charles Shepherd, a historical architect for the University of Utah, was scouting a construction site in April, 2016, when what he thought was a stone peeking out of the dirt turned out to be a human skull. Nearly...