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NHMU nature exhibit features hands-on activities

August 1, 2013

Visitors to the Natural History Museum of Utah can now experience what it is like to be in a tornado alongside the usual dinosaur fossils on display. Nature Unleashed is a traveling exhibit produced by...

Parkour group provides exercise, fun

August 1, 2013

Some students come to campus to study math, English or history. Some come up to learn parkour. Sean Keil, the founder of Renaissance Movement Parkour, a group that teaches a parkour class on campus, said...

Study shows grassier diets for early humans

July 1, 2013

Four new studies led by the U inspect the diet of our human ancestors, predicting that roughly 3.5 million years ago, humans expanded their diet from leafy vegetables and fruits to tropical grasses and...

Five O’Clock Shadow Monday – 24 June

June 28, 2013

  Today on the 5 O'Clock Shadow, Paula Deen, the Queen of Southern Cooking a Southern Belle is being sued for racial slurs. Twinkie's find their way back into our lives as we make room for them...

Five O’Clock Shadow Wednesday – 19 June

June 24, 2013

On today's a 16-year-old boy gets rescued from American Fork Canyon after being lost. Also a woman goes face to face with a thief who threaten to injure her children if she did not give her money. More...

Man pleads guilty to series of campus gropings

June 18, 2013

A Utah man pleaded guilty earlier this month to charges stemming from a series of campus gropings in 2011. Gary Winston Fotheringham pleaded guilty on June 7 to three counts of attempted forcible sexual...

Dorm first in Utah to be certified as sustainable

June 18, 2013

By Ian Smith A dorm at the U was the first in the state to be certified as sustainable, but students are having mixed reactions. The Donna Garff Marriott Honors Residential Scholars Community has recently...

Campus endures constant construction

June 18, 2013

Kevin Tao Staff Writer First-time visitors of the U may think they are unlucky that they saw the campus during what appears to be a period of heavy construction. In reality, according to the Facilities...

Pricey books cause students to search for other options

June 17, 2013

Claire Thixton Staff Writer According to data released by Student Public Interest Research Groups (PIRGs), textbook wholesale prices have raised at least three times the rate of inflation over the last...

New mineral named after U prof

June 17, 2013

Davis Bunting Staff Writer Barbara Nash, professor of geology and geophysics, was recently honored with a newly discovered mineral, nashite, which was named after her. Joe Marty, a retired medical technologist...