The federal government will be inspecting the U's animal research labs in a surprise visit to find out if its employees are mistreating dogs, kittens, mice, monkeys and other animals.

The annual Paws 'N Claws Benefit was held Thursday at the Eccles Institute of Human Genetics to help raise funds for the U's Adoption of Retired Research Animals, which helps care for retired research dogs and cats and find them responsible owners.

Nurses Natalie Manolakis and Karen Nye cut down linen usage to save University Hospital more than $400,000 in 2009, said Richard Lee, director of support services for U Hospital, in a statement.

U ski and snowboarding nuts might have something to be scared about8212;protesters say a proposed coal mine in Alaska would shorten Utah's winters.

Universities are homes to secret societies8212;Yale's Skull and Bones, Dickinson's Raven's Claw, Cornell's Quill and Dagger8212;but between the sneakers, sweat and slam dunks, the U's hasn't become so infamous.

The Utah Museum of Natural History hosted a lecture Thursday called "Dinosaurs of the Lost Continent" at Judge Memorial High School in Salt Lake City, featuring Sampson, a U paleontologist and rising star in the dinosaur field.

Tiffany Benton, a senior in international studies, is one of the five finalists for Hershey's "I'm a Big Fan" contest to find America's biggest college football fanatic.

The U department of physics and astronomy held the "first light" symposium Wednesday, celebrating the first photographs taken by the department's new telescope.

U researchers are still piecing together an incomplete picture of the world of dinosaurs, but tonight, one of them unveils what little more humans know.

Following an eight-month undercover investigation, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has filed complaints with the National Institutes of Health and the U.S. Department of Agriculture against U research labs for violating federal law in its mistreatment of research animals.