The recently released U.S. News & World Report's 2010 edition of "America's Best Graduate Schools" has the U's S.J. Quinney College of Law at No. 45, up six spots from the previous year.

The U's academics were spared a devastating budget cut during the Utah legislative session.

U students voting in ASUU elections said they wanted a Revolution, rather than being taken where they needed to GO.

A natural gas leak forced police to evacuate all buildings on lower campus for several hours and shut down power on March 24 for fear of explosions caused by cars or power sources.

Students gathered in the Union Crimson View erupted in celebration as CNN news anchors announced Sen. Barack Obama as the winner of the 2008 presidential election8212;making him the 44th president of the United States and the first black president in the history of the nation.

Instead of increasing enrollment at the U School of Medicine to offset the state's growing physician shortage, the number of students will decrease by 20 percent in the fall.

The David Eccles School of Business received a $23 million bond from the Utah Legislature on March 12, hours before the legislative session ended for the year, allowing construction of a new business building to begin immediately.

The U.S. Attorney's Office indicted U student Tim DeChristopher for violation of a federal act for bidding on land to protect it from oil drilling.

DNA testing confirmed that the body Washington County Sheriff's deputies found in a torched car near Zion National Park on April 2 is Zach Ruble, a freshman in bioengineering at the U, the third in a series of deaths that might be connected.

An amended proposal to increase student fees by $2.50 per semester to fund sustainability projects passed the ASUU General Assembly and Senate on March 26 and went before the Utah State Board of Regents for approval March 27.