The Utah Transit Authority performed a study last week to check the flow of riders at U TRAX stations. UTA might install more readers at U stations with heavy traffic, but the transit agency will not have the data evaluations complete until Fall Semester.

Caitlin Cahill, an architecture professor, Jannah Mather, dean of the College of Social Work, Aretha Minor, program manager at the Utah College Advising Corps and Deidre Schoenfeld, outreach and diversity coordinator for the College of Engineering will be honored at the 14th annual 2009 Equity and Diversity Awards ceremony May 29.

Top research scholars lauded Tim DeChristopher on Monday night for his fraudulent bids at a federal lands auction in December and called for more students to rise up and shake the status quo.

Gines, who received his master's degree in architecture in 2007 and co-teaches a design studio class at the U, was the most recent recipient of the Roger Bailey Traveling Fellowship, an endowment that allows one master's graduate the opportunity to travel outside the United States to study the architecture of a different culture.

Many graduate students at the U qualify for a discounted health benefits plan, with the U funding 80 percent of the cost and, in a few cases, paying the entire price for the coverage.

Lower campus went dark Thursday afternoon because a high voltage switch in a power line in Building 44, a small office building near the Skaggs Biology Building, shorted out.

Stadium and Arena Event Services closed the parking lot west of Rice-Eccles Stadium on Friday to prepare for the American Motorcyclist Association Supercross competition on Saturday.

The U Alumni Association awarded more than $34,000 in scholarships to exceptional students and honored faculty and alumni for the coming year.

Hiram Chodosh, dean of the S.J. Quinney Law Library, said he doesn't want to push away Facebook and other social networking sites. Instead, the law school has a technology initiative that is working on embracing social networks and integrating them into the classroom.

Administrators donned hard hats Wednesday to break ground for the construction of the new science, technology and research building and drive the final nail into the coffin of the U's golf course.