Most students get a part-time job working behind a counter or a register to help pay their college bills8212;but not this one.

English professor Anne Jamison was planning to teach two upper-division English courses this summer but both were cut because of financial restraints.

Inland American, the developer chosen for the mixed-use development project planned for the parking lot west of Rice-Eccles Stadium, picked students' brains last week in exchange for some pizza, soda and $50.

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.

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.

Finals Week kicks off Friday, and students are already stressing out. Some students are practically moving into the library to maximize their study time.

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.

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.

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.