When the "big one" hits, the medical school, business buildings and OSH are a few of the buildings most likely to sustain heavy damage.

Hebrew studies professor Harris Lenowitz filed a lawsuit against Humanities Dean Robert Newman on Wednesday for defaming his reputation and damaging his current and future employment opportunities.

A rancher in Washington County found U student Zach Ruble's car engulfed in flames Thursday.

A construction worker fell 30 feet at a construction site in Research Park on Monday.

Wood rats lost their favorite juniper snack more than 10,000 years ago when climate change dried the Mojave Desert, forcing them to adapt their diets. Now the projected speed of global warming could make adaptation more difficult for animals.

Using new technology, U researchers can now take tens of thousands of microscopic images and combine them into a single model in real time.

The Daily Utah Chronicle beat out other college newspapers to be named best all-around daily college newspaper from Utah, Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico.

Many of the elite population in China believe the peasant population is ignorant and incapable of understanding democracy, but a study by Yang Zhong, a political science professor at the University of Tennessee, shows just the opposite.

The U is undertaking a 10-month planning process to bring more minority support and representation to the fraternities and sororities.

Richard Wright, a noted writer and civil rights advocate, was honored by a centennial celebratory conference at the U this weekend for his novels depicting racism in the 20th century.