Joseph Kahn, deputy foreign editor of the Times and a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, will speak at the Hinckley Institute of Politics Caucus Room today at 12:30 p.m.

The Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation has selected Patrick Reimherr, a senior in economics and the U's student body president, as one of 65 students from more than 280 colleges nationwide to receive a $30,000 scholarship award for public service.

House Bill 35, which passed on the last night of the recent Utah legislative session, initially offered public university students in Utah the option of receiving a tax credit that could be used toward tuition and student fees.

The Utah Legislature gave the business school a $23 million bond to begin the process of rebuilding the Madsen and Garff buildings April 15

The U's Brazilian Studies Program is expanding through fundraisers, community support, student pressure and new Brazilian professors.

Grammy nominee Lupe Fiasco and up-and-coming artist Girl Talk will headline ASUU's spring music festival, the Grand Kerfuffle, in April.

Like many others at the U, Preethy Parthasarathy went straight for her car after she received two phone calls Tuesday afternoon telling her that she needed to evacuate the campus because of a gas leak.

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

Although administrators ordered students to evacuate campus at about 3 p.m. Tuesday after a major gas line was broken along 500 South, many were still trying to leave campus about three hours later, when the U sent out the all-clear notice.

When KUED announced in 2006 that PBS was planning a five-part television series about American Indian history called "We Shall Remain: a Native History of America and Utah," Forrest Cuch protested the fact that the Great Basin tribes would not be included.