Students and community members gathered in the main auditorium of the Salt Lake City Public Library on Friday night to hear author Christopher Benson and a panel of three other speakers discuss the role of the media in the case of 14-year-old Emmett Till.

Forty years and more than 30,000 students later, the anatomy program has expanded to seven courses and laboratories for students preparing for medical school, future graduate students and others interested in the intricacies of human dissection.

On the eve of the Chinese New Year, people from all over the Salt Lake Valley joined to celebrate the coming of the year of the ox in style Saturday night.

Larry Miller will lead a state ethics commission along with Kirk Jowers, director of the
U's Hinckley Institute of Politics, Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. announced Thursday.

U neighbors, alumni and students questioned the overall impact of new campus development projects on the environment, global warming and the flow of traffic in the neighborhoods surrounding the university at a community forum held Thursday night.

The U will hold three community workshops with Inland American Communities to discuss how to develop the mixed-use development project, which will be built adjacent to Rice-Eccles Stadium, where the parking lot is located.

As the economy has fallen into a state of recession, budget cuts from the Utah Legislature are starting to hit home for smaller departments such as UCard services at the U.

The U received a $5 million grant to study environmental and genetic factors that cause birth defects, despite the fact that other institutions participating in the study lost funding.

In an effort to make use of resources right in the heart of the LDS religion's headquarters, the U is now offering a fellowship for graduate or postgraduate students to research aspects of the LDS Church and its impact on society.

With environmental crime on the rise, offenders still get off easier than other criminals. This trend, which was discussed Thursday at a symposium held by the S.J. Quinney College of Law, is unsettling to environmentalists and prosecutors alike.