The ceremonial song "Hail to the Chief" that followed President Barack Obama's oath of office was inaudible in Kingsbury Hall on Tuesday morning over the thunderous applause from audience members who gathered to watch the inaugural address of the 44th president.

Students waving hand-held signs and touting 20-foot banners took to the streets on Martin Luther King Jr. Day to honor the life of the reverend as an international symbol for peace and human rights.

After being spread out among five buildings for the past few years, the faculty in the department of geology and geophysics now has a single building to call its own.

In Washington D.C., U interns with the Hinckley Institute of Politics had the chance to be among those packed into hotels, buses, sidewalks and streets to see the inauguration of the country's first black president.

Today's inauguration's theme will be "A New Birth of Freedom," chosen by the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies. It is designed to also celebrate the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birthday and to invoke the spirit of Lincoln into the inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama.

A new U study suggests that researchers can save thousands of lives by using a cholesterol-treatment drug for patients with blood vessel disorders that cause sometimes-fatal seizures and strokes.

A TRAX train hit a pedestrian Sunday night at the intersection of 400 South and State Street

as long as she could remember, Cristin Zimmer has been molding and structuring pieces of clay into works of art. A graduate student in the U's art department, Zimmer has always had a love for ceramics.

The program is designed to "provide undergraduates an interdisciplinary academic path toward careers in the digital entertainment industry with experience in both computer science and the arts."

The electrical engineering graduate student tried to make a left turn from North Campus Drive onto Central Campus Drive when a red van attempting to go straight struck her Honda head-on, according to U Campus Police.