Recycling on campus has increased significantly from last year and this year, the Residence Halls could lead the way.

Sen. Barack Obama and Gov. Sarah Palin are no longer on the tip of every tongue in the nation's Capitol. Instead, Merrill Lynch and Lehman Brothers are the talk of the town.

With words like "crisis" and "crunch" used to describe current global financial markets, it can sometimes sound as if the economic sky were falling. And for U finance majors, a dwindling job market and shaky economy has some students rethinking their postgraduate plans.

New GPS technology in campus shuttles tracks the buses' locations in real time and shows students when they will arrive.

Nationally, women account for half of all medical school applicants, but in 2007, only 30 percent of the U's applicants were women.

After legal disputes, fraternity Pi Kappa Alpha will be moving into the former Delta Delta Delta sorority house within the next few weeks. Some of the excitement of the move has been curbed by complicated legal issues stemming from the Tri Deltas.

USU wrapped up its fifth consecutive Bleed Red blood drive title Saturday, beating the U by 181 units. The U's only win came during the inaugural blood drive in 2003.

The fencing being put up for the Redfest concert Thursday fell on a student Monday morning.

What started as a single broadcasting screen in the S. J. Quinney College of Law has expanded to new flat screen TVs in buildings across campus, including the Language and Communication Building, Union, the University Campus Store and others.

Kathryn Cowles, a creative writing doctorate student and teacher at the U, recently won the 2008 Dorothy Brunsman Poetry Prize from Bear Star Press for her poetry collection Eleanor, Eleanor, not your real name.