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.

Crimson Nights is starting off the school year tonight with an Oasis beach theme.

The distance education program is expanding this year, offering more interactive classes. Each class will have monitors and microphones to connect instructors to designated student sites throughout the state using the Internet. Instructors will be able to display PowerPoint presentations and students will be able to interact with each other.

The Utah State Board of Regents gave final approval to the U's Campus Master Plan during its regular meeting Sept. 5, apparently disregarding a request from Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker that the approval be delayed.

The ASUU student advocacy board will offer a series of monthly forums this year which will cover issues pertinent to students' lives, such as health care, taxes and voter protection.

Get your running shoes out because it's that time of year again. The Susan Sandoval Foundation for Ovarian Cancer is hosting its second annual race Saturday.

Frank Thrower and Steven Hobbs, both 66 years old, walked into the first floor of the Moran Eye Center on Wednesday at 7:40 p.m. with a wheelchair and picked up a computer from the front information desk, according to a police report. Thrower sat down in the wheelchair with the computer in his lap while Hobbs wheeled him out of the building.

The Utah Museum of Fine Arts is currently recruiting for its fall docent training programs. Docents are students, as well as members from the community, who volunteer their time and give tours of the museum's exhibits.

Visiting Chicago might not reveal the complete life story of Barack Obama, but viewing a few scenes of his past does reveal some insight into the Democratic presidential candidate.

The new UTA Ed-Passes are here...finally.

The UCard Office, Commuter Services and the University Campus Store are now issuing the passes to students, faculty and staff.