News Clips | August 1-15, 2025

Brigham Young University and the University of Utah have a fierce rivalry, and recently released rankings of the country’s best colleges aren’t going to do anything to settle it.

By majority vote, appropriations subcommittee gives a thumbs-up to budget reallocations happening across the state’s public higher education institutions.

The University of Utah buzzed with students and their families as they moved in over the past weekend. Many students said their goodbyes to their families and childhood homes.

University of Utah geologists study reed-covered mounds that mark locations where ancient groundwater emerges at the surface.

The Trump administration last week unveiled its "AI Action Plan," revoking former President Joe Biden's signature AI guardrails.

Mitzi Montoya, U provost, and Ruchi Watson, managing director and CEO of the Goff Strategic Leadership Institute, are among the women leaders who are transforming Utah through innovation, advocacy and service.

In a new study, researchers found strong evidence that exposure to industrial pollution during pregnancy can shape a grandchild’s neurodevelopment.

Millions of people—every time they drive into Utah, fly into Salt Lake City or watch one particular Wes Anderson movie, have seen his artwork, but likely few know his name. It’s David Meikle, and many of his paintings are distinctive red rock landscapes of Utah and the Southwest.

The measles surge in the U.S. started small early this year and, by the summer, eventually grew to the most cases the country has seen in 33 years.

Researchers from the University of Utah took a deeper look at the 2020 wildfire season along the West Coast to see how they can impact our air quality.

Power costs are rising nationwide—and could get even higher for some amid an explosion in data centers powering AI and more.

The school is pushing to have more students living on campus—and says the off-campus buildings in Salt Lake City were aging and unpopular.

It’s move-in week at the University of Utah and the campus is welcoming 5,600 students who were settling into the dorms on Friday, many for the very first time.

Dr. Ben Abbott was out for a mountain bike ride when he saw the dust storm. He pulled out his phone and took video of Saturday's storm that blew into the Provo-Orem area.

Utah's Great Salt Lake, a bastion of natural history spanning some 8,000 years, has fallen prey to the profound alterations driven by human hands over the past two centuries, a recent University of Utah study highlights.

Researchers with University of Utah Health are raising concerns about the side effects of the popular weight-loss medication, Ozempic.

Elimination of scores of programs are part of school’s strategic reinvestment plan ordered by Legislature.