News Clips | January 3-11, 2024

Gardner, who served the university from 1973 to 1983, is credited with elevating the U.’s academic prominence.

Aspiring to become the best and fittest version of yourself is easy. Actually achieving that goal is much more difficult, and it requires a consistently active lifestyle.

The University of Utah will no longer use diversity statements in hiring, The Salt Lake Tribune reported. The paper shared a screenshot of the email President Taylor Randall sent announcing the move to all university leaders involved in hiring new employees.

A new study has found 12% of Park City’s workforce lives in town, a consequence of high housing costs and a glut of short-term rentals.

What makes a city, state or region branding itself a "fintech hub" a true fintech hub, beyond the name?

Some academics have publicly announced resignations, but evidence of a mass faculty exodus from states like Florida is thin, at least so far. Media hyped a brain drain regardless.

A new report showed the share of tech jobs in what are known as "superstar" cities such as the Bay Area, Boston, Los Angeles and New York has dipped in recent years, while it has been growing in other cities including Salt Lake City.

On Monday, Jan. 15, America and Salt Lake City will once again be working to honor civil rights icon Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and ABC4 will be broadcasting the 40th MLK Day Rally and March in his honor.

The school has said it doesn’t use diversity statements as originally described by Utah Gov. Spencer Cox. But it will remove anything similar from its hiring process moving forward.

University of Utah President Taylor has convened 14-member Viewpoint Representation and Expression Task Force to study these issues and to make recommendations.

Utah’s consumer sentiment rose 8.4% in Dec. 2023, according to the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute. The number signals “growing economic optimism,” according to Phil Dan, chief economist at the Gardner Institute.

While overdose remains the leading cause of injury death in the state, Utah has reached a milestone of more than 10,000 reports of saved lives through the use of the now-indispensable overdose-reversal drug Naloxone.

Likely little this session, but the air quality will still probably be better in 2034 than it was in 2002.

Wall Street Journal/College Pulse 2024 rankings considered graduation rates and graduates’ salaries as 70% of a university’s total score.

CRISPR feels a little like evolutionary magic. Short for “clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats”, it is a technology scientists use to target specific DNA in living organisms. CRISPR has its pros and cons, and Utah is at the forefront of its research.

FOX 13 News recently reported on some legislation to be introduced in the upcoming session of the Utah State Legislature that would address some of the solutions identified in the report.

Everyone in the long run loses when communities lack affordable housing.

A study performed at Stockholm University found that hitting the snooze button had no negative impacts on cognitive function throughout the day. However, a University of Utah professor said that chronically hitting the snooze button is a sign that you need more rest.

The number of people who died on Utah roads fell again in 2023 after a large spike over the past three years. But an alarming rise in road rage cases also emerged that Utah transportation and safety leaders say they want to eliminate in 2024.

As we all know, the inversion can create many challenges for at risk-communities. A new program is aimed at helping provide better air quality for Utah families inside their homes.