News Clips | January 5-11, 2023

New building and scholarships are coming to the John and Marcia Price College of Engineering.

He grew up as a stats geek. As a kid he'd go to Utes football games with his dad and grandmother and fill notepads charting yards-per-carry by the running backs, passing yardage, where passes were being thrown on the field and other arcane data. He was into analytics long before anyone called it analytics.

The University of Utah announced Tuesday that it is planning to build 5,000 additional student housing units over the next several years—a number that would double its current amount of on-campus housing.

Smoking doesn’t just ruin your health. It can also burn a nasty hole through your wallet. Tobacco use accounts for nearly half a million deaths in the U.S. each year and is the leading cause of lung cancer, according to the American Lung Association.

University of Utah's Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute released a projection on population growth of school- and college- age groups in the state over the next 40 years

Why don’t humans have nearly as much hair as other mammals? From mice and horses to orangutans and chimpanzees, all other mammals display impressive coats of fur or hair, so why not us?

Antennas have been found dotted in the foothills around Salt Lake City, Utah. Officials, which have begun slowly removing the systems, do not know who is behind the antennas - nor what they are meant to be used for.

It’s lost 73% of its water and is unable to sustain some wildlife – and could soon negatively affect human health.

Public schools are online just as much as their students, it seems, with profiles across social media.

Every Friday, every week, for the past three years, young climate activists have staged a silent protest in front of the Utah State Capitol. No matter the weather, they are there—on the off chance that someone in power might take notice.

Understanding what different medications do to fight seasonal illnesses can help you find the right treatment.

The tragedy that left eight dead in early January in an Enoch murder-suicide shines a light on an ongoing problem in Utah.