News Clips | January 6, 2022

First Great Salt Lake Summit strives for solutions.

On a recent Wednesday morning in December, Tess Posthumus drove about 30 minutes from her home in Amsterdam to the beach, zipped up her wet suit, grabbed her surfboard and headed into the ocean.

The former head of the Utah Department of Public Safety has been chosen to become the University of Utah's new chief safety officer.

This newly discovered mouse-butterfly interaction suggests that western monarch decline could disrupt ecosystems in unanticipated ways.

Creating a more diverse campus must include fostering a sense of belonging, writes DEI administrator Mary Ann Villarreal.

Tales of buried treasure have filled our cultural lexicon since the beginning.

On a cold and rainy Wednesday in January, a small group of University of Utah students spent hours of their winter break transferring roughly 400 medical devices from a storage facility in West Valley City, and then loading them into two small trucks.

Utah’s congressional delegation ran the gamut of Republican responses to former President Donald Trump’s all-out effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election results that ultimately led to a deadly assault on the U.S. Capitol one year ago.

Doctors say to protect against severe illness from the omicron variant, it is important to get vaccinated and get boosted.

The Chief Privacy Officer for Utah public education says that since a whistleblower’s lawsuit outed researchers at the University of Utah for overstepping student data privacy laws, things have improved.

Thursday’s record-breaking case count is part of a “dire” environment, hospital administrators said.

Hospitalizations have risen sharply just as staff members have fallen ill.