News Clips | October 17-30, 2023

A study of bones held in a Cleveland museum reveals a new side to the pandemic’s story—and a new way to think about pandemics to come.

Headcounts at most of Utah’s state-supported colleges and universities increased over the previous year but Snow College experienced an 8% decline, according to the Utah System of Higher Education.

Rather than tiptoe around the inevitability of artificial intelligence's creep into society, the University of Utah has launched a $100 million research initiative that will dig into ways AI can be used responsibly to tackle societal issues.

Incoming first-year students of the University of Utah will be guaranteed on-campus housing if they apply before the May 3 deadline, according to a news release.

The program has helped more than 200 former gang members since 2006, Salt Lake County Sheriff Rosie Rivera said.

Students at the University of Utah will have to “slow their roll” when getting around campus on bikes, scooters, skateboards, or golf carts. In a new safety update, the University administration has implemented a 10-mile-per-hour speed limit.

The Utah Bionic Leg was just named one of the best inventions of 2023 by TIME Magazine.

The University of Utah’s two public broadcasting stations announced this week they will purchase the Salt Lake City independent news station KCPW-FM 88.3.

Utah has a plethora of locations to enjoy art of all kinds.

South Carolina GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham twice referenced the deal in a committee hearing.

“We’re trying to build like a car,” the founder of one modular-home maker said at a Utah housing affordability summit this week.

Winning athletic teams raise a university’s profile and might contribute to enrollment boosts.

The Department of Adult Protective Services states that only one in every 23 domestic violence situations among seniors over the age of 55 are reported to law enforcement.

The Salt Lake Tribune compiled a list of 262 books removed across 17 school districts. One literature professor asks: “What are we going to be left with?”

Take advantage of the mild weather and get out to enjoy some community events near you this weekend! There's plenty going on across the entire state.

In the 1970s, Dr. Ron Coleman—a retired history professor at the University of Utah—was presented with a huge opportunity.

If UDOT and the state can’t see their way clear to do something as simple and basic as this, what hope can we have in their ability to address truly complicated problems?

These are the kinds of Saturdays Ryan Lufkin looks forward to. “I need a spoon,” he said as he looked over the pork he had just finished preparing from a full pig. “Our temperature was perfect.”

The ESPN program took over campus this week ahead of a Pac-12 showdown between Oregon and Utah.

October 22, 2018, is one of three days the Utah Athletics community will sadly never forget. That was the day track and field star Lauren McCluskey was brutally murdered nearly five years ago by an ex-boyfriend after numerous pleas for help were ignored.

Wood Innovation Grants support timber industry, healthy forests.

Last month, Utah Business partnered with Dentons Durham Jones Pinegar to host a roundtable featuring leaders in Utah’s energy sector. Moderated by Harry Hansen, deputy director of the Utah Office of Energy Development, they discussed sustainability, affordability, regulations, research and more. Here are a few highlights from the conversation.

Two Utah universities have issued a public statement as violence has escalated in the Middle East; others have responded internally.

Amos Guiora commutes between Utah and Israel. Since the beginning of the most recent example of Israel-Hamas conflict; Guiora has been located just outside of Jerusalem.

Born in Utah to Palestinian parents, Nora Abu-Dan is no stranger to conflict in the Middle East and the sorrows that go with it. She’s been heartbroken and upset before “but nothing has ever happened to this magnitude in my lifetime.”

Utah is growing and getting older as it becomes more racially and ethnically diverse, says a new study released Oct. 9 by the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute at the University of Utah.

The quest to find—and save—more water is nothing new for people living in the southwest Utah desert.

Utah’s latest storm front continues to work its way through the state on Thursday morning, bringing snow closer to the valley floor. Users across social media took to sharing photos and videos of the flurries as they fell onto Utah’s mountains.