Rinamay Lopez | Reporter | @Rinamaylopez Additional reporting by Tiffany Frandsen Utah Lieutenant Governor Spencer J. Cox attracted a big audience of students, faculty and members of the public on Tuesday morning for his keynote speech on ethics in politics to open the week-long ethics conference hosted by the Center for Ethics at Utah Valley […]
Workman Productions held their first annual Utah Music Awards on September 18 at the Covey Arts Center. Bands from all across Utah gathered to celebrate, perform and party. VanLadyLove won two of the three categories they were nominated for, including Best Pop Album and Best Album overall. “It has been a crazy amount of work […]
Utah Valley University’s Center for Constitutional Studies hosted a two-day conference on September 16-17 themed around free speech entitled “You Can’t Say That Anymore.” Panel topics ranged from free speech in the media and the workplace to free speech in universities, with question and answer sessions after each panel. Guest speakers and panelists included Eugene […]
The Utah Valley University Police Department responded to a suspicious package at 4:15 p.m. at the Woodbury Business building on UVU campus. Police moved the package to the southeast lawn and evacuated one classroom to another part of the building. The Utah County Bomb Squad responded with a robot to X-ray the package and determined […]
Raquel Cook, assistant professor at Utah Valley University, remembers being on a shaking train platform in New York City the day two airplanes hit the World Trade Centers on September 11, 2001. Cook addressed more than 400 UVU students and faculty at the 9/11 commemoration held in the courtyard that also featured remarks from UVU […]
Utah Valley University’s Human Resources department has dedicated a room in the Browning Administration building to be used as a mother’s room for nursing employees. The new room has a sink and two spaces; each space contains a table, a rocking chair and has a curtain for privacy. It is available to reserve between 8:00 […]
Friday’s rooftop concert in Provo featuring the Moth and The Flame, and opened by Coral Bones and the Brocks was the first once since students returned to school for fall semester, and they showed up in droves. Before The Moth and The Flame started playing, the two top levels of the parking garage that serves […]
On September 5, Utah Valley University held the 16th annual Alumni Awards dinner and honored six Utahns who have served or benefited the university. Recipients Barbara Barrington Jones, JoAnn B. Losee, Zach Trujillo, Clinton R. Pulver, TJ Fund and K.D. Taylor were all selected from a list of nominees by the UVU Alumni Association board. […]
On September 3, more than 400 students, faculty and members of the community gathered in the Utah Valley University grand ballroom to hear Eboo Patel speak on interfaith cooperation at the annual presidential lecture. The address began after the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the university’s new reflection center, which will provide students with a place to […]
Utah Valley University cut the ribbon on their new reflection center in the Student Life and Wellness Center. The center will provide a space for students of all religious orientations to pray, meditate, study and congregate. The center has been in the planning process for 15 years by Brian Birch, director of the Center for […]