The post-punk revival band, Franz Ferdinand, visits Salt Lake City with their greatest hits tour, “Hits to the Head.” Thirty minutes before the show has begun, people already fill The Complex theater, waiting for their beloved band, Franz Ferdinand, to make their entrance. Franz Ferdinand was part of the post-punk revival in the early 2000s. […]
Brandi Carlile’s performance with Celisse and the Indigo Girls was an astonishing night of musical reminiscence. Brandi Carlile made a stop on her “In These Silent Days” tour at Salt Lake’s Vivint Arena on Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022. Alongside opening acts like the feisty singer-guitarist Celisse and the classic Indigo Girls, Carlile’s ensemble created a […]
The Spectrum QSA at UVU hosted a Queer Prom on Saturday, April 2. This prom was intended to provide queer college students an opportunity to experience prom in a way that validates their identities and promotes authentic expression. Drew Cannon, theater education major and president of Spectrum, has been working on making Queer Prom a […]
*This article contains potentially sensitive or triggering content. Dr. Ayanna De’Vante Spencer of the University of Connecticut presented on “Beyond Believing Survivors: Epistemic Oppression and the Criminalization of Black Girl Survivors in the US” in Utah Valley University Philosophy Department’s new series, the Inclusive Knowledge Theory & Activism Series on Tuesday. Her talk addressed the […]
The Center for the Study of Ethics at Utah Valley University and the J. Bonner Ritchie Peace Conference series partnered to hold a conference on Healing Conversations. The conference featured international peace and mediation leaders, “to address one of the most pressing questions of our time,” according to the program’s website. “How do we heal […]
Speakers came together on campus to convene on the importance of free speech on college campuses. Over the course of three sessions, the Center for Constitutional Studies hosted speakers from across the country who spoke on March 24, to students on a variety of topics. Including the history of free speech on campuses, the importance […]
Students and faculty came together in a Clarke Building classroom to hear from speakers about the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian conflict. The panel discussion on March 16, heard from several panelists which included esteemed professors such as Dr. Frederick White, professor of Russian and integrated studies, Dr. Baktybek Abdrisaev, former UN ambassador from Kyrgyzstan and professor of […]
UVUSA Senate Speaker series invited Dan Price Thursday, Feb. 3. Price is the founder and CEO of Gravity Payments, a credit card processing company. He is an entrepreneur who found a better way to do business by putting people over profits. According to UVUSA Price was born and raised in Idaho. While at Seattle Pacific […]
Student members of the international honor society, Phi Theta Kappa, hosted a food drive this past February that sought to help a local charity restock its food stores. In collaboration with an American Fork and Spanish Fork charity called Tabitha’s Way, a charity that works to alleviate local food insecurity, PTK members of the UVU […]
As an addition to The Roots of Knowledge Speaker Series at Utah Valley University, Laurie Toro, director of faculty development, gave a presentation titled “Fostering Educational Equity by Sustaining Roots of Knowing and Culture.” In this presentation she addressed six different types of knowledge and the importance of using them in unity. Toro utilized the […]