The UVU Korean Club shared their culture, food and friendship with the student body for the second year. Students filled Centre Stage on Monday, Feb. 27, making a crowd of over 400 people for the second annual Korean Culture Night hosted by the UVU Korean Culture club. The event was a combined activity with […]
Students who care about the environment have joined together to bring environmental awareness to campus. Utah gives its residents access to several national parks and monuments, but many students may not be aware of the environmental issues that affects Utah’s nature. Current President of the Environmental Awareness Club, Andrea Sanchez, is one student […]
On Wednesday, Feb. 29, the International Service Abroad hosted its first “Rollerskating for a Cause” fundraiser at Classic Skating in Orem. ISA pre-sold 50 tickets through Campus Connection, yet anticipated more than that to attend the two-hour event. ISA is planning to utilize all the proceeds from its ‘70s-themed skating night to sponsor a […]
Mozart’s Requiem performed to honor the memory of a lost daughter. The mood was somber as the music filled the Covey Center on Monday, Feb. 27. The chorales sang the Latin words as the musicians played the complex notes written over 200 years ago. The Chamber Orchestra, Masterworks Chorale and the Wasatch Chorale, under […]
Amidst familiar romantic 90s pop ballads and an animated crowd, nine young women clad in little black dresses and colorful feather boas paraded across the stage at Ragan Theatre, welcoming the audience to the Miss Africa Utah pageant. The second annual event, held on Sat., Feb. 25, and founded by UVU senior Gloria Kajo, […]
At the 26th Annual Expanding Your Horizons conference, girls from grades 6-12 are encouraged not only to pursue higher education, but also to become interested in non-traditional careers for women. Before 1848, women were not allowed to attend colleges and universities. By the end of the Civil War in 1865, women began pursuing higher […]
UVU Heavy Metal class taught by Stephen Fullmer, Ph.D., teaches students music, literary analysis and student engagement. Professor Stephen Fullmer, Ph.D., teaches a class at UVU called “Heavy Metal.” Students say the class is much more than meets the ear. Jennifer Hill, a UVU student who is taking Heavy Metal for her third […]
Electricity may be a plentiful and widely used resource, but that will likely not always be the case. The stadium-style basement classroom in the Pope Science Building was filled with over 30 students and faculty as technical expert Rand Crafts of Intermountain Power Service Corporation talked about the power plant in Delta and the […]
“He probably played football in high school,” was all I thought about the big, tall dude who always sat in the same desk in CS 411. With a month left of the “7 Habits of Highly Effective People” class he applied habit one: Be Proactive. Flattered that he texted me promptly after getting my […]
Eighteen months ago, UVU’s Alumni Student Life Intern Erin Fleming witnessed a miracle: a life brought into this world when everything confirmed the infant’s death. Many complications afflicted the pregnancy of Fleming’s niece, but she was carried to term and survived. To Fleming, her niece is the most beautiful person, and she has Down syndrome. […]