Monday April 15, 2013

Working in Partnership with Utah State Government

Bob Springmeyer, President Bonneville Research

Jonathan Springmeyer, Vice President Bonneville Research

Hundreds of migrating birds crash-landed at Utah’s Dugway Proving Ground overnight, apparently mistaking a parking lot in a snowstorm for water.  Al Vogel, a public affairs specialist with the U.S. Army, says these are eared grebes, a species that can’t take off from land.  Vogel says the Army’s own wildlife specialists and the Utah Department of Wildlife Resources are working to rescue the birds that survived.

"They’ll take the birds to a nearby pond on post, let ‘em rest there and then they’ll take off and continue their migration," Vogel tells KUER.

Wednesday April 10, 2013

Realizing the Dream: Equality for All

Judge William Thorne, Court of Appeals

Jesse Nix, Utah Minority Bar Association President

Grace Acosta, attorney, Scalley Reading Bates Hansen & Rasmussen

Judge Vernice Trease, 3rd District Court (Moderator)

Tuesday April 9 , 2013

The Sequester and U: An Informational Panel about the 2013 Sequestration and Its Impact on the County, State, and Students

Rick Haskell, Graduate Teaching Asst. (E), Economics Department

James Curry, Assistant Professor, Political Science Department

Co-sponosered by ASUU Government Relations

Work resumes at the Bingham Canyon copper mine, UTA opens its airport TRAX line, and the Utah legislature has only a few days left to overturn Governor Herbert’s veto of HB 76.

The Navajo Nation now has the authority to access the assessment data of Navajo students throughout Utah.  Navajo representatives joined state education officials this morning to sign a memorandum of understanding that will help the two entities cooperate in sharing the data. 

For years federal privacy laws barred Navajo Nation education officials from accessing student-specific achievement data because it wasn’t considered a state agency. But recent changes to the law have made tribal education agencies eligible.  

  The University of Utah College of Law is hosting the annual Stegner Symposium this week, focusing on Religion, Faith and the Environment. Increasingly, people of faith are citing their beliefs as a major motivation for protecting the environment and caring for those at the margins of society.