University of Utah

The protests in Utah, 10 were planned across the state, coincided with a national day of protests taking place on the same day as a planned military parade in Washington, D.C.

The state’s largest universities, the University of Utah and Utah Valley University, plan to streamline their offerings by cutting low-enrollment programs and strengthening student “durable skills.”

There are more than 800 square miles of exposed lakebed, and researchers are just beginning to understand how pervasive the dust problem is.

Salt Lake Community College has one of the largest in-person prison education programs in the nation. Incarcerated students can also get technical certificates, a high school diploma and female inmates can also get a bachelor’s degree.

Struggling to recover from a hand injury, Rising said he's been advised by two orthopedic surgeons that he'll never be able to return to playing football.

The Beehive State's first-in-the-nation fluoride ban takes effect Wednesday. It could be followed closely by a ban in Florida.

More than 320,000 people in Utah have federal student loans. On May 5, the U.S. Department of Education will start collecting loans from defaulters and is expected to garnish wages this summer.

The Ogden-based university will cut 17 majors, 8 minors and 7 certificates. It joins Utah State University as the first pair of schools to announce major changes following the Legislature’s academic overhaul.

Smoot represented Utah in the senate from 1903-1933 and was a central architect of the United States’ tariff policies leading up to and during the Great Depression.

Colleges across the U.S. are reporting that some of their international students are unexpectedly having their visas revoked by the Trump Administration.

“We cannot be cowed by any pushback, we just have to keep getting the truth out there and talk about the value of science, the value of education, over and over again,” Flatow told KUER’s Pamela McCall.

Gender parity is a challenge at Utah’s business schools, but many of the 16 students KUER interviewed from Brigham Young University felt the issue weighed more there.