Mj Jewkes

  For the last four years, the U has held a Gold rating from the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System. Since the U’s STARS rating is slated to be renewed in 2024, the Sustainability Office at the U has made some ambitious updates to its original 2010 Climate Action Plan. STARS is a framework...

  On May 18, 2023, the Utah System of Higher Education amended its policy on graduate degree tuition benefits for employees of higher education institutions in the state of Utah. This left the decision of which graduate programs would remain eligible for tuition reduction to individual universities. The University of Utah’s faculty senate responded by...

After anti-war protests in the 70s, the U implemented more hilly landscaping and added trees to the spot for protests to deny students a place to assemble.

Nuclear engineers have the second-fastest growing salaries among six-figure earners, according to the American Nuclear Society. Expanding university programs in nuclear energy has also been encouraged by the U.S. Department of Energy, who created the Nuclear Energy University Program in 2009 to “revitalize nuclear education” at U.S. universities. Such dramatic growth, however, has led...

An invisible trail exists on the University of Utah campus. It won’t appear on any campus map, despite being traveled by thousands of students each week. This urban trail is what many students walk to get to class from the train. Some students like Muwaffaq Usman Adam, an international graduate student from Ghana, walk...