Tj Ross

On Saturday evening, the University of Utah’s Black Cultural Center hosted the fourth annual Black Faculty and Staff Awards at Cleone Peterson Eccles Alumni house. Meligha Garfield, director of the BCC, started this event with why it was first created, “with the goal to bring awareness to Black faculty and staff at the...

  Branden Wilson, a University of Utah senior and entrepreneur major, created his own clothing brand that he hopes points people to creativity, gratification and individuality.  Wilson created the brand Sore Thumb last fall, which is inspired by his childhood. Wilson explained he created the name because of years of family, friends and doubters telling...

  Not very many people start working for their college newspaper in their last college semester, but that’s what I did when I started as a contributor for the news desk at the Daily Utah Chronicle. I came to the Chronicle knowing I wouldn’t be pursuing a career in journalism but still felt accepted even...

  Draper’s Loveland Living Planet Aquarium hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Wednesday to celebrate the first viewing of their new Komodo dragon. Over 120 guests funneled to the front of the Expedition Asia exhibit to watch Brent Andersen, founder and CEO of Loveland Aquarium, officially open the exhibit. Many of the families in attendance heard about...

  A new book from Associate Professor of History and Gender Studies at the University of Utah Maile Arvin looks at the history of white settler colonialism in Polynesia and Oceania. Titled “Possessing Polynesians: The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawai’i and Oceania,” it includes some of the earliest findings from social scientists who...

  After five years, the Utah Department of Transportation has come to the decision to move forward with Gondola B. UDOT plans to build an eight-mile-long gondola stretching from Little Cottonwood Canyon to improve traffic on the way to ski resorts. “It took more than five years of thorough research, analysis, engineering, public outreach and...

Adjusting to American culture can be a battle for international students across the country, and the University of Utah is no exception.