March 5th, 2010 by newsroom
March 5, 2010
For Immediate Release
For more information: Dave Smith (801) 473-4669
University Marketing & Communications: Erin Spurgeon, (801) 863-6807
Daniel Gordis, author of the 2009 National Jewish Book Award-winning “Saving Israel,” will speak at Utah Valley University Wednesday, March 10, as part of a full day of political discussion. Advocates for Cooperation in the Middle East, UVU’s pro-peace student group, organized the event.
“We think this a terrific chance for students and the community to come together and get another perspective on everything taking place in the region from someone who lives under the threat of attack every day” said David Smith, a member of the club.
Smith said the student group invited Gordis “to help educate those on campus about the situation that Israel faces… and how that situation is further jeopardized with the threat of a nuclear Iran.”
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March 5th, 2010 by newsroom
March 5, 2010
For Immediate Release
For more information: Diana Hunter (801) 863-7427 or Susan Palmer (801) 863-8004
University Marketing & Communications: Erin Spurgeon, (801) 863-6807
This year’s annual Children’s Literature Forum at Utah Valley University is slated to feature some of the best and brightest authors, illustrators, librarians and educators in the children’s and young adult book industry. The conference includes two days of workshops, peer critique groups, networking and book signings as well as an illustration gallery March 15-16. Anyone interested in children’s and young adult literature is invited to attend.
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March 4th, 2010 by newsroom
March 4, 2010
For Immediate Release
For more information: Dan Stephen (801) 863-8584
University Marketing & Communications: Erin Spurgeon, (801) 863-6807
Written by: Chelsey Richardson (801) 863-8504
Thanks to Jonathan Swift’s island of Lilliput, a strange place occupied by tiny beings, the word has entered into common parlance to denote something below average size. Paleontologists have adopted the literary term to describe a biological occurrence, now commonly referred to as The Lilliput Effect. The Lilliput Effect is a phenomenon that apparently occurs after a mass extinction on Earth, traumatizing the surviving marine life and reducing their overall size – an event that would take several million years to recover from. However, a UVU professor is part of an international team of French, German, American and Swiss paleontologists that have discovered that this may not be the case. The team’s results, published in the February 2010 issue of the journal “Geology,” have challenged paleontologists’ current thinking regarding the way the Earth functions in the aftermath of a mass extinction event.
Dan Stephen, assistant professor of earth sciences at UVU, was working with the team in the west desert of Utah when they came across something strange: outsized fossils of gastropods.
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March 4th, 2010 by newsroom
March 4, 2010
For Immediate Release
For more information: Liz Hitch (801) 863-8700
University Marketing & Communications: Erin Spurgeon, (801) 863-6807
Written by: Erin Spurgeon, (801) 863-6807
Utah Valley University is pleased to announce the selection of Dr. Norman S. Wright of Alfaisal University in Saudi Arabia as the new dean of the Woodbury School of Business. Wright will begin his service as the business school dean beginning July 1.
Wright holds both a Ph.D. and an M.A. in management from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business. Prior to Wharton, he attended Brigham Young University where he earned a master’s in public administration and a bachelor’s degree in economics.
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March 2nd, 2010 by newsroom
March 2, 2010
For Immediate Release
For more information: Colleen Vawdrey (801) 863-8283
University Marketing & Communications: Erin Spurgeon, (801) 863-6807
Written by: Chelsey Richardson (801) 863-8504
With five of its 12 team members taking first place at the State Career Development Conference, Utah Valley University’s Delta Epsilon Chi (DEX) students are getting ready to move onto nationals. On Feb. 19-20, UVU’s team competed against other DEX chapters throughout the state in marketing- and hospitality-related events, sponsored by DECA, a national organization for business and marketing students. DEX is a student affiliation of the business organization.
“This group has just gotten better and better in the last few years, and these students have a lot of great skills that are going to be beneficial to them on the job,” said Colleen Vawdrey, professor of business communication at UVU. “[This competition] is a great learning experience, it’s a great resume builder, and it’s great for networking.”
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