Education
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Moab Schools Prioritize Youth Garden Project
Remember your school lunches growing up? Left-over impressions of Taco Tuesday, pizza and chocolate milk are a common experience. In Moab, kids get a taste of something fresh and real…
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Beyond the Cafeteria: Local Produce Initiatives in Wasatch Front Schools
The demand for fresh school lunches far outweighs the supply, making it difficult to provide a homegrown, farm-to-table experience for students in many schools across the Wasatch Front.
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Lassonde Studios Helping University of Utah Students Make their Business Dreams a Reality
Lassonde Studios is more than just a dorm housing 400 residents. It is a center for student entrepreneurs making their business dreams a reality.
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Utah Guru of Home Organization: Declutter Your Home for a Healthier Mind
Decluttering your home and organizing your life has an impact on your mental health. Less stuff leads to better self-care and healthier life.
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Mount Olympus Community Garden Serves as a Classroom for Kids
Howard Driggs Elementary School kids in Holladay learn life skills by gardening at Mount Olympus Community Garden.
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Wallace Stegner’s Lasting Legacy at the University of Utah
Despite spending much of his adult life teaching creative writing at Harvard and Stanford universities, Stegner willed his entire collection of papers, letters, and other memorabilia to the University of…
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Growing Sprouts in your Kitchen
Healthy Eating Without Having to Weed My husband Ken and I have killed more plants than we have kept alive. Every orchid he has brought me has turned into a…
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Eat the Weeds: How to Harvest Wild Foods
Weeds are among the easiest and most widely distributed foods, and although some can be bitter, most are good when cooked, especially when mixed with other wild greens.
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Are Sports More Important than Safety?
Masks, staying 6 feet apart, distance learning, why don’t these apply to high school sports? Are sports more important than safety?
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You can create glass beauty at Red Flower Studios!
At Red Flower Studios owners Daniel Bell and Micah Goddard teach the ancient art of glass blowing. Customers melt color into glass before a 2000 degree oven, blow air into…
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Astonishing Discoveries about Utah Indians
Archeologists Dt. Janetski and Dr. Ives have made some astonishing conclusions. They have found that indigenous people from Canada, who spoke Dene, migrated south into the area around Utah beginning…
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Then and Now: Marriott Library Exhibit Examines Parallels Between Pandemics
Authorities closed public places and issued mask mandates, setting off a dispute over whether those measures were necessary to combat the virus in the fall of 1918 as the world…
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COVID in the Classroom: Teaching Dilemmas in 2020
COVID-19 has changed the way education looks in Utah and across the country. COVID-19 plans for academic institutes have left many parents scrambling for options for their child’s education.
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Starry Starry Night: Dark Sky Parks and Research Flourish in Utah
While Utah is known around the world for extraordinary landscapes, the International Dark Skies Association has designated 15 official Dark-Sky Parks in the Beehive state—more than any other place in…
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J. Willard Marriott Library invites Utahns to help preserve history of the pandemic
Whatever your experience during these difficult times, you are part of history and the J. Willard Marriott Library at the University of Utah wants to hear from you. The library…
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Almost Famous, Aspiring Utah Child Actors
Talent Management Group owner Vickie Panek said Utah offers a lot for child actors. In Los Angeles, a child might be one among 1,000 vying for a part, but one…