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Utah's college students get better deals in tuition than the national average

Published: Monday, November 14, 2011 12:00 am MST

According to the recent study, four-year public colleges and universities saw the 8.3 percent average increase after the 2010-11 academic year. This was mainly influenced by tuition increases from colleges and ...

Reactions mixed to Mark Shurtleff as U. president

Published: Tuesday, November 8, 2011 7:06 pm MST

Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff still isn't talking about his decision to seek the University of Utah presidency, but reaction was mixed Tuesday to his candidacy.

Reactions mixed to Mark Shurtleff as U. president

Published: Tuesday, November 8, 2011 7:06 pm MST

Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff still isn't talking about his decision to seek the University of Utah presidency, but reaction was mixed Tuesday to his candidacy.

Attorney General Mark Shurtleff applies to become next U. president

Published: Monday, November 7, 2011 5:33 pm MST

SALT LAKE CITY — The search for a new president for the University of Utah took a new twist on Monday when it was confirmed that Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff threw his hat into the ring for consid

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Utah's college students get better deals in tuition than the national average

Published: Monday, November 7, 2011 3:14 pm MST

The cost of a college education jumped 8.3 percent this year, twice the rate of inflation, according to a College Board study.

Watching the watchers: University of Utah course looks at transparency and privacy in the digital age

Published: Monday, November 7, 2011 12:00 am MST

SALT LAKE CITY — Today's technology has profoundly changed the way we lead our lives.

Social networking has allowed us to stay instantaneously close to friends and family. Cellphones can keep us in con

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Salt Lake police involved in Sunday evening standoff, shooting

Published: Monday, November 7, 2011 12:00 am MST

SALT LAKE CITY — At least one person was shot and another person held police at bay inside a house Sunday night.

Officers responded to a home near 1500 South and 600 East after a report of a shooting a

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Teen shot in Midvale drive-by shooting in critical condition

Published: Sunday, November 6, 2011 10:22 pm MST

MIDVALE — One person was taken to the hospital in critical condition Sunday evening after what police say was a gang-related drive-by shooting.

Police received a call of a shooting around 8 p.m. at the

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I am baby, hear me roar! University of Utah team studies lions' low-pitched roars

Published: Thursday, November 3, 2011 6:21 pm MDT

SALT LAKE CITY — You may not know it by hearing it, but lions and human babies have something in common: they both cry out for attention.

Researchers at the University of Utah's National Center for Voi

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New University of Utah center offers some serious computing muscle to handle 'extreme data'

Published: Thursday, November 3, 2011 6:11 pm MDT

A picture may be worth a thousand words, but in the fields of science, they can be worth billions and billions of bytes of information.