MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin, Oct. 1 -- Foley and Lardner, a law firm, issued the following news on Sept. 29, 2022: Foley & Lardner LLP announced today that it is participating in a pro bono initiative for The Salt Lake Tribune, a news outlet based in Salt Lake City, Utah, designed to support journalists in obtaining public records. The pro bono effort comes as government entities have increasingly denied reporters' requests for documents that should be public under the law. The Salt Lake Tribune is a  more

LOGAN, Utah, Sept. 30 (TNSres) -- Utah State University issued the following news: * * * Utah Water Research Laboratory, College of Engineering Modeled, Tested Fix to Rebalance Saline Levels Amid Drought * * * A railroad causeway divides the waters in the Great Salt Lake except for a small opening known as the West Crack Breach. The State of Utah recently funded researchers at the Utah Water Research Laboratory and College of Engineering at Utah State University to study flows through this o  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Oct. 1 (TNSper) -- The University of Utah Health issued the following news release: Professor and surgeon Jason Hunt, MD, is named Interim Chair of the newly created Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery (OHNS) in the Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine (SFESOM) at University of Utah, effective October 1, 2022. OHNS has historically been a division in the Department of Surgery in the SFESOM. In the last 15 years, the division nearly doubled in size to no  more

PRICE, Utah, Sept. 29 (TNSfund) -- Utah State University issued the following news: Utah State University Eastern has received a $100,000 grant donated by Kem C. Gardner. The grant will help fund student scholarships at the university. "The support of Kem C. Gardner to the students at Utah State University Eastern is amazing," said Greg Dart, senior associate vice president of USU Eastern. "These scholarships will make higher education attainable for students who did not know it was within the  more

LOGAN, Utah, Sept. 30 (TNSfund) -- Utah State University issued the following news on Sept. 29, 2022: The College of Humanities and Social Sciences has created a new fund to help Utah State University students take advantage of learning outside of the classroom. The CHaSS Experiential Learning Fund will allow students to apply for support to offset the cost of hands-on learning opportunities including internships and study abroad. "This funding initiative is exciting as it will help to provid  more

LOGAN, Utah, Sept. 27 (TNSres) -- Utah State University issued the following news: Joe Tainter is probably fun to chat with at parties -- for the past 30 years he's studied the collapse of civilization. You'd think a conversation on that topic might run along the lines of a climate catastrophe or a meteor impacting the New York City skyline, but the eventual fate of humanity will be much less theatrically engaging, according to Tainter in a recent seminar presentation in the Quinney College of   more

CEDAR FALLS, Iowa, Sept. 27 (TNSconf) -- The University of Northern Iowa issued the following news release: Writer Taylor Brorby will visit the University of Northern Iowa for a public talk about his coming-of-age memoir "Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land" at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 12 in Lang Hall Auditorium. A master of fine arts graduate of Iowa State University, Brorby is the Annie Tanner Clark Fellow in Environmental Humanities and Environmental Justice at the Tanner Huma  more