OGDEN, Utah, Feb. 27 -- Weber State University issued the following news: Weber State University's 26Department of English launched a new "era" of elective courses focused on Taylor Swift Studies this spring with more than 30 undergraduate and graduate students signing up to study the award-winning songstress and her recent pop culture dominance. Associate Professor Emily January is teaching the elective course, which filled up "almost immediately" once spring class registration opened. "We   more

DES MOINES, Iowa, Feb. 27 -- The Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird issued the following news release on Feb. 26, 2024: Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird, Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch, and Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes today led a 22-state coalition in a letter to the Biden Administration, demanding that it locate the thousands of missing migrant children it lost and quit handing them to probable traffickers. The Biden Administration lost more than 85,000 migrant children in just   more

ASHEBORO, North Carolina, Feb. 28 -- Western Governors University-Utah issued the following news release: As the state's leading membership and support organization for public charter schools., the North Carolina Association for Public Charter Schools provides a wide array of services and support to help all the state's charter schools provide a high-quality education to their students. To encourage employees of the organization's members to upskill and further their careers by pursuing educati  more

PROMONTORY, Utah, Feb. 27 -- Northrop Grumman issued the following news release: Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) completed the first Booster Obsolescence and Life Extension (BOLE) motor segment for the next-generation Space Launch System (SLS) solid rocket booster. BOLE adds nearly five metric tons of payload capacity for SLS Block 2 Moon and Mars missions above the enhancements already in work for the SLS Block 1B configuration slated to fly on Artemis IV. The new solid rocket boost  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Feb. 29 -- Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes issued the following news on Feb. 28, 2024: Today, Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes took the lead in sending a letter, signed by 21 other Attorneys General, demanding Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Xavier Becerra, and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Christopher Wray address a recent report issued by the HHS Office of Inspector G  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, March 1 -- Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes issued the following news on Feb. 29, 2024: Today, Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court, along with 21 other Attorneys General, in the case of Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v U.S. Food and Drug Administration, urging the Court to uphold the people's constitutional authority to make laws through their elected officials. In their brief, the Attorneys General write: Our Constit  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Feb. 27 -- Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes issued the following news: Attorney General Sean D. Reyes joined an amicus brief to the Supreme Court of the State of Montana in Held v. Montana. The brief, led by the State of North Dakota, supports Montana's position in an appeal over judicial overreach from a question of environmental policy set by the state legislature. The case involves a challenge to a Montana law that bans state entities from "considering the impacts o  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Feb. 29 -- Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes issued the following news: Utah Attorney General Reyes is joining a coalition of 12 state attorneys general on a letter urging Congress to pass the bipartisan Stephen Hacala Poppy Seed Safety Act, a bill to address another aspect of the opioid crisis. Stephen Hacala was a 25-year-old resident of Fayetteville, Ark., who was found dead in his apartment due to morphine intoxication caused by contaminated unwashed poppy seeds. Un  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, March 1 -- The Utah Governor's Office of Economic Opportunity issued the following news: * * * Business Elevated Podcast (Season 6 Episode 6) This podcast series (https://business.utah.gov/news/category/podcasts/) features business and government leaders discussing what it's like to live and work in the great state of Utah. The Business Elevated podcast is available on Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/business-elevated/id1453052684), Google Podcasts  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Feb. 28 -- Western Governors University-Utah issued the following news release on Feb. 27, 2024: Western Governors University (WGU) today unveiled its School of Business brand, which represents how students and graduates are equipped with the future-ready skills needed to make an immediate impact in the evolving workplace and business landscape. The WGU School of Business collaborates across the corporate landscape to build industry-aligned programs and products in partne  more

JERSEY CITY, New Jersey, March 1 -- Western Governors University-Utah issued the following news release on Feb. 29, 2024: Western Governors University (WGU) announced today the appointment of Dr. K.L. Allen as regional vice president of the northeast region. He will lead university operations across 12 states spanning the Eastern Seaboard from Maine to Virginia, including Washington D.C. In the role, he will guide the strategic direction of the online, nonprofit university and play an instrumen  more

OGDEN, Utah, March 1 -- Weber State University issued the following news: Continuing a 15-year tradition, Weber State University will bring together leading experts on sustainability during its annual Intermountain Sustainability Summit at the Ogden campus March 21-22. The summit is one of Utah's largest sustainability events, bringing together thought leaders and emerging professionals from business, government, nonprofit and education sectors. "This is an opportunity to collaborate not onl  more