Новости за 17.09.2021

Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, gave a message encouraging Americans to “defend the Constitution” in his Constitution Day speech Friday morning at the Hinckley Center.

Some international students at BYU are puzzled at the hesitancy of Americans in getting vaccinated. Many international students have seen a positive approach toward getting vaccinated in their home countries, which contrasts some American viewpoints about the COVID-19 vaccine.

Sept. 11 – Man reported threatening people with a weapon while attempting to steal their vehicle near the Museum of Art.

Meet statistics professor Lynne Nielsen! Before coming to BYU, Nielsen worked with the Philippines government to bring electricity to rural areas of the country. Most recently she published the book, "The First Political Order: How Sex Shapes Governance and National Security Worldwide" with fellow professors Valerie M. Hudson and Donna Lee Bowen. Featured on The Economist, the book explores how the treatment of women shapes a country.

Vaping still persists in its high popularity among Utah's youth, despite anti-vaping laws enacted by Utah legislators in 2020. "It is definitely a trend that is on the up and up, and I think with COVID-19 it has just gotten worse," Provo School Board President Melanie Hall said, adding that students have had more downtime to experiment with vaping.

This Q&A is part of a series of stories in collaboration with student papers around the Big 12 to help BYU fans get acquainted with their new conference. This is my conversation with Nick Hargroue, a sports reporter with The Daily Texan at the University of Texas at Austin.

Utah residents can find prime star-gazing at any of the state’s 22 designated dark sky places made possible by measures taken to lower light pollution.