University of Utah

Rule Changes

Uses the Utes name under a renewable memorandum of understanding

The University of Utah signed a new five-year agreement with the Ute Indian Tribe on Sept. 12, extending the school's right to use the Utes name for its sports teams through August 2031. The deal raises scholarship funding for Ute students and adds mobile health clinic visits to the Uintah and Ouray Reservation.

Updated 18 hours ago

Built World

Host of Native Ascent House

Eleven Indigenous students now live in Native Ascent House, a red-brick residential facility on the University of Utah's Officer's Circle geared to Native American students. It is the first Native-focused living-learning community in Utah and the surrounding region.

Updated 6 days ago

Built World

Owner of the EPA-funded brownfield parcel

Artspace, the nonprofit that seeded Salt Lake City's Rio Grande arts scene, celebrated the reopening of its first building on September 3. The 62-unit complex at 511 West 200 South—now renamed Norbridge Court—underwent a full renovation with new interiors, a mural, and remade commercial spaces.

Updated 6 days ago

Rule Changes

Central institution; issued the alert

Two University of Utah students died within the first week of classes. One, a first-year student from California, fell off an electric scooter on campus Friday evening; the second died over the weekend in undisclosed circumstances.

Updated Sep 3

Rule Changes

Host campus for licensed address

Olives Oasis, a Middle Eastern-American food truck and catering business run by two sisters originally from Iraq, is now cleared to operate at 50 N Medical Dr in Salt Lake City. The address appeared on the Salt Lake County Health Department's public food establishment list on September 1, 2026.

Updated Sep 2

Rule Changes

Conducted 2026 hair analysis study

For most of the twentieth century, Americans inhaled roughly two pounds of lead per person annually from car exhaust alone. A new University of Utah study analyzing century-old hair samples documents the scale of this unintentional mass poisoning—and the reversal that followed. Lead concentrations in human hair dropped from 100 parts per million before the 1970s to less than 1 part per million today, a 100-fold decline documented through specimens preserved in family scrapbooks.

Updated May 27