Academics
Introducing the first master’s degree in the Communication Department, Weber State University is stepping up to help students meet the new requirements of the business world. The newest of only 11 master’s programs to be unveiled at WSU is the professional communication master’s degree. At the beginning of summer semester, this particular master’s degree was […]
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By the time Weber State University students are ready to graduate, they’ve gone through numerous credit hours, taken dozens of classes, and even more tests. The one requirement that most students complete, but might not understand, is the Computer and Information Literacy requirement. “The CIL requirement has been a requirement of all Utah universities for […]
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Brine flies might owe their survival in the salty waters of the Great Salt Lake to a bacteria Amanda Truong found living within their cells. Later this month, she’s going to tell an international audience about her findings at a prestigious conference in Japan. “We’re thinking these bacteria have been inside the brine flies for […]
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Now that we have reached the halfway mark for the summer, many of us start dreading what is looming on the horizon: the new school year. New classes to stress over, new teachers to load up the new work, and new books and supplies. It seems that with every new year, students find new things […]
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Lacey Jeffrey, above, looks at a culture at the Gunnison Valley Hospital in Salina, Utah. Jeffrey is attending school so that she can get her degree to become a lab technician. Her education has all been made possible by Weber State University’s diverse amount of online classes available. She never answered ‘here’ to a professor […]
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The new dean of Weber State University’s Goddard School of Business and Economics wants the school to choose a theme and be nationally recognized for it. “We have a lot of good things going on here, but I don’t think anybody really knows about them, at least not outside the region,” said Jeff Steagall, dean […]
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On March 31, the Association of American Medical Colleges released preliminary recommendations for a new version of the Medical College Admission Test. The proposed recommendations were developed by a 22-member advisory panel called the MR5 Committee, appointed by the AAMC in 2008 to gather extensive data and review the current MCAT exam and recommend necessary […]
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