You have probably heard plenty of times by now that today marks 25 years since the tragic events of Sept. 11, 2001. I doubt that any American who lived through that poignant moment in time will ever forget where they were, what they were doing or the thoughts that they had when the World Trade ...

On Sept. 11, 2001, I was a 12-year-old boy living in England. Because of the five-hour time difference, I first learned that something had happened as the school day drew to a close. It wasn't until I got home later that afternoon that I saw the images of the Twin Towers burning thousands of ...

September is National Recovery Month. Across Utah, people will gather this month to celebrate something worth celebrating: People can recover from addiction. But there is a question we don't ask nearly as often. What happens after they do? We tell people struggling with addiction to ...

I recently read an article about the importance of students having a “sense of mattering,” and that phrase has really stuck with me. In higher education, we talk a lot about belonging. We want students to feel connected to their university, their classes, their professors and each other. ...

In this harvest season it might be helpful to know it takes 3 ¼ cups of raspberries to make seven cups of raspberry jam, about 45 beans to fill a pint jar, and about a bazillion green peas to fill up a pint-sized freezer bag. I’m tired already. Because it takes about 40 raspberries to fill ...

Armelle Bondonga Bradshaw was nervous walking into her final green card interview, but her husband Terrance assured her that it was all going to be fine. They had done everything the U.S. government had asked of them: completed the required medical and financial assessments, gathered their ...