Nothing about us without us
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The U creates a research team for students who identify as having a disability.
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Building a sense of belonging in Utah schools
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A team of Utah educators launches the Belonging Schools Initiative to empower families as partners in their children’s education.
Read MoreInternational Night 2019: Leave Your Mark on the World
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International night featured food, dance and culture from countries all around the globe.
Read MoreThanksgiving food for thought
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For many Americans, Thanksgiving isn’t all turkey and gravy. Discover five ways to approach the holiday with increased kindness and sensitivity.
Read MoreHumans of the U: Tiffany Baffour
“I participated in my first anti-apartheid protest when I was 12 years old. I think that was really a catalyst for me to start thinking about social change and how we can all have an impact on larger social and policy issues.”
Read MoreFour ways to be an ally for transgender members of our community
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Transgender and gender-nonconforming members of our community face homelessness, violence, incarceration and suicide at alarming rates. Learn what steps you can take to end transgender discrimination.
Read More‘I am multiracial’
According to new research from University of Utah psychologists Jasmine Norman and Jacqueline Chen, questions such as “What are you?” and other experiences of discrimination are related to mixed-race people’s identification as multiracial, particularly if that discrimination comes from monoracial people with whom they share heritage, or includes comments that a person’s appearance doesn’t match their background.
Read MoreUniversity Asia Campus celebrates 5 years
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How would you know you were on a U campus in East Asia? Here are some signs you were still at the U, just on the other side of the world.
Read MoreJust to see you smile
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A U student raised in Haiti is determined to improve lives in Utah and around the world—but he needs your help.
Read MoreBrave conversations
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The new director of the Office for Inclusive Excellence describes their vision for improving the campus climate.
Read MoreHumans of the U: Brittany Kiyoko Badger
“I did not fully grasp the impact of the injustices that my ancestors experienced until I was in my 20s. I loosely knew my Japanese-Australian grandmother and her family were interned during World War II. I knew she was a single mother, raising three children in post-war Australia and living below the poverty line. I knew my mother experienced racism in her home country. However, as the child of a white-American father and an immigrant, Japanese-Australian mother, I was shielded from much of this while growing up in a middle-class neighborhood.”
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