Utah’s Board of Higher Education has unanimously appointed Jon Anderson, Ph.D., as Utah Valley University‘s eighth president, succeeding Astrid Tuminez and effective August 10, 2026.
by Mason Butler
Utah Valley University (Orem, UT) launched a centralized AI Gateway giving all employees secure access to ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, following a 360-user pilot.
by Mason Butler
Utah Valley University students developed an AI-driven framework urging universities to replace lectures with AI tutoring and prioritize mentorship, collaboration, and human connection as higher education faces accelerating disruption.
by Mason Butler
Spencer Magleby spent 30+ years at BYU applying folding paper techniques into spacecraft. Now he leads UVU's Smith College of Engineering and Technology.
by Mason Butler
Two healthcare founders at a Utah hackathon discussed motivation, stress-focused medicine, and regulatory friction. They emphasized resilience, incremental validation, and contrasting views on innovation adoption in clinical systems.
by Mason Butler
HITLAB's Innovation World Cup brought 1,277 applicants and a $96K prize pool to Utah Valley University. A retired Army officer's maternal health startup won the pitch competition. A team of builders took home the hackathon bounty.
by Mason Butler
A Provo hackathon team, Portobello Health, builds an AI-agent tool letting patients monitor their own medical records, addressing privacy risks in the new national QHIN network — without winning a bounty.
by Mason ButlerUtah's Chief Privacy Officer unveils SEDI, a state-endorsed digital identity model built on individual control, at a UVU hackathon where a Provo team builds AI health-record agents on the same framework.
by Mason Butler