When I graduated from high school, I couldn’t wait to go to college. I wanted to continue my education, of course, but I also wanted to move out my hometown.  Growing up in a community of about 10,000 people, I was ready to expand my social circle. My dorm room at Montana

When I consider what it means to be resilient, I think of the woods where I grew up, abundant with elm and birch trees, and not far from where Robert Frost loved to wander on his farm in Derry, New Hampshire. He described the trees I played in, birches that bowed

War, genocide, infanticide, gang violence. These subjects often filled Matthew LaPlante's notebooks while reporting for outlets like the Salt Lake Tribune and CNN. But the daily dose of bad news wore him down. “I was sad and angry and I didn't like me very much, but I felt what I was doing

Excerpt from The Traveling Feast: On the Road and At the Table with My Heroes by Rick Bass '79  Rick Bass spent four years on the road paying homage to literary giants the best way he knew how: by preparing a home-cooked meal. He visited writers such as Doug Peacock, Gary Snyder,

Nothing says style quite like a Fort Rock Sandal with its distinct close-twined sole. At 9,300 years old, this rugged sagebrush bark footwear is a true classic. Veronica Villhard '19 was well aware of these sandals, and many others throughout human history, when she set out to design superior ones—at

More than 7,000 years ago, humankind made one of its greatest discoveries to date: cheese. Without it there would be no pizza, no mac, no shmear for our bagels, no cheddar for our burgers. A dark age indeed. Early cheese production is believed to have emerged as a way of preserving milk

Picture this. The family is sitting around a meal at the table. Children and parents share events of the day. Talking and laughing can be heard because there is no sound of television, video games, or phones. Now, think about what might be more realistic. Perhaps people stand at the counter

David Schramm admits he is selfish. When asked why he conducted a research study on parenting advice and regrets from empty nesters, he says because he wants to be a better parent, and no one has ever done such a study. “I only get one chance at being a dad, and

Paul Rogers is comfortable with messiness. Before he was a researcher monitoring the health of western forests, before he became a disturbance ecologist, Rogers studied geography. This is where things tend to get muddled. Because the study of place is also the study of people. People put lines on maps. People

A pivotal discovery in Lisa Berreau’s chemistry lab happened like many scientific advances throughout history—by serendipity. A few years ago, while her lab was investigating the chemistry of metal flavonate compounds, a student left a sample sitting on a benchtop for a few days and found that it changed after exposure

LYNN THOMAS WALKS IN THE SPITTING RAIN TO THE DARYL CHASE FINE ARTS BUILDING. His keys jingle as he describes growing up in Hyrum during the height of the Cold War—a time when neighbors erected fallout shelters in the mountains and classmates performed duck and cover drills in school. Mid-sentence

[caption id="attachment_4715" align="alignnone" width="934"] Al Trujillo[/caption] I have lived through 64 D-Days, but not until recently have come to really appreciate its significance. My father served in the Navy during World War II, and yet I could not tell you a thing about what he did and how he felt. He