Eric Jungblut

It’s springtime in Northern Utah, and that means mammals coming out of hibernation and birds returning from warm climates.

Gulls have invaded the eastern edge of the Utah State University campus near the Living Learning Community residence halls and Old Main Hill. And they’re causing problems for LLC residents like Anne Toller, Kimberly Lamping and Caitlyn Chamberlain.

They're annoying and they're everywhere and they're so loud in the morning.

A massive open online course, or a MOOC for short, has come to the USU campus: or rather, to the entire world.

The MOOC USU is offering is ITLS 5245/6245, Interactive Multimedia Production. The graduate-level class is being taken by hundreds of students and non-students in the U.S. and other countries across the globe.

The MOOC is not for credit and is completely free, but this could pose problems for the course in the future.  Andrew Walker of the instructional technology and learning science department at USU is the instructor for the MOOC.

The USU police department provides many different services for the students and employees of Utah State University, but one service they offer could mean the difference between life and death in a workplace violence situation.

The Great Salt Lake and several smaller lakes are all that remain of the vast, prehistoric inland sea that once covered much of what is today Utah. Lake Bonneville, under which Cache Valley was once submerged, broke its containment at the northern edge of the valley in what came to be known as the Bonneville Flood. The event drained the lake of roughly half of its water, and years of climate change would reduce it to its modern-day ancestors.

Diabetes is one of America’s greatest health concerns. Nearly 26 million children and adults in the U.S. have the disease, and many more are at risk of developing it later in life.

The American Diabetes Association is holding an EXPO in Salt Lake City to help combat this problem in Utah and provide residents with free screenings and other information related to diabetes prevention and healthy living, according to Dr. Elizabeth Seaquist, president of medicine and science for the ADA.

An appeals  court said it won't reconsider a ruling dismissing lawsuits that were filed against the federal government for rescinding oil and gas leases near national parks in Utah.

A three-judge panel of the 10th U.S. Circuit court of Appeals ruled in September that energy companies missed a 90-day deadline to sue. Two companies sought a review by the full appeals court. The court said Thursday the requests were denied.

From park benches to friends' couches, thousands of Utahns spend their days looking for a place to sleep for the night. 

And next week, volunteers will bundle up and fan out across the state on Thursday morning to find those without homes for the annual Point in Time Homeless Count. 

In Utah, last year's volunteers counted more than 16,000 people. Tamera Kohler, director of the state Community Services Office, says there's no official prediction this year.

Utah Governor Gary Herbert and U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch have awarded the energy technology innovation of the year award to Utah State University’s wireless power transfer team for their wirelessly-charged Aggie Bus.
The Aggie Bus is charged using a pad mounted underneath the vehicle. When the bus stops to load and unload passengers, another pad at the stop location transfers energy to the bus. This constant wireless recharging of the battery keeps the bus on route all day.