Congrats to our Class of 2020

June 29, 2020 – The University of Utah has been awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant to support the Environmental Humanities Graduate Program focused on environmental justice and community engaged learning. The three-year grant provides $600,000 to fund graduate fellowships, create leadership pathways for students from underrepresented groups, collaborate with communities directly affected by climate change and environmental racism and work closely with grassroots leaders.

By now you will have learned that the University plans to open its doors to in-person classes and on-campus experiences this Fall. We are reopening at a challenging time and under complicated circumstances and I wanted to take this opportunity to assure you that our college – and the University community more broadly – will be devoting all its energies to ensuring that our campus and classrooms are safe, healthy, inclusive and welcoming to students from all backgrounds.

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, a consortium of schools responded by organizing the first National Online Forensics Festival to celebrate end-of-year competition in a new, online format. At this new national tournament, the team won 5 championships.

The John R. Park Debate Society continued its Spring 2020 season by attending the first annual Coyote Howl Invitational hosted by the College of Idaho in Caldwell, Idaho. In competition against 10 schools from 5 states, the Debate Society turned in a commanding performance.