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Geoffrey Fattah

A student speaks in opposition to an increase in fees or tuition at a meeting of the trustees of the California State University, at CSUC headquarters in Long Beach, Calif., Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2010.
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Utah’s college students get better deals in tuition than the national average
According to the recent study, four-year public colleges and universities saw the 8.3 percent average increase after the 2010-11 academic year. This was mainly influenced by tuition increases from colleges and universities in California. California enrolls about 10 percent of America’s full-time, four-year public students.
By Geoffrey Fattah
Attorney General Mark Shurtleff talks about his future plans in the state, from his office at the Capitol in Salt Lake City June 29, 2011. Reaction to his decision to apply to be president of the University of Utah is mixed.
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Reactions mixed to Mark Shurtleff as U. president
Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff still isn’t talking about his decision to seek the University of Utah presidency, but reaction was mixed Tuesday to his candidacy.
By Geoffrey Fattah and Lisa Riley Roche
Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff talks about his future plans in the state, from his office at the Capitol in Salt Lake City June 29, 2011. He has since applied to be president of the University of Utah.
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Attorney General Mark Shurtleff applies to become next U. president
By Geoffrey Fattah
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Utah’s college students get better deals in tuition than the national average
The cost of a college education jumped 8.3 percent this year, twice the rate of inflation, according to a College Board study.
By Geoffrey Fattah
An officer gets geared up as Salt Lake City officers respond to a standoff Sunday, Nov. 6, 2011 at 1600 south and 600 east where one person has been shot and is at the hospital in stable condition.
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Salt Lake police involved in Sunday evening standoff, shooting
By Geoffrey Fattah
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Teen shot in Midvale drive-by shooting in critical condition
By Geoffrey Fattah
Law professor Randy Dryer has created an honors course that explores issues of transparency and privacy.
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Watching the watchers: University of Utah course looks at transparency and privacy in the digital age
By Geoffrey Fattah
A tiger at Hogle Zoo plays in Salt Lake City Thursday, Nov. 3, 2011. The University of Utah research in the animal kingdom may help shape future research into human voice reconstruction.
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I am baby, hear me roar! University of Utah team studies lions’ low-pitched roars
By Geoffrey Fattah
Data center at the University of Utah's Center for Extreme Data Management Analysis and Visualization in Salt Lake City Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2011. The university has created the center to help scientists from all disciplines deal with massive amounts of da
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New University of Utah center offers some serious computing muscle to handle ‘extreme data’
A picture may be worth a thousand words, but in the fields of science, they can be worth billions and billions of bytes of information.
By Geoffrey Fattah
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Dorm’s leaky pipes force SUU students to find new housing
Southern Utah University officials say it will be years before they can replace an aging dorm building that suffered problems last weekend, forcing the evacuation of about 227 students who now have to find new places to live.
By Geoffrey Fattah
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Study shows Utah a leading state in painkiller deaths
A new study shows that painkiller abuse has not only reached epidemic levels in the United States, but overdose deaths continue a disturbing rise.
By Geoffrey Fattah
National math and reading test scores released Tuesday morning show Utah's students performed in line with national averages in 2011.
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Utah schools beat some national averages, but make no strides on national report card
National math and reading test scores released Tuesday morning show Utah’s students performed in line with national averages in 2011, but students made no significant gains over 2009 results.
By Geoffrey Fattah and Molly Farmer
Law professor Randy Dryer has created an honors course that explores issues of transparency and privacy in our lives and in government. The class is also transparent in that students' papers are posted on a class website, classes are video recorded, and s
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Watching the watchers: University of Utah course looks at transparency and privacy in the digital age
Government hearings are streamed live to public audiences and online access to government documents has allowed for more transparency and public participation. But new technology has also raised serious questions concerning privacy and protection of personal information.
By Geoffrey Fattah
Deseret News President and CEO Clark Gilbert, Mark Jurkowitz, associate director of the Pew Research Center, and Salt Lake Tribune Editor Nancy Conway speak during a panel discussion regarding "How are Journalism Leaders on the Ground Adapting to the Cha
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Utah newspaper heads say newspapers will find a way to survive
Do newspapers have a future? The heads of Utah’s two largest newspapers say yes, but they’re going to have to do a lot of work in finding their area of expertise and then building a reputation as a trusted authority in that area.
By Geoffrey Fattah
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Police seek suspect in Centerville robbery
By Geoffrey Fattah
By Geoffrey Fattah
Vincent Beaver of the Taylorsville 1st Ward drains and cleans a swamp cooler of a home in Taylorsville on Saturday, October 22, 2011. Over 1,000 college aged kids of the Salt Lake Community College LDS Institute participated in the day of service.
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Lending a hand to those in need, young volunteers take time to serve the community
On Saturday, over 1,000 friends and members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’s Taylorsville Young Single Adult Stake descended on the homes of over 600 single elderly women and widows in the Salt Lake valley who needed help with cleaning and repairs.
By Geoffrey Fattah
Kirk Jowers, director of the Hinckley Institute of Politics, has found himself in a fight over the use of $75,000 donated to the institute by national Republican consultant Peter Valcarce.
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University of Utah tries to smooth things over with conservative donor
By Geoffrey Fattah
Bruno Lima, originally from Brazil, is now a sophomore at BYU thanks in large part for the Gear Up program. Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011.
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Education program gets big financial boost to help Utah’s disadvantaged students
By Geoffrey Fattah
3D animation of how cages would look.
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University of Utah undergraduate wins top science prize for gold nano “cages”
By Geoffrey Fattah
Utah Valley University students walk outside the Sorenson Center on campus in Orem Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2011. New attendance figures show that UVU has the highest total enrollment in the state at more than 33,000.
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Officials says Utah colleges are expanding, but funding isn’t
U. has most full-time students, UVU has most overall
By Geoffrey Fattah
Kirk Jowers, director of the Hinckley Institute of Politics, has found himself in a fight over the use of $75,000 donated to the institute by national Republican consultant Peter Valcarce.
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Republican mailer magnate accuses Hinckley director of co-opting donation
By Geoffrey Fattah
A liquid solution of a perylene dye, which emits a green fluorescent light is measured with a custom hand-held photodetector.
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Bringing mercury pollution to light: U. scientist creates faster, cheaper way to measure mercury
By Geoffrey Fattah
Utah State Representative Carl Wimmer, right, shakes hands with supporter John Ogden at Wimmer's campaign kickoff in South Jordan. Wimmer will run for U.S. Congress in the new 4th District Saturday, Oct. 8, 2011.
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Wimmer kicks off his campaign for new congressional seat
By Geoffrey Fattah
Smog and haze hovering over downtown is lit by the rising sun as it appears over the mountains Tuesday, January 12, 2010.
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Could vitamins help Utahns breathe easy during inversions?
By Geoffrey Fattah
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Utah Board of Regents rolls back salary increases after governor’s reaction
By Geoffrey Fattah
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Legislature makes changes to Board of Regents rural requirement
By Geoffrey Fattah
Thanksgiving Point opens its Mars rover themed corn maze Friday, Sept. 30, 2011, in Lehi. NASA has teamed up with seven of the nation's top corn mazes to celebrate and honor the U.S. space program this fall.
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Get lost in space: NASA-sponsored corn maze explores Mars rover program
By Geoffrey Fattah
Riley Packer, 6, of Sandy, checks out a University of Utah T-shirt for sale at the Utah Red Zone store in Sandy on Nov. 1, 2010.
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University warns peddlers of unlicensed merchandise
By Geoffrey Fattah
University of Utah chemist Matt Sigman, seen here on Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2011, in Salt Lake City, has helped develop a method to design and test new catalysts, which are substances that speed chemical reactions and are crucial for producing energy, chemi
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Giving catalysts a boost of their own: University of Utah scientists’ work about to gain worldwide attention
By Geoffrey Fattah
Professor Peter Stang, former dean of the College of Science at the University of Utah, has been awarded the National Medal of Science by the White House. Photographed on May 3, 2002.
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National science medalist from University of Utah credits freedom and opportunity in U.S. for his success
By Geoffrey Fattah
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