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Scott Wilgar has been interested in art ever since he was a kid, when he spent his free time drawing pictures of Hot Wheels cars and watching his dad paint with watercolors.

It was 5:00 p.m. on a Friday afternoon when Dave Packham’s phone began sounding off multiple alarms, followed by an urgent phone call from his daughter. “Dad, the house is on fire,” she said.

Tragedy always strikes when you least expect it – and in the summer of 2016, it happened to Tina Nguyen. First, her uncle-in-law passed away from a sudden heart attack. Then, the family dog was put down. And then, in June, her mother was diagnosed with adenocarcinoma – non-smoker’s lung cancer – stage 4. The doctors gave her six to twelve months to live.

Are you a millennial who wants to become involved with local politics, but you aren’t quite sure where to start? Emerging Leaders Initiative (ELI) can help.

As you descend the Colorado River, canyon walls rise higher and higher, thousands of feet into the sky. This dramatic landscape laid the backdrop for an epic 23-day rafting trip this past March for UIT's Chris Moore and 14 fellow adventurers.

Kenny Larson's interest in filmmaking began with a low-resolution black-and-white toy camcorder by Tyco. He was 8. Fast-forward to 12, he and his buddies were making short skater movies that Larson joked were "mostly incoherent."

Clarke Headlee, account executive in Network and Communications Infrastructure (NCI), is a perfect example of the power that nature and nurture play in our lives.

What all opera lovers have in common is, well, the moment they fell in love. For Nelson LeDuc, software engineer in UIT's University Support Services' HR/Auxiliary Team, that moment came at age 33. He was considering auditioning for a local opera and figured, “I ought to go and see what I’m getting into."

Levi Conner’s lyrics in “Never Coming Back” unfold like an old roadmap – dog-eared, thumbed through, loose at the seams.

Utah Voices left obscurity behind the moment it stepped off the stage at the Lincoln Center of Performing Arts in 2011. "We felt honored to be there," said Gary Carter, Associate Director of Enterprise Resource Planning, who also sings in the community choir.