Dr. Susan Madsen is a professor of management at Utah Valley University, as well as an Orin R. Woodbury Professor of Leadership and Ethics. She recently completed and released a series of research briefs on the status of women leaders in Utah. Her Utah Woman and Leadership Project has exposed a noticeable lack of female…
Today on the show we have a conversation about rural development in America, with Patrice Kunesh, Deputy Undersecretary for Rural Development at the US Department of Agriculture. That, plus your local headlines, today on The Rundown.
Today on the show, Dr. J. Craig Venter. Venter is best known for sequencing the human genome a decade before most predicted it could be done. He is also the author of the books A Life Decoded: My Genome: My Life, and Life at the Speed of Light: From the Double Helix to the Dawn…
A report released this month by the Sierra Club highlights parts of the state of Utah for having enormous untapped fossil fuel reserves, which, if extracted and burned would greatly exacerbate climate change. Today, we speak to the Sierra Club’s Tim Wagner to learn more. Plus, your top local headlines.
Today on the program we’re looking at earthquakes and earthquake preparedness in Utah. We’re joined by Dr. Keith Koper, an Associate Professor of Geology & Geophysics at the University of Utah, Director of the U’s Seismograph Stations, and a member of the Utah Seismic Safety Commission for that discussion. Plus your local headlines.
A forthcoming study by two political scientists examines the influence held by various stakeholders over policy-making in America. As a result of the study, media outlets have concluded that “the United States isn’t a Democracy any more,” among other things. Today we’ll speak with Northwestern University’s Dr. Benjamin Page to see if that’s really what…
Last week, Scott Keyes of The Center for American Progress wrote in the Washington Post about efforts by conservative states to try to discourage (and even prevent) divorce. That conversation, plus your top local headlines, today on The Rundown.
Today on the program we’re joined by University of Utah geochemist Gabe Bowen, senior author of a study published today in the journal Nature Communications. Through data analysis and computer modeling, Dr. Bowen and his team uncovered a 4,000-year-old pattern in the Jet Stream with implications for today’s climate. Plus your summary of the day’s…
Today on the show we rebroadcast a conversation from the archives, with John Herbert, Program Director of Utah Digital Newspapers at the University of Utah’s J. Willard Marriott Library. For the past 11 years, he and his staff have been scanning collections of old Utah newspapers, and making them freely available for the public online.…
Today on the program we hear again from Terry Orme, Editor and Publisher of the Salt Lake Tribune. We last spoke with Orme in October after a 20 percent reduction in news staff at the paper and the retirement of Editor Nancy Conway and Publisher William Dean Singleton. Today, we look at further cuts at…
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