Plus, will the next Elon Musk or Phil Knight emerge from Utah’s Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute?
☀️ 11 – 36° Logan | ⛅ 24 – 43° Salt Lake 🌤️ 11 – 42° Manti | ☀️ 20 – 43° Moab ☀️ 20 – 48° Cedar City | ⛅ 29 – 56° St. George 🌅 Good morning! Seven talented kids got their big moment with the Utah Symphony this week. The Salute to Youth is an annual concert program sponsored by the Deseret News and has been running for 64 years. It's an opportunity for young artists to share their passion for music and to perform in front of a sizable audience. “The artists we honor have pursued their passion for music through countless hours, days and weeks of practice and rehearsal to reach this remarkable level of expertise at such a young age,” said Deseret News executive editor Doug Wilks. “It is a joy to provide an additional platform for them to share their talents and to play a small part in celebrating their accomplishments," Wilks said. 🎵 Read more about the seven kids and their chance to shine this week. |
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| While it’s been a rough season for the Utes on the gridiron — the University of Utah is finding other ways to ascend the national rankings. Earlier this month, Utah’s flagship university was ranked No. 3 in the West for undergraduate and graduate entrepreneurship education by Princeton Review. Nationwide, the University of Utah cracked the top 25, coming in at No. 24. “Our focus is making sure we have strong programs that make our students successful,” Kurt Dirks, dean of the university’s David Eccles School of Business, told reporter Jason Swensen. Here are three key points from the article: The business school's Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute offers student-entrepreneurs a vast space to innovate and collaborate. Many Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute participants are business founders utilizing the institute’s resources to launch and grow their ventures. Hundreds of University of Utah students live in the Lassonde Studio's four floors of residential space. Read more about the University of Utah's entrepreneurship education. More in Utah First Presidency testifies of Christ in annual Christmas message (KSL) Ogden leaders debate deeply affordable housing project amid push for economic growth (KUER) Is Etsy still useful for smaller sellers? (Utah Business) Utah Rural Leadership Academy participants share solutions, ideas at graduation ceremony (St George News) The Indigenous Utah authors to know (City Cast Salt Lake) Utah investor launches holiday clothing drive (KSL) |
| Over the 16 years since her life-altering accident, Stephanie Nielson has known the many dimensions of healing — the relentless reconstructive surgeries and skin grafts, the wells of anger and grief, the pleading with God that she could forget everything that happened and then to remember it again, the gratitude of being alive and the sense of purpose she feels in sharing her story. Her blog, the NieNie Dialogues, which turns 20 years old next year, has grown with her into a vulnerable and earnest record of Nielson’s healing. The blog stands as a chronicle of Nielson’s resilience — a space where she could tell her story on her own terms, choosing life, hope and faith amid unrelenting physical pain. That resilience was put to the test again when Nielson hiked Mount Kilimanjaro, along with a group of burn survivors from the Arizona Burn Center. The trip, which included doctors and nurses who treated Nielson, aimed to raise funds for a new burn center. Often physically exhausted and emotionally drained on the hike, Nielson faced the question that is now part of her everyday life: How do you live with inescapable pain and devastating memories and, despite the agony, move forward anyway? “My whole recovery is climbing mountains every day,” she told reporter Mariya Manzhos. The summit was part of her healing, she says. Read more about what Neilson is up to now and to get an inside look at the plane crash survivor and blogger's experience climbing the tallest mountain in Africa. |
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🗓️ Events Calendar We put together a calendar list of events and activities going on around the state of Utah the next month. Check it out and let us know if we are missing anything! Here are some highlights for events in Utah today: Temple Square Christmas Lights | Temple Square, Salt Lake City Breakfast with Santa at Gardner Village | Gardner Village, West Jordan Holiday Tea at The Grand | Grand America Hotels & Resorts, Salt Lake City Gentri | Eccles Theater “Christmas Carol Part 2″ | The Off Broadway Theatre, Draper The Giving Machines Choir Performances | City Creek Center, Salt Lake City "Messiah" Sing-In presented by Utah Symphony | Maurice Abravanel Hall, Salt Lake City Utah Hockey at Las Vegas Golden Knights | 8 p.m. Utah Jazz vs. Dallas Mavericks at home | 7:30 p.m. BYU football vs. Houston at home | 8:15 p.m. U of U men’s basketball vs. Eastern Washington at home | 3 p.m. USU women’s basketball vs. Stetson | 11 a.m. Weber State men’s basketball vs. Pepperdine or New Mexico State UVU women’s basketball vs. Omaha | 3 p.m. SUU men’s basketball vs. CSU Bakersfield | 6:30 p.m. Utah Tech women’s basketball vs. Westcliff at home | 2 p.m. Utah Grizzlies pickleball night vs. Indy Fuel | 7:10 p.m. |
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