BYU

Endowed BYU scholarship

The Intermountain Healthcare board of trustees will honor its outgoing president and CEO William H. Nelson by endowing a scholarship in his name for nursing students at Brigham Young University.

The scholarship will help provide tuition for one student each semester. Its first recipient is David Alden. Nelson graduated from BYU with a bachelor's degree in accounting and earned an MBA from the University of Southern California. Nelson joined Intermountain in 1975, the organization's startup year. He was appointed CEO in 1999. For more information, contact Rose Ann Jarrett at 422-4143.

Coming up ...

Tuesday

The women's soccer team will hold a goal-kicking competition, and there will be a dunk tank from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Brigham Square.

Wednesday

Karaoke and an appearance by the women's volleyball team from noon to 1 p.m. at Brigham Square.

Thursday

BYU full-time employees are invited to participate in the Day of Caring, sponsored by United Way of Utah County. The event will be from 7:30 a.m. to noon in the south end zone of LaVell Edwards Stadium. Full-time employees may receive for paid service hours by clearing attendance with immediate supervisors and registering with BYU's United Way coordinator, Phyllis Jensen, at phyllis_jensen@byu.edu.

BYUSA barbecue -- free hot dogs from noon to 1 p.m. at Brigham Square.

Friday

There will be a football quarterback challenge from noon to 1 p.m. at Brigham Square.

There will be a welcome week dance from 8-11:30 p.m. at Brigham Square. Cost is $3 with BYU ID, $5 without.

The Varsity Theater will show "Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian" at 6:15 p.m. and 9:10 p.m. Cost: $1.

UVU

FIRST SPEAKER

Rick Woodbury, President and CEO of Woodbury Corporation, will be at Utah Valley University to kick off the Executive Lecture Series as the first speaker of the school year. Woodbury's lecture will be at noon on Thursday in the Ragan Theater located in the Sorensen Center.

Woodbury's grandfather, F. Orin Woodbury, founded Woodbury Corp. in 1919, one of the oldest and most respected commercial real estate companies in the Mountain West. The Woodbury family has been supportive of UVU and recently donated $20 million to the Woodbury School of Business, making their donation the largest single gift UVU has received to date.

The Reed and Christine Halladay Executive Lecture Series is a series of weekly speakers who come from a variety of business backgrounds. They share their experiences and what they have learned in the business world. The lectures are Thursdays at noon and are free and open to the public.

College portrait sketched with numbers

Utah Valley University is participating in the Voluntary System of Accountability, a Web site that provides undergraduate data of campuses across the country. VSA uses a common template for all participating institutions to display similar information plus it provides additional links for institutions to add contextual information to profile their uniqueness as educational institutions. As an early adopter of the College Portrait, UVU is one of three public institutions in Utah participating in the initiative, and the first in the state to post its data on the UVU and VSA Web sites.

The portrait is accessible at www.uvu.edu and located at the bottom left corner of the Web page. For more information on VSA, go to www.voluntarysystem.org.

President search committee formed

State Board of Regents Chairman Jed Pitcher has announced the appointment of a 16-member search committee that will assist the board of regents in selecting the new president at UVU.

Regents Marlon O. Snow and John H. Zenger will chair the search, joined by regents Bonnie Jean Beesley and Joel Wright. Other committee members include UVU trustees Chairwoman Janette Hales Beckham, Dan Campbell, Scott Jenkins and President Joseph Watkins. Institutional and community representatives are also on the committee, including Provo Mayor Lewis Billings and Orem Mayor Jerry Washburn.

The search committee will hold public meetings this month where college faculty, staff, students and community members may provide input to help define the selection criteria.

The committee will establish a candidate pool and recommend finalists to the board of regents. Under regents' policy, the names of the finalists will be released to the public prior to a series of private interviews. It is anticipated that a new president will be selected by the end of the 2008- 2009 school year.

The public meeting for the Wasatch Campus (Heber/Park City) community will be Sept. 11, 2008, 6:30-8:30 p.m. at UVU Wasatch Campus, Lower Lobby, 3000 North Highway 40 in Heber. The meeting for UVU faculty, staff and students will be Sept. 16 from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the UVU Digital Learning Center in the Timpanogos Room. The meeting for the Orem and Provo community members will be Sept. 25 from 6-8 p.m. at the UVU Digital Leaning Center in the Lakeview Room.

Coming up ...

Monday

There will be an outdoor doubles volleyball tournament from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the northwest grass soccer field. Check-in and registration is from 8 a.m. to 8:45 a.m. with play starting at 9 a.m. The $25 on-site registration per player will be accepted on the morning of the tournament before 8:45 a.m. Contact the tournament director, Bob Ward, at 380-2003 for more details.

Wednesday

Monthly Ethics Forum will be "Great Thinkers in the History of Democracy." Janae Brown Hass, professor of history, will speak from 3-4:30 p.m. in LC 243.

Rocky Mt. University

Evidence-based practice symposium

On Aug. 1, Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions sponsored the 3rd Annual Evidence-based Practice Symposium at the Marriott Hotel and Conference Center in Provo. More than 40 athletic trainers, nurses, occupational therapists and physical therapists attended the symposium. Attendees listened to research presentations and lectures given by Stephen C. Allison, PT, Ph.D., Marthe J. Moseley, Ph.D., RN, CCRN, CCNS and Rebecca D. Reder, OTD, OTR/L. The 4th Annual Evidence-based Practice Symposium is scheduled to be held July 31, 2009.