Professors at Brigham Young University have generated more than $1 billion in revenue and company valuation in the last three years, both in university and personal earnings. Some of the revenue-generating products, however, have been years in the making. BYU professors generate hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue for the various startups and patents…
Walking into Station 22 is a different experience. You’re definitely stepping out of Provo and into a new world. The restaurant, located on Center Street in Downtown Provo, has been open for about two years. The interior of the restaurant was revamped five months ago, turning it from a gourmet sandwich shop into an Americana…
Provo’s restaurant scene is changing rapidly as an influx of investments pour into the development of downtown. Here are some restaurants that have started as restauranteurs make Provo their new food scene. Old Towne Grill Victor Sandoval, exeutive chef at Old Towne Grill, said he, along with the staff, wants to be a part of…
Winston Mason gets to his shop at 6 a.m. every morning and usually stays until 7 or 8 p.m. However, if he is working on a particular project, he can work up to 15 hours a day. Mason is a Native American silversmith and has spent the last year welding, melting, carving and piecing together…
The development of Provo’s downtown over the next few years is moving with the times, shaping up into more than just a commercial space. The Utah Valley Convention Center, which was completed in May 2012, will soon be followed by the completion of Nu Skin’s 164,000-sq.-foot Innovation Center next summer. The Provo City Center Temple…
Examinations at a university level can be intimidating, but below are some tips that keep tests at the Testing Center from being the scariest thing on BYU campus. Luke Chandler, a junior from Twin Falls, Idaho, majoring in organizational behavior, said he wished he had known there was a bathroom on the second floor. He…
Some students come to BYU, waiting to experience “the world is our campus.” For others, the world has been their campus long before they arrived here. Expatriates, known as “expats,” are those who have been uprooted from the country of their citizenship and live in a different country and culture. Expats typically move because of…
Story by Ee Chien Chua and Mason Porter Wesley LaPorte, a senior from Morgan Hill, Calif., was watching ABC news one day when he saw a feature story that said phones have 18 times more bacteria than a public restroom. Shocked, he went online and found other research all saying the same thing. LaPorte started working…
Elder Dallin H. Oaks, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, has been selected to address this year’s graduating class at commencement April 19. Before accepting a call as a member of the Church’s second-highest governing body in 1984, Elder Oaks was a judge on…
Juggling school and work isn’t the easiest thing to do. But what if you had to juggle school and running your own restaurant? Dave Furse and Chuckie Furse, brothers and co-owners of Dave and Cranky Chuckie’s, on the second floor at 746 E. 820 North, Provo, opened the restaurant four months ago. While this is their first restaurant,…