http://www.suu.edu/news/Recent headlines from the campus of Southern Utah University.60http://www.suu.edu/news/viewarticle.aspx?id=712In its fifth year as a four-year degree at Southern Utah University, the nursing program consistently provides a high level of commitment to student success and a programmatic depth that ensures SUU’s students receive the very best in their nursing education. With a growing applicant pool year after year, the still young program is attracting and graduating the highest caliber students, providing a springboard into professional excellence. Considering its fast rise to success and the strength...http://www.suu.edu/news/viewarticle.aspx?id=711The Southern Utah University Small Business Development Center (SBDC) is calling all entrepreneurs to submit their business idea into the fourth annual Best Business Idea Competition over the next month. Through the competition, entrants will receive professional feedback on their business ideas, as each budding entrepreneur vies for a $3,000 grand prize to help fund the development of the winning idea. The Best Business Idea Competition is open to all SUU students as well as to all interest...http://www.suu.edu/news/viewarticle.aspx?id=710The Southern Utah University Ballroom Dance Company will present World of Dance in conjunction with the SUU Polynesian Club, SUU Hip Hop Club, Waukeenyans, SUU Percussion Ensemble, SUU Theatre and Dance Department, Cedar Junior Ballet and Cedar High School’s "Mohey Tawa" Drill Team on November 13 and 14, at 7:30 p.m. in the Heritage Center Theater. The event will offer audience members an evening of cultural education and unique entertainment. The varied forms and cultures of dance...http://www.suu.edu/news/viewarticle.aspx?id=709SUU instrumental ensembles will give concerts featuring music written for specific instrumental sections. The Woodwind and Brass ensembles will perform on Monday, November 16, 2009, and the String and Piano ensembles will perform on Tuesday, November 17, 2009. Both performances will take place in Thorley Recital Hall at 7:30 p.m. Admission to the events is free, and the public is invited to attend. The Brass Ensemble will perform on Monday, November 16, 2009, under the direction of Dr. Mark S...http://www.suu.edu/news/viewarticle.aspx?id=708The Southern Utah University Department of Music will present Opera Scenes: “Vixens, Rascals and Saints” on Friday and Saturday, November 13 and 14, at 7:30 p.m. in Thorley Recital Hall. “Vixens, Rascals and Saints” will feature a variety of scenes from operas and musical theatre, including selections from “Sweeney Todd,” Mozart’s opera “The Marriage of Figaro,” “Wicked,” and “The Sound of Music.” Students enrolled in SUU’s Opera/Musical Theatre course, taught by SUU Professor of Music Car...http://www.suu.edu/news/viewarticle.aspx?id=707SUU's School of Business will continue this year's Wells Fargo Business Executive Speaker Series with a presentation by Dane Leavitt, chairman and CEO of Leavitt Group Enterprises, on Thursday, November 12, at 11:30 a.m. in the Sharwan Smith Center Theater. This presentation, where Leavitt will address a number of business topics in a presentation focused on crisis management, is free and open to the public. Dane Leavitt has served in his current position as chairman and CEO of Leavitt Gr...http://www.suu.edu/news/viewarticle.aspx?id=706Last year, 92 percent of all SUU applicants were accepted into graduate health programs, the University's largest percentage of successful applicants ever. And now that midterms have come and gone, and SUU’s most recent pre-health graduates have all settled in to the grueling schedule that goes along with their new health programs, these soon-to-be doctors and dentists are looking back on their undergraduate experience at Southern Utah University with gratitude. 2009 SUU graduate Laura Fi...http://www.suu.edu/news/viewarticle.aspx?id=704President Barack Obama signed the Senate Fiscal Year 2010 Energy and Water Appropriations Bill into law today and, with a stroke of his pen, granted $1 million to Southern Utah University for its new Science Complex, the Walter Maxwell Gibson Science Center. Referenced as the Southern Utah University Science Center Energy Efficiency Modernization and Enhancement Project in the bill championed by Senator Bob Bennett (R-Utah) as the leading Republican on the Senate Energy and Water Appropriatio...http://www.suu.edu/news/viewarticle.aspx?id=705Southern Utah University’s campus radio station, KSUU, collected eleven awards at the 24th annual Utah Broadcasters Association UBEE Awards on November 4 in Salt Lake City. KSUU, Power 91, earned seven gold and four silver awards in the competition that features the creative efforts of the radio and television industry in the state of Utah during the past year. Students were recognized for their outstanding work for the Best 30 and 60 second commercials as well as promotional messages and...http://www.suu.edu/news/viewarticle.aspx?id=703War veterans of the United States of America will be honored in Southern Utah University's 22nd Annual Veterans Day Observance Program. The ceremony will take place on Wednesday, November 11 at 11 a.m. in the Sharwan Smith Center Ballroom. The public is encouraged to attend this event in honor of the veterans' service to our country. While honoring the service of all veterans, the program will specifically recognize a few individuals close to home. This year's honorees include WWII veteran ...