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Real men shave with an axe and drive cement trucks

Real men shave with an axe and drive cement trucks

Zac Watts November 22, 2018

I was lifting weights at the gym this morning, and a man roughly my age walked in behind me as I was doing dumbbell bicep curls. He walked up to the dumbbell rack, then paused. Out of the corner of my...

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Signpost members recount their Trek experiences

Daryn Steed July 18, 2018

Zac WattsPioneer Trek offered 16-year-old me a chance to understand a small fraction of the sacrifice many of my ancestors made nearly two hundred years ago to settle the Salt Lake Valley and beyond. It...

Members of The Signpost editorial staff pose with their awards. (The Signpost)

Signpost celebrates superiority

Harrison Epstein April 18, 2018

The Signpost took home 17 awards, including General Excellence in Group Five, at the Utah Press Association awards banquet. The Signpost received seven first-place awards, three second-place awards and...

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What to expect from your college workload

Zac Watts March 30, 2018

Coming into college, freshmen can find themselves crumbling under the weight of a workload they weren’t prepared for. Whether it’s more homework than they’re used to or more involved...

Performance enhancer claims to give gamers an edge

Performance enhancer claims to give gamers an edge

Zac Watts March 16, 2018

A new supplement that claims to be “the world’s first energy shot for your brain” promises gamers enhanced performance, improved clarity and quicker reaction times. GodMode’s target...

Registration Schedule Builder will be available beginning summer semester 2018. Photo credit: Casey Bullock

New registration software adapts to students’ work schedules

Zac Watts February 23, 2018

Starting summer semester 2018, Weber State University’s registrar is rolling out new software that will automatically populate available classes in accordance with students' work schedules. Casey...

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Outdoor Weber offers $30,000 to think outside the box

Zac Watts February 10, 2018

Outdoor Weber, a competition organized by Weber State University’s Hall Global Entrepreneurship Center, has received over 100,000 site visits and over 80 submissions from all over the United States. Brandon...

Ahmed Bouzid, CEO at Witlingo, talks to the audience about the benefits of voice first during his lecture on Jan. 26 as a part of Lingofest. Photo credit: Chloe Walker

Lingofest: the voices of the future

Zac Watts January 31, 2018

Representatives from Amazon, Google, Comcast and several other telecom companies gathered at Weber State University on January 25 and 26 for the inaugural Lingofest, an annual voice-command technology...

Parts of the machine built by the New Bridge School team, the Goldberg Knights. (Joshua Wineholt / The Signpost)

Rube Goldberg machine contest builds engineers of the future

Zac Watts January 19, 2018

High school, junior high and elementary school students came together Jan. 19 for an annual Utah Air Force Association and Weber State University Rube Goldberg Competition. Designed to make the simplest...

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Finding jobs begins with a Handshake

Zac Watts January 12, 2018

Handshake, a college career recruiting web program and smartphone app, has come to Weber State University. With over 475 university career centers and 200,000 employers in its wheelhouse, Handshake aims...

Robot Sophia. (Wikimedia)

Meet Sophia, the world’s first robot citizen

Zac Watts November 29, 2017

Saudi Arabia made history on Oct. 25 by declaring Sophia, a highly advanced, human-like robot, its first artificially intelligent citizen. Sophia is not only Saudi Arabia’s first robot citizen but...

Fallout shelter sign in the Technical Education Building at Weber State. (Sara Parker / The Signpost)

WSU alum and designer of iconic fallout shelter symbol dies at 95

Zac Watts November 18, 2017

To anyone who has seen a propaganda film from the 1960s, the iconic fallout shelter design is probably familiar. What may not be as familiar, however, is that its late creator was Ogden native and Weber...

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