"The first day of school I knew we had a good team," said College of Eastern Utah's head basketball Coach Chris Craig. The third place in the nation CEU Golden Eagles were better than good this year ... they were scrappy, loose and had a great time beating nationally ranked teams.
"Right from the get-go I thought we had enough talent to be good, it was a question of chemistry and could we get everyone to work together," echoed first-year assistant coach Brad Barton.
The feeling was shared by Jonathan Mills, "I had a sense we had something special because everyone on this team has character and everybody had one mindset, one goal ... to go to Hutch and do something big."
"Every coach wants their team to peak in February and March," Craig said, and the Golden Eagles did just that, winning eight of their last nine regular season games with the only loss coming in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, from the Cardinals of North Idaho College who were ranked sixth in the nation...

The purpose of the Utah Campus Compact Statewide Recognition Event is to recognize the work of outstanding faculty, staff, students and community partners at member higher-education institutions on a statewide level.
All 13 colleges in Utah are members of the UCC. Each institution is encouraged to submit one award recipient from each of four categories: the committed community partner, civically engaged scholar, civically engaged staff member and civically engaged student.
Kate Alleman
The College of Eastern Utah SUN Center chose as the committed community partner Kate Alleman, who serves as the executive director of the United Way of Southeastern Utah. This award recognizes the individual and organization who strengthens community involvement at our institution, provides meaningful service and learning opportunities for students, and enhances their agency's mission/programs/goals by partnering with your institution.
SUN Center Director, Kathy Murray said...

When the H1N1 Swine Flu outbreak occurred last year, it sent a panic throughout communities.   The government was concerned that this might be "the one," an influenza outbreak that would jump the threshold, and mobilized quickly to develop a vaccine.   Within a few months they succeeded and the first shipments were being shipped across the country.  
As it turned out, H1N1 was a relatively mild epidemic, leaving health officials breathing a huge sigh of relief.   Given the history of the last great Influenza Pandemic, they had good cause to worry.  
In 1917 the Spanish Influenza killed around 50 million people worldwide (this coming on the heels of a world already traumatized by a horrific war waged through mechanization and chemical means), zoning in on young and healthy adults.
While incredibly relieved, health officials began to notice a disturbing trend that the American public was not fully participating in obtaining any of the two types of vaccines available...