Leadership

LAYTON — Hundreds of students from across the state of Utah gathered at the Davis Conference Center on Thursday to share the knowledge they have gained in the subjects of family and consumer sciences.

The Utah Family, Career, and Community Leaders of America held its annual conference, where middle school and high school students competed in 28 subject areas ranging from culinary arts and nutrition to interior design and childhood education.

OGDEN — New Weber State University President Chuck Wight traveled light for his first day on the job Wednesday.

He brought in a few sentimental reminders of his 28 years as a chemistry professor and administrator at the University of Utah. His vintage junior chemistry set, like the one that set him on his career path during boyhood, went into a glass-doored cabinet. So did a wooden gavel, a colleague’s gift after Wight retired as president of the U of U faculty senate.

But on the desktop in Wight’s small office sit items directly related to his Weber State University future: a journal for recording thoughts and seeds of ideas; a short stack of ties in Weber State purple; and a university-issued mail inbox, already overflowing.

FORT WAYNE, Ind. — Myanmar’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi reiterated a call Tuesday for the lifting of sanctions against her impoverished country, and vowed to use her new parliamentary role to foment more change.

Thousands of elated supporters greeted Suu Kyi with cheers, tears and a standing ovation as she took to the stage at the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum in Fort Wayne, Ind., the fourth stop on her 17-day U.S. tour.

Sixty-seven-year-old Suu Kyi, who was recently elected to parliament after spending 15 years under house arrest for opposing Myanmar’s military rulers, voiced optimism for democracy in her Southeast Asian home.

JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. — A Weber State University student has been presented the Association of the United States Army Leadership Excellence Award at the U.S. Army Cadet Command’s Leader Development and Assessment Course or LDAC.

Timothy DeLeon, of Roy, ranked first among his training regiment of more than 400 Army Cadets at the 29-day Leader Development and Assessment Course, also known as Operation Warrior Forge — the capstone training and assessment exercise for the Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps.

LANDER -- Jennifer Adams held the rope, leaned back and stepped over the rock ledge

OGDEN -- Weber State University will host a "Preparing for the 'Real World'" conference April 27 and 28.

The multicultural conference, aimed at high school students, will feature keynote speakers, workshops for students and advisers, and a talent show. All events will emphasize college options, leadership roles and cultural identity.

The conference is free for students who register, including an overnight stay at a local hotel and shuttle transportation to and from events. For more information or to register, visit www.weber.edu/myc.

OGDEN — Liftoff was touch and go for the cockpit crew of the orbiter Phoenix. For one thing, the astronauts got only little more than an hour of mission training, as opposed to the 18 months usually required by NASA.

Then there was the fact that the ground staffs of both Mission Control and the Operations Center, also new to their jobs, could not pronounce some of the complex names of the technical systems they were trying to power up and lock down. And to top it off, there was the distracting group of kindergartners standing around a piano in the hallway, singing about colors and raindrops.