Tom Williams
UPR Management | Program Director | Access Utah HostTom Williams worked as a part-time UPR announcer for a few years and joined Utah Public Radio full-time in 1996. He is a proud graduate of Uintah High School in Vernal and Utah State University (B. A. in Liberal Arts and Master of Business Administration.) He grew up in a family that regularly discussed everything from opera to religion to politics. He is interested in just about everything and loves to engage people in conversation, so you could say he has found the perfect job as host “Access Utah.” He and his wife Becky, live in Logan.
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Every year for Earth Day, we check in with writer and photographer Stephen Trimble, author of “Bargaining for Eden: The Fight for the Last Open Spaces in America,” and many other books. He, alongside other guests join this episode to discuss plans for the environment under a reelected Biden administration, and under a second Trump administration.
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Tribune reporters Palak Jayswal, Emily Anderson Stern and Andy Larsen join this week to talk about the week’s top stories, including Natalie Cline losing her Utah school board seat.
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Today we’ll talk with Christopher Cokinos about his book Still As Bright: An Illuminating History of the Moon from Antiquity to Tomorrow.
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Heidi Kühn is our guest for this episode. Through the nonprofit organization Roots of Peace, which she founded in 1997, Kühn has led initiatives to restore agriculture in former conflict zones, restore soil health, enhance food security, support livelihoods and help sustain local communities with new sources of food and income.
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Today we’ll check in with reporter Alex Hager. You hear his reporting from the Colorado River Reporting Project regularly on UPR.
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Our guest today is Jason Grygla, Executive Director and Founder of Techie for Life. He’ll give a talk tomorrow at noon in the Dunford Auditorium at Utah Tech University in St. George. His talk is titled Neurodiversity: A Renaissance of Development and Needed Diversity. The talk is part of Utah Tech’s Trailblazing Speaker Series.
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Tribune reporters Anastasia Hufham, Palak Jayswal and Emily Anderson Stern, along with news columnist Robert Gehrke join to talk about the week’s top stories, including efforts to reduce pressure on a cracked Panguitch dam.
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The Natural History Museum of Utah will host a panel discussion next week on the opportunities and challenges presented by the rapid adoption of Artificial Intelligence in Utah industries.
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On this episode we talk with USU professor Tammy Proctor and several students in her sports history class about a project they’re calling Sliding Into History: The Legacy of USU Women's Softball Champions 1980 – 1981.
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In her ninth collection of poems, Ghost Apples, Katharine Coles interrogates and celebrates her relationship with the natural world and the various creatures who inhabit it.