The University of Utah today announced that the W.M. Keck Foundation awarded $1 million to university researchers to study high-energy cosmic rays in Utah’s western deserts that are hurtling their way toward Earth. These rays — 10 trillion times more energetic than particles emitted in a nuclear explosion — originate from violent cosmic events deep within the universe.
Read MoreJosh Bonkowsky, M.D., Ph.D, assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Utah, has received a prestigious Director’s New Innovator Award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Read MoreBiology Professor Erik M. Jorgensen is spending a year working in Germany, thanks to his selection as a recipient of the Humboldt Research Award.
Read MoreEarly in Homecoming Week 2012, an announcement from University of Utah President David W. Pershing has already given students reason to celebrate. This morning he kicked off the week’s activities with news of a $3 million “capstone” grant from the George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Foundation for a much-anticipated new Student Life Center.
Read MoreMatthew R. López will join the University of Utah as director of admissions, a new position resulting from the merger of student recruitment and admissions. His appointment is effective Sept. 17, 2012.
Read MoreA University of Utah surgeon who for 20 years has traveled the world improving urologic care and access to surgery for people in undeveloped nations has been awarded the 2012 American College of Surgeons/Pfizer Surgical Humanitarian Award.
Read MoreMarty Shaub, managing director of environmental health and safety and emergency management, was one of 71 candidates approved by the IAEM USA-Certification Commission to receive the Certified Emergency Manager® (CEM®) credential. The CEM® designation is the highest honor of professional achievement available from the International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM), which has in its membership […]
Read MoreThe September issue of the National Jurist, a leading news source in legal education, names the University of Utah’s S.J. Quinney College of Law among the top 20 law schools for both “best value” and “most innovative.”
Read MoreThe David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah today announced Jay Barney, one of the country’s leading experts on strategy and strategic management, is joining the school as a Presidential Professor of Strategic Management and as Lassonde Chair of Social Entrepreneurship. He comes to the Eccles School after 18 years at Ohio State University.
Read MoreUniversity of Utah Department of Medicine researchers have received $16 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to set up a translational research center to study the cellular and molecular causes of blood clots, a serious threat to millions of people who have diabetes, are obese or have other metabolic disorders.
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