Not only will the University of Utah’s football team go head to head with the Utah State University (USU) Aggies in Logan next week, both university communities, long-time, instate rivals, will go for the most blood–literally–in a competitive blood drive prior to the Aug. 31 game. The winner will secure bragging rights and both schools will replenish much-needed local blood supplies.
Read MoreThe University of Utah’s David Eccles School of Business is proud to welcome Olivia R. Liu Sheng to its Information Systems department. Sheng is a respected expert in the field of Management of Information Systems, and her research interests include knowledge management, personalization and security technology for healthcare applications and business applications. Sheng has worked in developing systems for cancer informatics that have been used for data management and in clinical studies, including studies that evaluate various hypotheses like the impact of genetics or environment on the propensity to develop cancer.
Read MoreWhat is it about family structure that deters youths’ delinquency or promotes it?
Read MoreThis week 23-year-old Lupe Figueroa, a senior in Spanish and Human Communications at California State University Monterey Bay (CSUMB), will finish up eight weeks of graduate school-level research at the University of Utah. She is one of 23 students completing this year’s Summer Research Opportunity Program (SROP), sponsored campus-wide by the U’s Graduate School.
Read MoreIn the last decade, the popularity of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) has increased, leading to a steady increase in federal funding over the last five years. (Congress appropriated $4.4 billion for 2002, up from the $2.1 billion in 1990.) Yet much of WIC’s reputation has been built upon state-not nationally representative-evaluations mostly conducted more than a decade ago.
Read MoreMartha S. Bradley, associate professor of architecture in the University of Utah’s Graduate School of Architecture, has been named director of the University’s Honors Program. She succeeds Richard D. Rieke, who has served as the program’s director since 1995. Bradley will assume the position on Aug. 1 and will continue to teach part-time.
Read MoreIntergenerational day care programs, an innovative service that combines young children and older people in the same care facilities, have proliferated through the U.S. in the last decade. Goals of such programs have been to enhance the children’s learning, prevent substance abuse, transform ageist attitudes, provide mentoring, decrease isolation and build generational interdependence.
Read MoreDavid J. Bjorkman, M.D., M.S.P.H., senior associate dean of the University of Utah School of Medicine, has been selected to participate in a new national leadership development program for current and future medical school deans. Bjorkman is one of three individuals selected from among 16 applicants for the 2002-2003 Council of Deans Fellowship Program, sponsored by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC).
Read MoreJames Wood, Senior Economist at the Bureau of Economic and Business Research (BEBR), will serve as the Interim Director of the office at the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah. Wood was appointed to this position this week, following the death of R. Thayne Robson, long-time Director of BEBR in May. Wood will serve as Interim Director throughout a nationwide search, set to begin in September. He estimates the search may take up to a year. Following the appointment of a new Director, Wood will serve as Associate Director of BEBR.
Read MoreRecent assertions of the possibility of price manipulation in California and the West by Enron or other energy providers/brokers has prompted the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to conduct a fact-finding investigation. Dr. Hendrik Bessembinder, Blaine Huntsman Professor of Finance at the University of Utah’s David Eccles School of Business, will serve on the investigating committee, along with two other academics, two energy analyst consultants, and members of the FERC staff.
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