Seventy years is a long time to live under the same roof. This April, the University of Utah’s College of Social Work celebrates its expanding horizons at the groundbreaking for its new Wilford W. and Dorothy P. Goodwill Humanitarian Building. The event will take place on April 30 from 4 to 5 p.m. on the grounds adjacent to the College of Social Work building, 395 South, 1500 East.
Read MoreResearch indicates that one acre of forest absorbs six tons of carbon dioxide and puts out four tons of oxygen, which is enough to meet the annual oxygen needs of 18 people. This Saturday, April 21, Bend-in-the-River welcomes Earth Day with a planting and celebration. The event will take place from 8:30 a.m. to noon at Bend-in-the-River, 1030 West Fremont Avenue (1100 South) and will include a light breakfast, planting, children’s activities sponsored by REI, lunch and presentation of community partner awards. The celebration is free and open to the public.
Read MoreIn North America there are only one-hundred-fifty-five native languages still in use. However, only twenty of those languages are actively being learned by children, according to Lyle Campbell, Director of the Center for American Indian Languages (CAIL), at the University of Utah. This fact underscores the importance of the upcoming “Conference on Endangered Languages and Cultures of Native America” to be held this Friday, April 13th though 15th, at the Chase M. Petersen Heritage Center, University of Utah campus. “Native American languages are becoming extinct at an alarming rate. It’s a crisis of enormous proportions,” says Campbell. “All sorts of knowledge, from moral and spiritual values, and cultural identity, as well as scientific knowledge, are only known and accessed though native languages. If we lose the language this knowledge is lost to humanity forever. It”s an irretrievable loss.”
Read MoreEach year the University of Utah’s College of Social Work recognizes the achievements of women in general and one woman in particular who exemplifies qualities of leadership, inclusiveness and integrity, and who has worked effectively to improve the lives of women and their families in Utah.
Held in honor of Belle Smith Spafford, this year”s seventh annual Belle S. Spafford Spring Roundtable will recognize Marilyn May Phillips as the sixth annual Spafford award recipient, in an event to take place on Monday, April 23 from 3 to 5 p.m. at the Marriot University Park Hotel, 480 Wakara Way.
The latest issue of U.S. News & World Report/America’s Best Graduate Schools shows that programs at the University of Utah are on the rise. And once again the U has, by far, the most programs recognized of any Utah university appearing in the annual rankings.
Read MoreFour University Neighborhood Partners (UNP) program coordinators will present brown bag conversation about the successful partnership models currently practiced through four campus-community partnerships at the University of Utah, Student Union, Room 161 on Friday, March 30, 2007, from 12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Read MoreThe Jack Kent Cooke Foundation today awarded a $1 million grant to the University of Utah as part of a $10 million nationwide initiative aimed at significantly increasing college enrollment and graduation among first-generation high school students. Following in the tradition of the AmeriCorps and Teach for America programs, the College Advising Corps initiative will recruit and train University of Utah seniors to work full time as advisers for one to two years following graduation.
Read MoreIt was announced today that Octavio Villalpando, an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy, has been selected as the new Associate Vice President for Diversity at the University of Utah. Senor Vice President for Academic Affairs, David W. Pershing, made the announcement saying, “Professor Villalpando will be a strong addition to my Academic Leadership team and to the University leadership in general.”
Read MoreMichael L. Hardman, professor and chair of the University of Utah’s Department of Special Education and the Department of Teaching and Learning, has been named dean of the U’s College of Education. Hardman replaces Dean Ted Packard, who has served as interim dean since May 2006, when former Dean David J. Sperry took a leave from the U and was hired as a scholar in residence by the Board of Regents.
Read MoreThe University of Utah’s Bureau of Economic and Business Research (BEBR) has just released an extensive demographic and socioeconomic study of Salt Lake County. The purpose of the study-commissioned by the County’s Aging Services Division-is to prepare all aspects of Salt Lake County and its local government entities for the coming age wave by building a better foundation of information for programs and services administered by Salt Lake County and local governments.
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