The University of Utah’s College of Social Work has cause to cheer this week as it celebrates its 70th anniversary and capital campaign announcement at a party on Wednesday, March 7, from 2 to 3 p.m. to be held in the College of Social Work atrium, 395 South 1500 East, Salt Lake City.
Read MoreWalter Arabasz, director of the University of Utah Seismograph Stations, is one of two Utah residents named to a panel that will provide advice to the federal program aimed at reducing the earthquake threat to life and property.
Read More“When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change,” writes American author Ursula Le Guin. Women’s Week 2007 at the University of Utah (the U), to be held next week, March 9 through 15, will explore the changing map of motherhood through shared experience of its challenges, complications and new definitions. All Women’s Week events are free and open to the public.
Read MoreThe Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) recently released its survey of 2005 commercialization results for 228 universities, and the University of Utah again ranks among the top 25 schools in the country. No other Utah university placed in the top 100.
Read MoreFew economists can claim to have the ear of the President. Dr. Edward P. Lazear, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors, does, and will share his insights at the University of Utah (the U) in a lecture titled “The Transformed United States Economy.” The talk will take place on Monday, March 5 from 9:40 to 10:30 a.m. at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts Dumke auditorium. The event is free and open to the public.
Read MoreThe rewards of serving others will be the focus of a talk by Josephine K. Olsen during this year’s University of Utah Alumni Association Founders Day celebration. Olsen, deputy director of the Peace Corps, is one of five Founders Day recipients being honored by the Alumni Association. Her address, Giving Your All & Getting Back More: The Transformative Power of Service, will be delivered on Monday, March 5, 3 to 4 p.m. at the Alumni House, Burbidge Board Room, 155 So. Central Campus Drive. The talk is free, but the public is asked to RSVP by calling 801-581-6995.
Read MoreAmartya Sen, distinguished economist, philosopher, Nobel laureate and Lamont University Professor at Harvard will speak on Friday, March 2 at noon at Libby Gardner Hall. The talk, titled “Violence in Identity,” is part of the “Values & Violence: Intangible Aspects of Terrorism” conference, sponsored by the Institute of Public & International Affairs (IPIA), the College of Social and Behavioral Science, the Barbara L. & Norman C. Tanner Center for Nonviolent Human Rights Advocacy, and the S.J. Quinney College of Law.
Read More“Cybersafe Your Teens,” a one-hour discussion forum hosted by Doug Fabrizio, will air Feb. 26 at 9 p.m. on KUED-Channel 7. It will explore practical ways parents can keep their children safe on the Internet. The program will be repeated March 1 at 8 p.m. and again March 3 at 7 p.m. on KUEN Channel 9.
Read MoreCouples are divorcing less yet spending more time apart, claims Dr. Paul Amato in his new book Alone Together: How Marriage in America is Changing. Paul Amato, internationally known scholar and professor of sociology, demography, and family studies at The Pennsylvania State University, will speak on America’s changing marital norms at the Mary Lowe Family Policy Lecture on Friday, Feb. 23 at 12 p.m. in the University of Utah Fine Arts Auditorium. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Read MoreEmpowering Black Girls to Live Their Legacy” is the theme of a new leadership conference for Black teenage girls. The conference will be held Friday, February 16 from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the A. Ray Olpin Union, Panorama East Room, on the University of Utah campus. The conference is designed to support Black high school girls by providing positive interaction with Black women mentors in ways that promote academic, career, and physical well-being success.
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