President Young, distinguished faculty and guests, my fellow students, friends and family: Rumi, the great Sufi mystic and the most widely read poet around the world once said, “Your soul is worth more than the heavens and the earth; don’t sell it at a lower price.”
Read MoreCornea disease and refractive surgery specialist, Majid Moshirfar, M.D., F.A.C.S., of the John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah performed the first ever laser-based cornea transplant in Utah on April 20, 2007.
Read MoreThe Thursday, May 3, 2007 issue of the journal Nature contains a study co-authored by Tom Kursar, a University of Utah biologist also affiliated with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama.
University of Utah mathematician Christopher Hacon has received one of his field’s top honors, while biologist Baldomero “Toto” Olivera and biochemist Brenda Bass were elected to the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Read MoreThe University of Utah’s Center for Disability Services is happy to announce the first ever Sorenson Legacy Foundation Scholarship for Disabled students currently enrolled at the University of Utah. The scholarship is funded by the Sorenson Legacy Foundation.
Read MoreSome students search for employment for months after graduation, but for students involved in the University of Utah’s Lassonde New Venture Development Center (NVDC), it seems that employment is searching for them.
Read MoreRising salary offers to new graduates and a 20 percent increase in hiring projections for 2006-7 should give the class of 2007 something to celebrate beyond commencement.
Read MoreAdventure seekers and curious wanderers will thrill at the opportunity to experience the University of Utah in an exciting new way at “Terra Animus,” an invigorating walk through campus celebrating landscape, creativity and the arts. The event, free and open to the public, will take place April 27 and 28 at 6 p.m. beginning on lawn at the University of Utah President’s Circle. Free parking will be available at the University Bookstore visitor’s lot.
Read MorePeople have worshipped the sun for all of recorded history, and it shows. Skin cancer is the most common cancer in the United States and is reshaping norms of outdoor work and play, beauty and health. This April 24, in celebration of Skin Cancer Awareness Day, the University of Utah’s Student Health Center and Student Health Advisory Committee will host the Cancer Research and Prevention Foundation (CRPF) campaign “Save Your Skin.” The event will take place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Tanner Plaza, located east of the student services building.
Read MoreApril 13, 2007 — British composer Judith Bingham has been described as a rare thing in contemporary music, a composer whose music “has the ability to connect and communicate with its audience on an immediate and direct level.”
This April 22, the University of Utah Singers will perform the Utah premiere of Bingham’s Ghost Towns of the American West. The three-act event will take place at 7:30 p.m. in Libby Gardner Concert Hall and will be followed by a reception for the composer.