Do cities shape people, or people shape cities? This April, the University of Utah’s College of Architecture and Planning Honors Program will present an exhibition of student projects investigating the symbiotic relationship between communities and the spaces they inhabit.
Read MoreSoon after humans began domesticating dogs 12,000 to 15,000 years ago, they started breeding small canines. Now, scientists from the University of Utah and seven other institutions have identified a piece of doggy DNA that reduces the activity of a growth gene, ensuring that small breeds stay small.
Read MoreA new competition has come to the state of Utah, and its winner could end up in your living room or doctor’s office in the not so distant future. The Technology Titans Innovation Challenge (Tech Titans) is a state-wide idea competition organized by students from the University of Utah business and engineering schools.
Read MoreModern technology uses many frequencies of electromagnetic radiation for communication, including radio waves, TV signals, microwaves and visible light. Now, a University of Utah study shows how far-infrared light – the last unexploited part of the electromagnetic spectrum – could be harnessed to build much faster wireless communications and to detect concealed explosives and biological weapons.
Read MoreThe University of Utah has initiated a comprehensive planning effort, in response to strategic business, educational, and service initiatives, to develop a new Campus Master Plan. This effort will be driven by President Michael K. Young’s vision that he referred to in his inaugural address, as he spoke of “engagement, preparation, and partnership.”
Read MoreThe University of Utah has named Jim Boylen as the school’s 14th head men’s basketball coach, director of athletics Dr. Chris Hill announced today. Boylen, the top assistant at Michigan State University the past two years after spending 13 seasons coaching in the NBA, has agreed to a five-year contact worth $575,000 per year for base salary, radio and TV compensation and camps.
Read MoreSecretary Madeleine K. Albright, president of the Harry S Truman Scholarship Foundation, announced University of Utah’s Bryson Morgan as one of 65 students selected from 56 U.S. colleges and universities as a 2007 Truman Scholar.
Read More“The way you live your life is inherently a political act,” quotes honors student Katie Trieu, referring to a statement posed at the beginning of a unique semester-long course that took her and 18 other students to the heart of Hurricane Katrina’s destruction in New Orleans. The honors service-learning course opened their eyes to the economic, political, social, and health issues related to the disaster. The trip to New Orleans brought the issues home.
Read MoreThe Utah Science Center and the University of Utah will host the 2007 Salt Lake Valley Science and Engineering Fair March 28-29 on the 4th and 5th floor of The Tower at Rice-Eccles Stadium on the university campus. The 2007 event is expected to be the largest Salt Lake Valley Science and Engineering Fair ever, with 237 entries, compared with 183 entries last year. Students in grades five through 12 from Salt Lake, Granite, Murray and Tooele school districts will participate. Select projects from grades K-4 will also be featured. In addition, several exhibits from the Leonardo on Wheels-Science, the science center’s educational outreach program, will be on display.
Read MoreA group of 18 researchers — including University of Utah mathematician Peter Trapa — has solved a math problem so complicated that the calculation, if written out, would cover an area the size of Manhattan. It also is 60 times larger than the amount of information in the human genome, or human genetic blueprint.
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