Attention bibliophiles and bargain hunters: The University of Utah Bookstore now offers used and discounted books, making it easier for readers to purchase volumes for less.
Read MoreThe University of Utah announced today that Rosemarie Hunter, Ph.D., LCSW, has been selected as Special Assistant to the President for Campus Community Partnerships. In that role she will serve as the new director of University Neighborhood Partners (UNP). She will replace Irene Fisher, who retires July 29. UNP, a department of the University, brings together the University and communities on the west side of Salt Lake City “for reciprocal learning, action, and benefit” to develop programs and partnerships that allow youth and their parents access to higher education.
Read MoreR.J. (Reuben Joseph) Snow, beloved former University of Utah administrator, died suddenly Tuesday, June 6, 2006, as a result of a car accident. During his 12 years at the University, from 1973 until 1985, Snow made meaningful and far-reaching contributions, both as a faculty member and as an administrator. He joined the U* as a staff assistant to University President David P. Gardner. He was an associate professor of political science, vice president for University Relations (and later Student and University Relations) and the director of the U’s Hinckley Institute of Politics, positions in which he served and excelled simultaneously.
Read MoreEvery year Utah children are seriously injured and killed when they’re hit by a vehicle backing out of a driveway. But a child is up to 2 ½ times more likely to be backed over by a minivan or truck than by a car, according to a University of Utah study.
Read MoreTwelve American Indian Students from the University of Utah, American Indian Teacher Training Program, graduated in May. The students represent four different tribes (Navajo, Zuni, Northern Arapaho and Salt River Pima-Maricopa). College degrees in hand, the graduates have a remarkable opportunity to make significant inroads into educational opportunities for American Indian students. They empower themselves ~ and in turn, they empower their communities.
Read MoreThe University of Utah and potentially all of Utah’s colleges, schools, libraries and state agencies, have gained a new, ultrahigh-speed, $1.25 million connection to cyberspace: a national fiber-optic network named National LambdaRail.
Read MoreThe National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) announced today that the University of Utah’s athletics program is in substantial conformity with operating principles adopted by the Association’s Division I membership and as a result has been certified. The purpose of the certification program, which all Division I institutions undergo every 10 years, is to ensure integrity in the U’s athletics operations.
Read MoreAtmospheric temperature measurements by U.S. weather satellites indicate Earth’s hot, tropical zone has expanded farther from the equator since 1979, says a study by scientists from the University of Utah and University of Washington.
Read MoreEugene Loh, University of Utah distinguished professor emeritus of physics, has died of kidney cancer at age 72 after a career in which he pioneered the university’s world-renowned effort to determine the mysterious source of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays, the most energetic particles in the universe.
Read MoreToday and tomorrow, Thad Hall, a nationally recognized voting expert and assistant professor of political science at the University of Utah, will present an update on his research about best practices in vote counting and recounting to the United States Election Assistance Commission (EAC) Standards Board and its Board of Advisors in Washington, D.C.
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