City Manager’s Cup Goes to the U, Defeats Rival in Contest

Pitting rivals University of Utah and Brigham Young University in the academic arena, the Utah City Manager’s Cup is no less intense than a good sports match. In a battle of public management ideas, U of U MPA (Master of Public Administration) students Matt McEwen and Michael Florence won the traveling Cup held annually by the Utah City Manager’s Association (UCMA).

Hurricane Forecasts Improved by Utah Meteorologist

A method to improve forecasts of when and where hurricanes will make landfall — and how strong they will be at the time — has been devised by Zhaoxia Pu, an assistant professor of meteorology at the University of Utah.

U to Help Build Bionic Arm

University of Utah researchers will receive up to $10.3 million to help develop a new prosthetic arm that would work, feel and look like a real arm. The Utah work is a key part of a U.S. Department of Defense contract worth up to $55 million to develop the new device for soldiers and potentially others whose arms were amputated.

Pioneer in Health-Care Computer Technology is Keynote Speaker at Annual U of U Health Sciences InfoFair

In 1960, Donald A. B. Lindberg, M.D., began exploring how computer technology could be used in health care. Almost 50 years later, the country’s senior statesman for medicine and computers is still helping shape the future. Lindberg will share his experiences and speak about access to truthful and relevant scientific information on Tuesday, April 25 at 9:30 a.m. at the University of Utah’s Spencer F. and Cleone P. Eccles Health Sciences Education Building.

U Meteorologist in CloudSat Mission

University of Utah meteorologist Gerald “Jay” Mace plans to be at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., at 4:02 a.m. MDT this Friday April 21 when a pair of NASA satellites are launched to study Earth’s clouds and aerosol haze and learn more about how they affect global warming.

Bitter Truth: Humans, Chimps Developed Ability to Taste Toxic Compounds Through Separate Genetic Mutations

Humans and chimpanzees share the ability to taste, or not taste, a bitter synthetic compound called PTC-as well as numerous other sour and toxic substances-but contrary to longstanding scientific thought, they developed that ability through separate genetic mutations, according to new research led by a University of Utah and University of Washington geneticists Stephen Wooding, Ph.D., and Michael Bamshad, M.D.

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U Biologist Named a ‘Million-Dollar Professor’

Baldomero “Toto” Olivera, a University of Utah biologist who has spent his career developing new medicines from the toxins of deadly cone snails, has won a four-year, $1 million award as one of 20 new “Million-Dollar Professors” named by the prestigious Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI).

2006 Science Fair Announces Award Winners

The Utah Science Center and the University of Utah today announced the winners of the 2006 Salt Lake Valley Science and Engineering Fair. The 2006 fair was held at The Tower at Rice-Eccles Stadium, on the University of Utah campus March 30-31. Students in grades five through 12 from Salt Lake, Granite, Murray and Tooele school districts competed.

Film Examining Manhood in Hip-Hop Culture to Be Screened at U of U

Filmmaker Byron Hurt will be at the University of Utah for a screening and panel discussion of his film “Beyond Beats and Rhymes: A Documentary about Manhood in Hip-Hop Culture,” on Thursday, at 7 p.m., in the Social and Behavioral Science Auditorium, 380 S. 1530 E., on the University of Utah campus. Sponsored by the U’s Women”s Resource Center, the Associated Students of the University of Utah (ASUU) and the Utah Coalition Against Sexual Assault (UCASA), the event free and open to the public.