Campus Life – Page 87 – UNews Archive

U of U’s Development Vice President to Retire After Record Thirty Plus Years

Categories:

Campus Life

After more than three decades at the helm of The University of Utah’s fund-raising efforts, J. Michael Mattsson, vice president for development, announced his retirement effective June 30, 2005. Mattsson recently informed his staff that, “This has been a momentous decision for me, but the time has come.” Mattsson, who has agreed to serve as President Michael K.Young’s special assistant for development-related matters following retirement, said that “the Mike Young presidency will be a golden era for this institution, especially in the area of development. All of us can look forward to exciting, productive, and progressive years ahead.”

March 25, 2011

Fans Invited to Fiesta with the Utes!

Categories:

Campus Life

Fans played a big role in the success of this year’s Ute Football team and so it’s only fitting that they be invited to celebrate the team’s undefeated season and Fiesta Bowl victory. The University of Utah will hold a Ute football celebration prior to the Utah/New Mexico basketball game on Jan. 22. The party is free to all and will get underway at 11:45 a.m. in a heated tent just outside the Huntsman Center. Tip-off for the game is 1 p.m.

March 25, 2011

New Painkiller Was Born in Utah

Categories:

Campus Life

The natural form of Prialt – a new drug for severe pain approved this week by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration – was discovered at the University of Utah in 1979 by an incoming freshman studying toxins produced by cone snails.

March 25, 2011

A Faraday Farewell

Categories:

Campus Life

With 30 experiments that explode, change colors and delight an audience of children and adults, University of Utah chemists Ronald Ragsdale and Jerry Driscoll will dress as 19th century chemists and deliver the annual Faraday Christmas Lectures for a 24th and final year.

March 25, 2011

Singing in the Brain

Categories:

Campus Life

University of Utah scientists taught baby sparrows to sing a complete song even though the birds were exposed only to overlapping segments of the tune rather than the full melody. The study provides clues about how musical memories are stored in the brain and how those memories help birds learn to sing.

March 25, 2011

Did Our Sun Capture Alien Worlds?

Categories:

Campus Life

Computer simulations show a close encounter with a passing star about 4 billion years ago may have given our solar system its abrupt edge and put small, alien worlds into distant orbits around our sun.

March 25, 2011

University of Utah Study Suggests Cellular Waste to Blame for a Form of Blinding Eye Disease

Categories:

Campus Life

Gene mutations that impair the ability of photoreceptor cells to properly dispose of waste – and as a result cause the blinding eye disease retinitis pigmentosa – have been identified by vision researchers at the University of Utah’s Moran Eye Center. The discovery raises concerns that carbonic anhydrase inhibitors (medications often used to treat both heart and eye diseases) may adversely affect vision. The study is published in the November 24, 2004 online version of the journal Human Molecular Genetics.

March 25, 2011

How Running Made Us Human

Categories:

Campus Life

Humans evolved from ape-like ancestors because they needed to run long distances – perhaps to hunt animals or scavenge carcasses on Africa’s vast savannah – and the ability to run shaped our anatomy, making us look like we do today.

March 25, 2011

University of Utah Vision Researchers Identify Genetic Cause of Rare Eye Disease in Utah Family

Categories:

Campus Life

Vision researchers at the University of Utah’s John A. Moran Eye Center have discovered a gene mutation responsible for causing a rare disease in four generations of a single Utah family. The discovery is reported in a recent issue of The American Journal of Ophthalmology (November 2004).

March 25, 2011

Gene Mutations Responsible for Childhood Cataracts Discovered by University of Utah Vision Researchers

Categories:

Campus Life

Gene mutations responsible for causing cataracts in children have been identified by a team of University of Utah vision researchers. The discovery was reported in a recent issue of The Journal of Medical Genetics.

March 25, 2011