Astronomer and best-selling author Ken Croswell will speak at the University of Utah on Tuesday Feb. 24 as part of a 15-city, nationwide tour promoting his latest book, “Magnificent Mars.”
Read MoreRussia’s top-level junior age volleyball players will be arriving in Utah on Friday to participate in the Moscow-Utah Youth Games. These games are the winter edition of the Moscow-Utah summer games held in Russia last year. Over 300 of Utah’s finest athletes competed in the summer games in twelve different sports last July. Volleyball is the only sport involved in both the summer and winter edition of these games and promises to offer an exciting rematch between these two teams.
Read MoreThe University of Utah’s Department of Economics will present a public lecture, “The American Economy: Strategic Alternatives for Peace and Security,” by James Kenneth Galbraith, former executive director of the United States Congress Joint Economic Committee, on Monday, Feb. 2nd, at 12:30, in the Olpin Union East Ballroom on the University of Utah campus.
Read MoreMore than two dozen University of Utah undergraduate students will join counterparts from Utah State University in presenting “Research on the Hill: A Celebration of Undergraduate Research” to Utah State Legislators on Thursday, Jan. 22, from 8 a.m. until 1 p.m., in the rotunda of the State Capitol. The event, now in its fourth year, gives lawmakers the opportunity to review the high quality of education available to undergraduate students at the state’s two public research institutions as demonstrated in the opportunities presented to them to pursue research activities at the cutting-edge in health and physical sciences, engineering, social sciences and creative activities.
Read MoreFor the first time, The University of Utah Winterfest celebration will team up with Salt Lake City to help promote its second annual Illumination Parade.
Read MoreThe Union Board of the A. Ray Olpin University Union and the Associated Students of the University of Utah (ASUU) at the University of Utah will host the grand opening for the Campus Organization Resource Center (the CORC) located on the fourth floor of the University Union. The event is set to take place on January 21st, 2004 at 12:30 in the afternoon in the K-UTE Listening Lounge on the fourth floor of the University Union.
Read MoreThe University of Utah and a group of Japanese and U.S. universities plan to build a $17 million to $18 million cosmic ray observatory named the Telescope Array in central Utah’s Millard County. It will try to determine the mysterious source of the most energetic particles in the universe.
Read MoreThis year the University of Utah will present at least ten Chicano Scholarship Awards of $1,000 each to new freshman, transfer and current University undergraduate and graduate students. Scholarships of lesser value will be awarded as well. The ten scholarships are awarded to high school seniors and other college students who promote the cultural pride and advancement of the Chicano/Latino community. Recipients are selected on the basis of family background, life challenges, scholastic effort, involvement in the Chicano/Latino community and financial need.
Read MoreUniversity of Utah biologists twirled louse-infested bird feathers on an electric fan and flew pigeons and doves like kites on strings in a study that found small lice stick to small birds and big lice prefer big birds.
Read MoreThe results of a clinical trial sponsored by the National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, may help ophthalmologists better treat premature infants suffering from a blinding eye disease known as retinopathy of prematurity (ROP). The disorder primarily affects premature infants who are born before 31 weeks of gestation and weigh less than 2.75 pounds.
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