Record crowds are expected this year, when the puck drops at Skatin’ Utes home hockey games. There are several reasons club organizers, coaches and players are expecting to increase their fan base for the 2002-2003 season. First, new players are providing a boost to an already good team.
Read MoreIn a study that may improve animal breeding and reveal more about how animals detect odors, Utah and Oregon scientists learned how proteins help a female sex attractant stimulate male elephants so they mate, and how one protein may end their arousal.
Read MoreWillem J. Kolff, M.D., Ph.D., University of Utah School of Medicine distinguished professor emeritus of internal medicine, surgery and bioengineering, has been awarded a 2002 Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research. Kolff invented the hemodialysis machine during World War II, which prolonged the useful lives of millions of people with kidney disease.
Read MoreThe University of Utah’s employee giving program (formerly known as “Family Fund”) kicks off this month with new chairs, a new department representative program and a new name: Partners In Excellence.
Read MoreThis week and next the University of Utah will present a variety of campus activities and diverse, local radio and television programming to memorialize the victims and the events of last Sept. 11th and to reflect on the freedoms America enjoys.
Read MoreUtahns can find information about poison control a mouse click away at the Utah Poison Control Center’s (UPCC) new Web site: www.uuhsc.utah.edu/poison.
Read MoreThis week 23-year-old Lupe Figueroa, a senior in Spanish and Human Communications at California State University Monterey Bay (CSUMB), will finish up eight weeks of graduate school-level research at the University of Utah. She is one of 23 students completing this year’s Summer Research Opportunity Program (SROP), sponsored campus-wide by the U’s Graduate School.
Read MorePelvic floor disorders (PFDs), including pelvic organ prolapse and urinary incontinence, are common problems for women of all ages. But, little is known about the causes of these diseases.
Read MorePediatric cardiologists at the University of Utah School of Medicine and Primary Children’s Medical Center (PCMC) will conduct a clinical trial of a blood pressure monitor that may provide an alternative to invasive cardiac catheterization.
Read MoreResearchers led by a University of Utah physician have discovered a key clue in what causes one of the most common congenital heart problems-defective valves.
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