The University of Utah broke ground today on its cutting-edge College of Law building, which will facilitate new approaches to legal education based on more hands-on learning and skills training.
Read MoreAs the University of Utah’s S.J. Quinney College of Law prepares to break ground on its new, home this June, the Alternative Visions Fund of the Chicago Community Trust announced a $4.5 million gift to the college.
Read MoreGeneral commencement ceremonies at the University of Utah will be held on Thursday, May 2 at 6:30 p.m. in theJon M. Huntsman Center. Scheduling the event in the evening begins a new tradition intended to make the ceremonies more readily accessible to students and their families. Commencement is free and open to the public; no tickets are required.
Read MoreMuch has changed in the nearly half century since UCLA historian Lynn White named the Judeo-Christian tradition one of the “root” causes of “our ecological crisis.” Across the world today, people of faith are stepping forward to explain why our spiritual connections to the Earth demand environmental protection. At the same time, religion remains intertwined with some of the most vexing environmental problems.
Read MoreUnmanned drones, cruise missiles, automated weapons, even armed robot warriors on the battlefield— in a time of troop cutbacks, emerging technologies make it possible to conduct “clinical strikes” through “remote warfare.” But are these tactics of waging war from a safe distance legal and ethical?
Read MoreThe S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah will soon begin a search for a new dean, after Claremont McKenna College in Southern California named Dean Hiram E. Chodosh its next president.
Read MoreIf you were looking to recent political campaigns for meaningful discussions about the serious issues confronting the country, you likely came away disappointed. The University of Utah is hosting a conference—free and open to the public—to stimulate the vital deliberations that did not happen.
Read MoreKathleen Sebelius, secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, has named University of Utah medical ethicist and physician Jeffrey Botkin as chair of the Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Human Research Protections.
Read MoreThe September issue of the National Jurist, a leading news source in legal education, names the University of Utah’s S.J. Quinney College of Law among the top 20 law schools for both “best value” and “most innovative.”
Read MoreA University of Utah survey of judges in 19 states found that if a convicted criminal is a psychopath, judges consider it an aggravating factor in sentencing, but if judges also hear biological explanations for the disorder, they reduce the sentence by about a year on average.
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