University of Utah to Graduate 7,659 Students on May 4
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General commencement ceremonies at the University of Utah will be held on Friday, May 4, at 9 a.m. in the Jon M. Huntsman Center.
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LGBT Ally Week Kicks-off with Screening of Film “Bullied” about Activist Jamie Nabozny
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Jamie Nabozny will offer the keynote address at the University of Utah on Wednesday, April 18 at 12:00 p.m. in the Saltair Room of the Olpin Student Union building and the speech will open with a screening of “Bullied,” a documentary produced by the Southern Poverty Law Center which chronicles Nabozny’s story. The Ally Awareness Week celebration runs April 16 through 20, 2012.
Read MoreAdvocate for Fighting Back Against Bullies Speaks at S.J. Quinney College of Law
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He was attacked throughout his young life at school because he was gay, but Jamie Nabozny didn’t let the abuse ruin his life. He fought back. Nabozny will tell his story Monday, April 16, 12:15 p.m., at the S. J. Quinney College of Law’s Sutherland Moot Courtroom in an event sponsored by the Outlaws student group.
Read MoreUtah Law Students Stay a Step Ahead of Terrorists
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Law students at the University of Utah are faced with multiple terrorist threats almost simultaneously and asked to make quick decisions based on imperfect information. That’s part of what they’ll face during unique counter-terrorism training as part of Professor Amos Guiora’s course on Global Perspectives on Counter-terrorism.
Read MoreU Lecturer Asks: Can Mormonism Solve the Nation’s Problems?
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With two Mormon candidates vying for a shot at the highest office in the nation, the public discourse on how Mormons can affect the lives of others has never been more acute.
Read MoreForeign Policy Lecture on 9/11 Looks to the Past for Future Deterrent
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To coincide with the tenth anniversary of the Sept 11 attacks, Wayne McCormack, professor of law at the University of Utah SJ Quinney College of Law, will discuss US foreign policy in a lecture entitled, “9/11: a Decade Ago and a Decade to Be.”
Read MoreUtah Criminal Justice Center Names New Director
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The Board of the Utah Criminal Justice Center announced Monday that Rob Butters has been selected as the Center’s new director.
Read MoreDAYS OF REMEMBRANCE
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On June 22, 1941, Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in what has been called a “war of annihilation” in Hitler’s quest for world domination and Jewish extermination. The University of Utah’s 2011 Days of Remembrance week will commemorate the Holocaust of World War II with an examination of this tragic invasion, in which hundreds of thousands of lives were lost. The theme is “70 Years Later: Remembering the Nazi Invasion of the Soviet Union.” Millions of victims, including over 6 million Jews, were murdered by the Nazi regime during the Holocaust.
Read MoreU College of Law Students’ Judgment Tested on Terrorism Threats
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Students at the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law will put their legal education and training to the test in lifelike, high-intensity terror attack situations involving legal and ethical dilemmas. The counter-terrorism simulation will take place on Friday, April 1, from 12:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Mountain Daylight Time (6:00 p.m. GMT) at the U of U campus.
Read MoreInternationally Syndicated Columnist to Speak at U on Anti-Americanism in the Arab World
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The University of Utah’s Middle East Center announces the second lecture in the U’s lecture series on the Iraq Crisis. On Wednesday, Feb. 12, Rami G. Khouri, executive editor of The Daily Star in Beirut, Lebanon, will speak on “Anti-Americanism in the Arab World: Roots, Repercussions, and Remedies.” The event, which is free and open to the public, will be held from 2 until 3:30 p.m. in the Dumke Auditorium of the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, located next to the David Eccles School of Business.
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