Sandcastle worms live in intertidal surf, building sturdy tube-shaped homes from bits of sand and shell and their own natural glue. University of Utah bioengineers have made a synthetic version of this seaworthy superglue, and hope it will be used within several years to repair shattered bones in knees, other joints and the face.
Read MoreIn his new book, Historic Preservation Technology, Robert Young, University of Utah associate professor of architecture demonstrates that historic preservation and the rehabilitation of buildings is one of the most sophisticated means of materials recycling on the planet.
Read MoreMore than 2,500 minority scientists, science educators and students will gather October 9 through 12, 2008 in Salt Lake City, Utah, at the Salt Palace Convention Center for the 35th Annual National Conference of the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS). The theme for this year’s conference is “International Polar Year: Global Change in Our Communities.” The University of Utah is the platinum conference sponsor and this is the first time the conference will be held in Utah.
Read MoreDo you want to know the percentage of white women who support vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin? What about college-educated versus high school-educated white women? Or those who also hunt?
Read MoreLecturer: Jennifer A. Marshall Graves, geneticist,
Date: Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2008
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Place: Aline
Climate has been implicated by a new study as a major driver of wildfires in the last 2,000 years, but human activities, such as land clearance and fire suppression during the industrial era (since 1750) created large swings in burning, first increasing fires until the late 1800s, and then dramatically reducing burning in the 20th century.
Read MoreAlan Weisman, author of the provocative best seller, The World Without Us, will speak on campus at the University of Utah Tuesday, September 30, 2008 at 7:00 p.m.
Read MoreIn its latest step to develop an astronomy program, the University of Utah is joining a major international effort to map the heavens as a way to search for giant planets in other solar systems, study expansion of the universe and probe the mysterious dark matter and dark energy that make up most of the universe.
Read MoreThe latest issue of U.S. News & World Report/America’s Best Colleges ranks the University of Utah among the best national universities. The U came in 127th, tying with the University of San Francisco and the New Jersey Institute of Technology.
Read MoreA University of Utah study is shedding light on an important, unsolved physics problem: the relationship between chaos theory–which is based on 300-year-old Newtonian physics–and the modern theory of quantum mechanics.
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