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Rosie Joe House to Receive AIA Award this Weekend

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A home University of Utah architecture graduate students built for Rosie Joe and her family in Bluff, Utah, a small town located in the San Juan River Valley, is receiving yet another award. On Saturday, Hank Louis, University College of Architecture + Planning (CA+P) adjunct professor, will accept an award from The American Institute of Architects (AIA) Western Mountain Region (WMR) at an awards banquet at the Arizona Biltmore Resort.

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March 25, 2011

“Love in Later Life” Just One of the Many Courses Offered through U’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute

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This fall, mature learners at the University of Utah will study whether Robert Browning’s words “Grow old with me! The best is yet to be,” are really true. The “Love in Later Life” students will explore falling in love, beliefs about romantic love, normal age-related changes and the love experience, mature love and desire, marriage in later life, love in poetry and literature, betrayal, Internet dating and the emotional, cognitive and sexual aspects of romance. The course, taught by Amanda Barusch, a U professor of social work and a researcher on aging, is not a how-to class, Barusch notes, but one that will explore the personal relevance of current research and theory relating to love in later life.

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March 25, 2011

Explore Your Dark Side with Caves Exhibit at Utah Museum of Natural History

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The public will be able to explore the hidden secrets of caves from May 28 to October 2, 2005 at the Utah Museum of Natural History at the University of Utah. The new display is actually two exhibits entitled The Dark Zone: Discovering Utah’s Caves and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History’s traveling exhibition of Caves: a Fragile Wilderness.

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March 25, 2011

Helping Inventors Go Commercial

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The seventh annual Edison Conference and Innovation Showcase will be held Wednesday May 18 and Thursday May 19 at the University of Utah, with the goal of helping inventors and researchers successfully commercialize their technologies.

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March 25, 2011

Killer Dinosaurs Turned Vegetarian

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Scientists have discovered a mass graveyard of bird-like feathered dinosaurs in Utah. The previously unknown species provides clues about how vicious meat-eaters related to Velociraptor ultimately evolved into plant-munching vegetarians.

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March 25, 2011

More than 7,000 Set to Graduate from U of U on May 6

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Commencement ceremonies at the University of Utah will be held on Friday, May 6, at 9 a.m., in the Jon M. Huntsman Center. The class of 2005, comprised of 7,414 graduates, will receive their degrees that morning. The procession of diverse students, who come from 68 countries, 50 U.S. states and 26 of Utah’s 29 counties, will begin at 8:20 a.m. Guests should plan to be in their seats prior to 8:30 a.m. Tickets are not required

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March 25, 2011