Citing world-class designing experience and a shared vision of achieving mission and involving the community, the Utah Museum of Natural History at the University of Utah announced yesterday at a press conference that Polshek Partnerships Architects and Gillies Stransky Brems Smith (GSBS) will design the new museum and Ralph Applebaum Associates as the exhibit designer.
Read MoreOne hundred years after Albert Einstein’s major discoveries, physicists and the United Nations are observing 2005 as the World Year of Physics. The University of Utah will celebrate with lectures, exhibits, tours, a film festival, observatory star parties and an Einstein look-alike contest.
Read MoreOn Thursday, Utah lawmakers will be able to see firsthand the importance of undergraduate research coming out of the University of Utah and Utah State University, the state’s two public research institutions.
Read MoreUniversity of Utah researchers have won about $6.7 million in federal grants to develop wireless electrodes that would be implanted to provide blind people with artificial vision and stimulate paralyzed body parts and so disabled people could walk, talk or control a computer with their thoughts.
Read MoreThe University of Utah’s Department of Mechanical Engineering will host its third annual Undergraduate Research Day on Thursday Dec. 9. The event features displays of student research projects, and competitions in which devices are built to hurl eggs and stuffed cougars – the mascot of rival Brigham Young University.
Read MoreThe Society of Women Engineers (SWE) today announced Dr. JoAnn S. Lighty, professor of Chemical Engineering and former associate dean for academic affairs in the College of Engineering at the University of Utah, recipient of the 2004 SWE Distinguished Engineering Educator Award. In issuing the honor, the society cited Lighty’s dedication to SWE’s goals and mission and her willingness to serve on many committees that address issues of women in engineering.
Read MoreGroundbreaking ceremonies for the University of Utah’s new John E. and Marva M. Warnock Engineering Building will be held at 10:30 a.m. Friday Oct. 15 at the construction site southeast of the Merrill Engineering Building on Central Campus Drive.
Read MoreAfter 12 months and 1,000 hours of strenuous and tedious excavation work performed by 40 staff and volunteers of the University of Utah’s Utah Museum of Natural History and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, a 75-million-year-old dinosaur skeleton will be transported from its resting place in The Blues area of southern Utah’s Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument (GSENM).
Read MoreThe University of Utah ranks 111th out the more than 1,400 colleges and universities surveyed for the 2005 edition of the “America’s Best Colleges” guidebook from U.S. News & World Report. The magazine ranks schools annually based on a complicated system of peer assessments and statistical data. The U moved up seven spots, maintaining its status as a top tier institution.
Read MoreIssues affecting the Colorado River, the major river of the American Southwest, will be discussed Thurs. Aug. 26 at the University of Utah’s Heritage Center.
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