Venus will pass directly between the Earth and the sun on Tuesday, June 5, and the planet’s rare transit across the face of the sun will present a once-in-a-lifetime viewing opportunity for people in northwestern North America, Hawaii, the western Pacific and northern Asia. The last transit of Venus was in 2004, but the next won’t happen until 2117.
Read MoreHow many college graduate thesis projects and term papers become available commercially? It would be safe to say few, if any. This might apply to video game projects created by students as well.
Read MoreMiriah Meyer, a computer scientist at the University of Utah, has been selected as one of seven Microsoft Research Faculty Fellows for 2012.
Read MoreThe University of Utah is calling it “speed teching” (pronounced teck-ing) – and it’s a lot like speed dating.
Read MoreThe University of Utah has once more extended its educational reach beyond the 1,500 acre campus in the state’s capital city.
Read MoreThe Tanner Humanities Center at the University of Utah is proud to announce the awarding of the 2012-2013 Fellowship in Mormon Studies to Rosemary Avance, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Pennsylvania.
Read MoreMore than 60 U.S. colleges and universities have created centers to promote science and math education, but there has been no organization to unite them. So on May 20-22, the University of Utah will take a leadership role by hosting the First National Conference for Centers of Science and Mathematics Education.
Read MoreIf the world’s nations ever sign a treaty to limit emissions of climate-warming carbon dioxide gas, there may be a way to help verify compliance: a new method developed by scientists from the University of Utah and Harvard.
Read MoreThe University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law announced that it has received a $4 million gift from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints toward construction of its new 155,000 gross square-foot facility that will support the law school’s cutting-edge service- and simulated learning pedagogies and collaborative research programs. Groundbreaking on the building is expected to begin in 2013, the College’s centennial year.
Read MoreThe Department of Parks, Recreation, & Tourism at the University of Utah will examine the links between healthy people and a healthy environment in a symposium designed to improve thinking, research and practical applications related to these topics.
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