University of Utah researchers created new iPhone programs – known as applications or “apps” – to help scientists, students, doctors and patients study the human body, evaluate medical problems and analyze other three-dimensional images.
Read MoreVenkatraman “Venki” Ramakrishnan – one of three winners of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry – worked at the University of Utah during 1995-1999, and on Wednesday acknowledged the U’s role in his award during media interviews and in e-mails to former colleagues in Utah.
Read MoreThree University of Utah Department of Psychiatry researchers are part of an international team of scientists that has identified a novel region of the human genome that may confer susceptibility to autism.
Read MoreSuccessful research on dozens of projects is taking place at institutions across the state, and results will be presented at the fifth nanoUtah Conference October 15 and 16, 2009 in Salt Lake City.
Read MoreLecturer: Robin M. Bush, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, University of California, Irvine
Date:Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Place: Aline Wilmot Skaggs Biology Building Auditorium, University of Utah
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Read MoreUniversity of Utah engineers showed that a wireless network of radio transmitters can track people moving behind solid walls. The system could help police, firefighters and others nab intruders, and rescue hostages, fire victims and elderly people who fall in their homes. It also might help retail marketing and border control.
Read MoreProfessor K. “Vish” Viswanath, a renowned health communication researcher and theorist, will present the Communication Department’s 23rd annual B. Aubrey Fisher Memorial Lecture, titled “Health at the Margins: Poverty, Communication and Health,” on Thursday, Oct. 22 at 7:30 p.m. in Room 1110 of the Language and Communication Building (LNCO). The event is free and open to the public.
Read MoreMrs. Laura W. Bush, who taught school and served as a public school librarian in Texas during her professional career, will deliver the keynote address at the rededication of the J. Willard Marriott Library on the campus of the University of Utah. The public events will be held Monday, October 26, beginning at 10:30 a.m.
Read MoreThe root cause behind terrorism in the 21st Century and how to curtail it could involve putting restrictions on freedom of religion. The University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law will host a symposium on October 23 from 8:30 to 11:00 a.m. focused on religious rights, counter-terrorism and national security. The half-day event is based on Professor Amos N. Guiora’s new book “Freedom from Religion: Rights and National Security.”
Read MoreAre societies getting healthier as they get older? How can countries benefit from an older workforce? How do multiple familial generations co-exist, and what is the balance among family, market and public supports for older people? These questions will be addressed at the thirteenth annual Rocco C. and Marion S. Siciliano Forum.
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