Helping a large-scale education facility produce as much energy as it consumes is no small undertaking; yet the University of Utah’s College of Architecture + Planning is preparing to do just that.
Read MoreNational Public Radio (NPR) Host Krista Tipett will deliver this year’s McMurrin lecture on religion and culture. The event will take place Tuesday, Nov. 10 at 7 p.m. in the Salt Lake Main Library’s Nancy Tessman Auditorium, 210 E. 400 South and is free and open to the public.
Read MoreThe University of Utah will celebrate the initial observations or “first light” of its new $860,000 research telescope in southwest Utah during a Wednesday, Nov. 11 symposium and reception on the Salt Lake City campus.
Read MoreAuthor Patricia J. Williams, professor of law at Columbia University and renowned expert on issues of social justice, will describe the paradox of racial inequities at this year’s William H. Leary Lecture. On Thursday, Nov. 12 at 6:00 p.m., the lecture titled, “The Paradox of Race: Reflections on the Not-So-Level Playing Field” will be held at the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law, 332 S. 1400 E. in the college’s Sutherland Moot Courtroom. It will be preceded by a reception at 5:30 p.m. Both events are free and open to the public.
Read MoreUniversity of Utah chemists demonstrated the first conclusive link between the size of catalyst particles on a solid surface, their electronic properties and their ability to speed chemical reactions. The study is a step toward the goal of designing cheaper, more efficient catalysts to increase energy production, reduce Earth-warming gases and manufacture a wide variety of goods from medicines to gasoline.
Read MoreDue to the downturn in the economy, the Utah Food Bank has seen an increasing number of food requests as more individuals and families have fallen on hard financial times. With that in mind, this year’s Utah-BYU Rivalry Week Food Drive is a contest nobody can afford to lose.
Read MoreLectures on climate change past and present and on urban sustainability will be featured as the University of Utah’s Department of Geography celebrates Geography Awareness Week during the week of Nov. 16.
Read MoreThe David Eccles School of Business (DESB) Professional MBA program has been named one of the nation’s best by “BusinessWeek” magazine. The DESB Professional MBA ranks 50 in the nation overall, making the program the only “BusinessWeek” ranked part-time MBA program in Utah.
Read MoreThe University of Utah Alumni Association will celebrate Founders Day, which commemorates the founding of the University of Utah in 1850, at a banquet on Wednesday, February 24, at the Little America Hotel in downtown Salt Lake City. Honoring individuals who have distinguished themselves professionally and personally, the event will acknowledge alumni Larry D. Gluth, M. Elizabeth Hale Hammond, Fred Lampropoulos, and Robert Alan McDonald for their outstanding achievements. Also recognized as an Honorary Alumna will be Marta Sutton Weeks-Wulf.
Read MoreSmall amounts of oil leave a fluorescent sheen on polluted water. Oil sheen is hard to remove, even when the water is aerated with ozone or filtered through sand. Now, a University of Utah engineer has developed an inexpensive new method to remove oil sheen by repeatedly pressurizing and depressurizing ozone gas, creating microscopic bubbles that attack the oil so it can be removed by sand filters.
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