Ever since Enron, it seems more academics have been trying to understand and rectify unethical behavior. Research in a forthcoming paper might help organizations better understand thinking patterns in the workplace.
Read MoreNPR’s Car Talk guys, Tom and Ray Magliozzi, may be a couple of motor mouths, but they always put a lid on using cell phones behind the wheel. The perennial jokesters confirm their serious commitment to addressing the issue of devices that take a driver’s focus off the road by teaming with the University of Utah to launch the Driver Distraction Center at their web site: cartalk.com/distraction.
Read MoreMarch 23, 2010-“What I’ve experienced is that I can’t know the future. I can’t know if anything that I do will change what happens tomorrow. I can’t know with certainty, but what I do know is if I do nothing, nothing will change,” writes Dr. James Orbinski, former president of the humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders).
Read MoreUtah’s red rocks – world-famous attractions at numerous national parks, monuments and state parks – have yielded a rare skeleton of a new species of plant-eating dinosaur that lived 185 million years ago and may have been buried alive by a collapsing sand dune. The discovery confirms the widespread success of sauropodomorph dinosaurs during the Early Jurassic Period.
Read MoreThree nationally acclaimed Black authors – G. Winston James, Martha Southgate and Mat Johnson–will be presented by the University of Utah in a series of lectures and readings titled, “Writers Like Us: Contemporary African American Writers.” The series will run March 29 through April 12. All events are free and open to the public.
Read MoreA new study from University of Utah psychologists found a small group of people with an extraordinary ability to multitask: Unlike 97.5 percent of those studied, they can safely drive while chatting on a cell phone.
Read More“Why does the other lane always seem to be moving faster?” asks author Tom Vanderbilt in his recent New York Times bestseller “Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us).”
Read MoreA newly announced program at the University of Utah guarantees that well-qualified students entering the U as freshmen will be admitted to one of the University’s elite graduate programs upon completion of their undergraduate degree. U President Michael K. Young says the new program will begin this fall, and will be administered by the University’s Honors College under the direction of Dean Martha Bradley.
Read MoreOn Friday, April 9, 2010, the University of Utah College of Social Work will present the 9th annual Pete Suazo Social Justice Awards, beginning at 3:00 pm in the Community Meeting Room of the Goodwill Humanitarian Building, 395 South 1500 East, Salt Lake City. The awards were created to honor the life of the late Senator Suazo by recognizing the work of those who fully dedicate themselves to the goal of social and economic justice. This year, the prestigious awards will be presented to four individuals and two organizations: Dhiraj Chand, People’s Market, Cathy Martinez, Disability Law Center, Melissa Bird, and May Romo.
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Lecturer: Ronald Walsworth, senior physicist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Date: Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Place: Aline Wilmot Skaggs Biology Building Auditorium, University of Utah
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