Critical race scholars in education will convene May 12 – 15, 2010 at the University of Utah to confront the notion that we are living in a post-racial era. “Deconstructing Contemporary Post-racial Discourses” is the theme for the fourth annual Critical Race Studies in Education Association conference.
Read MoreThe University of Utah will host its 13th annual Veterans Day commemoration program on Thursday, November 11, 2010 to honor those who have served our country in the military. Again this year, the U is inviting nominations for veterans who live in Utah.
Read MoreShort Solutions, a University of Utah startup company consisting of four current and former engineering students, won the Palo Alto Software Challenge Award at the 2010 Global Moot Corp Competition – the “Super Bowl of business plan competitions” -at The University of Texas in Austin. Only 40 teams from 12 countries qualified to participate. Short Solution’s win earned the team $1,500, which brings their total earnings from grants and competitions to $86,500.
Read MoreEver since she can remember, Judy Vu has dreamed of becoming a doctor. Her parents, Vietnamese immigrants who met in the U.S., have done everything they can to support her goal. When she was a child, her father brought home documentaries of Operation Smile and Judy watched them all, hoping to someday travel to other countries and help those in need.
Read MoreThe University of Utah invites future innovators, scientists and engineers to register for the FIRST LEGO League (FLL), an event to be held January 29, 2011 at the U.
Read MoreIt may have taken a major oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico to direct the general public’s attention to automobile use and how it affects everything from the environment to obesity.
Read MoreA Nobel Prize-winning University of Utah geneticist discovered that bone marrow transplants cure mutant mice who pull out their hair compulsively. The study provides the first cause-and-effect link between immune system cells and mental illness, and points toward eventual new psychiatric treatments.
Read MoreArdipithecus ramidus – a purported human ancestor that was dubbed Science magazine’s 2009 “Breakthrough of the Year” – is coming under fire from scientists who say there is scant evidence for her discoverers’ claims that there were dense woodlands at the African site where the creature lived 4.4 million years ago.
Read MoreA new species of horned dinosaur unearthed in Mexico has larger horns that any other species – up to 4 feet long – and has given scientists fresh insights into the ancient history of western North America, according to a research team led by paleontologists from the Utah Museum of Natural History at the University of Utah.
Read MoreIn a surprising discovery that someday may lead to new treatments for many inflammatory diseases, University of Utah scientists found that a hormone involved in iron metabolism can save mice from deadly acute inflammation.
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