For the first time in nine years, NASA and other federal agencies will use aircraft and satellites this summer to mount an intensive, U.S.-based study of how hurricanes are born and rapidly intensify, and a University of Utah meteorologist is one of three project scientists leading the study.
Read MoreUniversity of Utah Health Care has been ranked among the nation’s top health care providers in U.S. News & World Report for 2010-11. The 21st annual survey of America’s Best Hospitals marks University of Utah Health Care’s 17th appearance in the report of the finest health care systems in the U.S., which is set to hit newsstands on July 27.
Read MoreTo many big companies, you aren’t just a customer, but are described by multiple “dimensions” of information within a computer database. Now, a University of Utah computer scientist has devised a new method for simpler, faster “data mining,” or extracting and analyzing massive amounts of such data.
Read MoreOfficials from University of Utah Health Care and Rio Tinto’s Kennecott Land broke ground today on a 208,000 square foot facility that will provide residents of southern Salt Lake County with convenient access to the University’s primary, specialty and emergency health care services. The new building will include outpatient exam rooms, an outpatient surgery center, medical imaging services, a pharmacy, space for community education, a restaurant, and a fully-staffed 24-hour-a-day emergency room. The center will also feature specialty services provided by the University’s Huntsman Cancer Hospital, Moran Eye Center, Orthopaedic Center, and Neuropsychiatric Institute.
Read MoreThe University of Utah has been honored by the 2010 Society for College and University Planning (SCUP). The society awarded the Excellence in Planning Merit Award for Planning for a District or Campus Component to the U of U for its 2008 Campus Master Plan.
Read MoreGretchen Dietrich, an innovative museum professional and a skilled administrator, has been selected as the Executive Director of the Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA), effective August 1, 2010, pending notification of the Academic Senate and approval of the Board of Trustees.
Read MoreResearch and related funding collected by the University of Utah during the recently ended fiscal year 2010 jumped 27 percent to $450.6 million, with most of the increase provided by economic stimulus money from the federal government.
Read MoreThe University of Utah College of Humanities has been selected to receive a prestigious Department of Education Title VI National Resource Center (NRC) Consortium grant for its Asia Center.
Read MoreWielding two claws, a motor and a tail that swings like a grandfather clock’s pendulum, a small robot named ROCR (“rocker”) scrambles up a carpeted, 8-foot wall in just over 15 seconds – the first such robot designed to climb efficiently and move like human rock climbers or apes swinging through trees.
Read MoreThe U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced that the University of Utah is ranked fourth in the nation on its list of college and university “green power partners.” That’s a jump of six spots in just one year.
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