In the heart of the western United States resides a diverse collection of election and political commentators. Experts from the University of Utah are available to national and local media on wide-ranging topics involving races in the state, the West and across the country before and following the pivotal midterm elections on November 2, 2010.
Read MoreThe School of Music at the University of Utah has announced the appointment of Barlow Bradford as visiting professor of choral studies. One of Utah’s most prominent and successful conductors, he will assume his duties on November 1.
Read MoreUniversity of Utah computer scientists developed software that quickly edits “extreme resolution imagery” – huge photographs containing billions to hundreds of billions of pixels or dot-like picture elements. Until now, it took hours to process these “gigapixel” images. The new software needs only seconds to produce preview images useful to doctors, intelligence analysts, photographers, artists, engineers and others.
Read MoreThe University of Utah’s Pacific Islander Student Association (PISA) will be hosting its annual High School Conference at the University of Utah Olpin Student Union on Tuesday, November 9, 2010 from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm. Approximately five-hundred Pacific Islander high school students from Granite, Salt Lake City, Canyons, Davis, and Jordan school district will attend.
Read MoreThe man who has been called “the godfather of political reform in California,” Robert M. Stern, will deliver the keynote address for the 2010 Rocco C. and Marion S. Siciliano Forum at noon on Thursday, Nov. 4 in the Katherine W. and Ezekiel R. Dumke Jr. Auditorium in the Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA).
Read MoreFifty years ago the Middle East Center at the University of Utah was founded to to enhance awareness of the Middle East, its diverse peoples and cultures. The center promotes both specialized knowledge and public understanding of this crucial area of the world, which includes the Arab states, Turkey, Iran and Israel.
Read MoreThe University of Utah College of Social Work announced today that it has received a $17,500 Daniels Fund grant to support its Neighbors Helping Neighbors program.
Read MoreJust seven months after University of Utah geneticists took part in a landmark study that sequenced for the first time the genome of an entire Utah family, U of U researchers have taken part in another historic study that is the first large-scale genome sequencing project–179 people representing three continents–and 60 Utahns played a major role in this study, too.
Read MoreEfforts to make the University of Utah more environmentally sustainable received an above-average grade from the Sustainable Endowments Institute (SEI), an independent nonprofit organization that researches and promotes sustainability efforts on U.S. college campuses. In its 2011 report card just released, the institute gave the U a B+ for its many green programs and future planning. That’s an improvement from the 2010 report card, in which the U received a B grade.
Read MoreUnarmed, Donald Ward Petersen and the rest of his B-24 crew were given the command to abandon their aircraft, which had been shot by Germans over Innsbruck, Austria. When Petersen landed in the mountains above a small village, a villager found him and led him at gunpoint into the hands of the German Gestapo. The Gestapo took him to Innsbruck and to Luft Stalag IV in what is today Poland, where he was held as a POW for the remaining 11 months of World War II. He became part of the forced march across Poland and Germany that lasted three months in freezing conditions.
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