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Robots, and Rockets, and Racecars! Oh, My!

A buoy to harvest energy from ocean waves, a device to help restore hand function in patients with deteriorated muscles, racing vehicles and a rocket that one day may be launched into space are among senior design projects that will be showcased Tuesday, April 19, during the University of Utah’s 14th annual Mechanical Engineering Design Day.

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Electric Yellowstone

University of Utah geophysicists made the first large-scale picture of the electrical conductivity of the gigantic underground plume of hot and partly molten rock that feeds the Yellowstone supervolcano. The image suggests the plume is even bigger than it appears in earlier images made with earthquake waves.

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Climate Change: Evidence and Options

Glaciers serve as early indicators of climate change. During the last 35 years, Thompson’s research team has recovered ice-core records of climatic and environmental variations from polar regions and low-latitude, high-elevation ice fields from 16 nations.

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DAYS OF REMEMBRANCE

On June 22, 1941, Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in what has been called a “war of annihilation” in Hitler’s quest for world domination and Jewish extermination. The University of Utah’s 2011 Days of Remembrance week will commemorate the Holocaust of World War II with an examination of this tragic invasion, in which hundreds of thousands of lives were lost. The theme is “70 Years Later: Remembering the Nazi Invasion of the Soviet Union.” Millions of victims, including over 6 million Jews, were murdered by the Nazi regime during the Holocaust.

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When African Animals Hit the Hay

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Fossil teeth of African animals show that during the past 10 million years, different plant-eating critters began grazing on grass at different times as many switched from a salad-bar diet of tree leaves and shrubs, says a University of Utah study.

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Utah’s Everyday Advocates to be Recognized

On Friday, April 8, the University of Utah College of Social Work will celebrate the 10th year of the Pete Suazo Social Justice Awards by honoring seven community advocates for social and economic justice: Wazir Jefferson, the University of Utah Women’s Resource Center, Bertie Kee Lopez, the Radio From Hell show, Debbie Rocha, Mark Alvarez, and Bonnie Peters. The awards were created to honor the life of the late Senator Suazo by recognizing the work of those who continue Sen. Suazo’s legacy by dedicating themselves to the goal of social and economic justice. The awards ceremony and reception will begin at 4 p.m. in the Community Meeting Room of the Goodwill Humanitarian Building, 395 South 1500 East, Salt Lake City.

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