Categories

UMC Links

Math Can Save Tylenol Overdose Patients

University of Utah mathematicians developed a set of calculus equations to make it easier for doctors to save Tylenol overdose patients by quickly estimating how much painkiller they took, when they consumed it and whether they will require a liver transplant to survive.

Read More

Building Future Scientists: Partnerships, Planets and Parties!

What: Community Kick-off and Star Party Where: Salt Lake Center for Science Education 1400 W. Goodwin Ave. When: Tuesday, February 28, 2012   February 23, 2012—How do we build the next generation of scientists? That’s a question the Honors College at the University of Utah hopes to answer as it launches an innovative program with […]

Read More

Climate Change Threatens Tropical Birds

Climate change spells trouble for many tropical birds – especially those living in mountains, coastal forests and relatively small areas – and the damage will be compounded by other threats like habitat loss, disease and competition among species.

Read More

When Economics Goes Global, Who Benefits, Suffers?

Recent decades have been marked by a continual process of globalization—greatly increasing economic and political connections between nations. Living standards in both poor and rich countries are changing, as well as political power and institutions within nations. Other changes around the globe—including climate change, population pressures and food price shocks—are challenging capacity to deal with complex and intertwined issues.

Read More

Our Amorphophallus is Smaller

The famed “corpse flower” plant – known for its giant size, rotten-meat odor and phallic shape – has a new, smaller relative: A University of Utah botanist discovered a new species of Amorphophallus that is one-fourth as tall but just as stinky.

Read More