March 2012 – Page 2 – UNews Archive

New Study Reveals One Size Does Not Fit All When Evaluating Entrepreneurial Potential Country-by-Country

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Understanding the interplay of cultures, private and public institutions and local economic conditions is critical to incubating the entrepreneurial spirit in developing countries. That’s the conclusion of a new study “Exploring Country-level Institutional Arrangements on the Rate and Type of Entrepreneurial Activity” by Dr. Robert Wuebker, a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Utah’s David Eccles School of Business.

March 20, 2012

Utah Graduate Programs Pepper Top of U.S. News Rankings

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Graduate programs at the University of Utah are getting some impressive exposure in this year’s edition of “America’s Best Graduate Schools” published by U.S. News & World Report. The 2013 edition will go on sale April 3.

March 14, 2012

Keith Sterling, Experienced Media and Public Relations Professional, Joins U of U Communications Team

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Keith Sterling is the new communications director for the University of Utah. Reporting directly to the chief marketing and communications officer, Bill Warren, who joined the U last year, Sterling will work to develop a strategic media relations plan to help elevate the profile of the U while also serving as the university’s primary media spokesperson.

March 14, 2012

Robots Will Rumble

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Robots designed and built by high school students will shoot baskets this Thursday through Saturday at Utah’s Maverik Center during a competition expected to draw more than 1,100 teenagers from Utah and eight other states.

March 13, 2012

U of U Trustees Announce 2012 Honorary Degree Recipients

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The University of Utah Board of Trustees today announced that five individuals have been chosen to receive the university’s highest honor—the honorary doctorate degree. The awards will be presented at the annual commencement ceremonies held on Friday, May 4, 2012, in the Jon M. Huntsman Center.

March 13, 2012

Salt Lake Community College President to Talk Empowerment in Women’s Week Keynote Address

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Salt Lake Community College (SLCC) President Cynthia Bioteau will offer the keynote address at the 2012 University of Utah Women’s Week celebration. This year’s theme, “Powerful Beyond Measure: Women, Work, and Education” will honor the achievements women have made professionally and the importance of education in those achievements. Bioteau will speak on Wednesday, March 21 at noon in the Olpin Student Union Ballroom. All Women’s Week events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.

March 12, 2012

New U President Takes Office

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Utah’s flagship university officially welcomes a new President this Monday, March 12, 2012. David W. Pershing, distinguished professor of chemical engineering, was selected by the State Board of Regents as the 15th President of the University of Utah and succeeds Michael K. Young. Dr. Lorris Betz, who retired in 2010 as senior vice president for health sciences and CEO of University of Utah Health Care, has served as interim president since Young’s departure last May.

March 9, 2012

A New Direction for Game Controllers

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University of Utah engineers designed a new kind of video game controller that not only vibrates like existing devices, but pulls and stretches the thumb tips in different directions to simulate the tug of a fishing line, the recoil of a gun or the feeling of ocean waves.

March 5, 2012

U of U Entertainment Arts and Engineering Program Ranked Among Nation’s Best

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Every student that graduates in the University of Utah’s Entertainment Arts and Engineering Program (EAE) does so with a published video game to their credit. That is just one of the criteria that helped put the U near the top of the Princeton Review’s ranking, only behind USC and MIT.

March 2, 2012