University of Utah physicists developed an inexpensive, highly accurate magnetic field sensor for scientific and possibly consumer uses based on a “spintronic” organic thin-film semiconductor that basically is “plastic paint.”
Read MoreThe Geological Society of America has given its George P. Woollard Award for outstanding contributions to geophysics to University of Utah geophysicist Robert B. Smith, a world expert on earthquakes and volcanism in the Yellowstone National Park region.
Read MoreA University of Utah study found that when a virgin male moth gets a whiff of female sex attractant, he’s quicker to start shivering to warm up his flight muscles, and then takes off prematurely when he’s still too cool for powerful flight. So his headlong rush to reach the female first may cost him the race.
Read MoreThis summer, the University of Utah’s highly ranked Entertainment Arts and Engineering program is not just for U students.
Read MoreGreg Thompson, associate dean for special collections at the J. Willard Marriott Library at the University of Utah, will receive the Snowsports Builder Award for 2012 from the Far West Ski Association. The awards event will be held at the Ogden Eccles Conference Center on Saturday, June 9, 2012.
Read MoreBiology Professor Nalini Nadkarni, director of the University of Utah’s Center for Science and Mathematics Education, has been honored by an Italian foundation for her work in tree conservation. Every two years, the Bardini and Peyron Monumental Parks Foundation gives awards to several individuals who distinguish themselves for “safeguarding of the Earth’s environmental balance and […]
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