For three years, University of Utah researchers have been deploying a computer-based design program called SketchUp in workshops to teach and develop life skills for youth on the autism spectrum. An earlier study showed that using the program helps kids develop their spatial and visual acuity, as well as to leverage those strengths to build positive social interactions.
Read MoreThe S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah will soon begin a search for a new dean, after Claremont McKenna College in Southern California named Dean Hiram E. Chodosh its next president.
Read MoreA new study from the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah reveals that, in spite of its shortcomings, the controversial Troubled Asset Relief Program (aka TARP) has been effective despite initial concerns about its restrictions on executive pay.
Read MoreWith Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day around the corner, the exhibition “Honoring Our Veterans” at The University of Utah’s J. Willard Marriott Library is right on target. The exhibition includes more than 100 vignettes of Utah veterans who have been honored by the University of Utah since 1998. One such veteran, Emmett Davis, was at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.
Read MoreAstronomers at the University of Utah and elsewhere are seeking volunteers to explore the galaxy next door, Andromeda. The newly launched Andromeda Project will use people power to examine thousands of Hubble Space Telescope images of the galaxy to identify star clusters that hold clues to the evolution of galaxies.
Read MoreThe U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded two University of Utah engineering teams with grants for sustainability research: chemical engineers will optimize cookstove design in rural Nepal, while civil engineers will design treatments for polluted water from olive oil mills in the West Bank.
Read MoreTwo University of Utah faculty members have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest scientific society and publisher of the journal Science. They are Lynn Jorde, professor and chair of human genetics, and Janis Louie, an associate professor of chemistry.
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