The University of Utah College of Fine Arts is elated to announce that Assistant Professor Lauren Gallaspy has been honored with a Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Grant. The Grant, established in 1993, works to acknowledge exceptional painters and sculptors and provides the artists with an unrestricted financial award.
Read MoreUniversity of Utah engineers demonstrated it is feasible to build the first organic materials that conduct electricity on their edges, but act as an insulator inside. These materials – called organic topological insulators – could shuttle information at the speed of light in quantum computers and other high-speed electronic devices.
Read MoreBest-selling author and Harvard Professor Michael Sandel will give the 2013 Tanner Lecture on Human Values, sponsored by the University of Utah Tanner Humanities Center. Sandel’s lecture, titled “Casino Capitalism: Gambling, Investing and the Ethics of Speculation,” will be held on Wednesday, Feb. 27 at 7:00 p.m. in Kingsbury Hall, 1395 E. Presidents Circle.
Read MoreAfter the events of 9/11, the predominant public discourse has focused on the relationship between religion, conflict and violence. To bring a positive and less publicized element to the discussion, the Tanner Center for Nonviolent Human Rights Advocacy at the University of Utah has dedicated its 2013 conference to the role of religion in building peace.
Read MoreDarby Fanning, education services librarian at the Marriott Library, has been awarded the U’s “John R. Park Teaching Fellowship”, which will allow her to travel and study at Australian academic libraries, focusing on international students. “Darby is a rising star in our library and a great example of the initiative, energy, and creative thinking that we […]
Read MoreGeneticists led by University of Utah Nobel Prize Laureate Mario R. Capecchi, Ph.D., have engineered mice that develop clear cell sarcoma (CCS), a significant step in better understanding how this rare and deadly soft tissue cancer arises. The mouse model also can potentially speed the development of drugs to target genes that must be activated for the cancer to form.
Read MoreThe University of Utah Office of Sustainability will celebrate the university’s commitment to sound environmental practices from Tuesday, Feb. 19 through Friday, Feb. 22 during the 2013 Focus the U on Sustainability events. Highlights include a sustainability teach-in and a documentary screening, with the featured presentation “Innovative Sustainability Symposium” on Feb. 21. All events are free and open to the public.
Read MoreYou don’t have to leave Utah to meet people from around the world, experience the exhilaration of climbing exotic cliffs in a remote Chinese province or skiing in the high peaks of Afghanistan. All you have to do is come to the 2012-2013 Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour at the University of Utah.
Read MoreA University of Utah seismologist analyzed seismic waves that bombarded Earth’s core, and believes he got a look at the earliest roots of Earth’s most cataclysmic kind of volcanic eruption. But don’t worry. He says it won’t happen for perhaps 200 million years.
Read MoreThe Salt Lake City Mayor’s Office and the College of Architecture + Planning at the University of Utah are again bringing together a host of interested people to uncover new ways of using city treasures that have been “hidden in plain sight.”
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