The University of Utah will commemorate the Holocaust of World War II during the 2010 Days of Remembrance week with the theme, “70 Years Later: Remembering the German Invasion of Poland.” Millions of victims, including over 6 million Jews, were murdered by the Nazi regime during the Holocaust.
Read MoreAre societies getting healthier as they get older? How can countries benefit from an older workforce? How do multiple familial generations co-exist, and what is the balance among family, market and public supports for older people? These questions will be addressed at the thirteenth annual Rocco C. and Marion S. Siciliano Forum.
Read MoreThe University of Utah will observe Days of Remembrance in honor of the six million Jews who died in the Holocaust during World War II. The Days of Remembrance committee has chosen the name of “Kristallnacht” the “Night of the Broken Glass” as the theme of the commemoration in memory of the infamous night that Nazi storm troopers destroyed Jewish shops and synagogues in Germany. Days of Remembrance will be presented April 13 – 16, 2009 at the University of Utah and will culminate with the Utah state observance of Holocaust Remembrance Day on April 21, 2009.
Read MoreThe University of Utah announced today that The Nancy Peery Marriott Foundation, The Richard E. and Nancy P. Marriott Foundation and The J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott Foundation have together pledged $3 million to the University to establish an endowment that will support scholarships in the School of Music, student performance productions and Kingsbury Hall’s main programming season. In recognition, the auditorium at historic Kingsbury Hall has been named the Nancy Peery Marriott Auditorium.
Read MoreThe University of Utah will host a welcoming event for new and returning American Indian students on Saturday and Sunday August 23 and 24 at the American Indian Resource Center and other campus locations.
Read More“Unless women get into positions of power, we will never end wars, we will never have peace and we will never end violence,” says Dolores Huerta, co-founder and first vice-president of the United Farm Workers.
Read More“Invisible No More: Latinos’ Dignity March in Utah” a powerful photo documentary exhibit of the historic April 6, 2006 immigration march in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah will be presented at the Main City Library, November 19 through December 19, 2007. An Inauguration Ceremony at noon on Monday, November 19th will launch the exhibit. The event is free and open to the public.
Read MoreThe University of Utah Singers’ annual benefit concert will take place on Saturday, May 12 at 7:30 p.m. in the Edgar Thompson Chamber Music Hall of David P. Gardner Hall. Tickets are $15 and can be purchased through the Kingsbury Hall ticket office.
Read MoreMartha Nussbaum, American philosopher and Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago Law School will speak on Thursday, March 1 at 5 p.m. at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts Dumke auditorium.
Read MoreThe University of Utah’s Department of Art and Art History presents Hamza Walker, who will deliver a visiting artist lecture on Thursday, November 16, 2006 at 5:00 p.m. at 375 S. 1530 E., Salt Lake City, in Art Room 158. It is the third in the 2006-07 Visiting Artist and Art Historian Lecture Series. The lecture, entitled “Generational Dislocations: The Case of Raymond Pettibon and Charles Manson,” is free and open to the public.
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