The University of Utah College of Science’s ACCESS Program for Women in Science and Mathematics is being highlighted at an event to announce a grant to the program from Chevron. The program began in 1991 as a way to address the problem of gender inequity in mathematics and the sciences.
Read MoreFour University of Utah faculty members – physicist David Kieda, demographer Geraldine Mineau, geochemist Thure Cerling and anesthesiologist Theodore Stanley – are among 10 winners of the 2012 Utah Governor’s Medal for Science and Technology.
Read MoreThe American Mathematical Society has named 1,119 mathematicians from around the word to its inaugural class of fellows, and the list includes eight mathematics faculty members at the University of Utah. They are Distinguished Professor Emeritus Paul Fife; two professors emeritus, Paul C. Roberts and Hugo Rossi; two distinguished professors, Mladen Bestvina and Christopher Hacon; […]
Read MoreM David Rudd, dean of the College of Social and Behavioral Science at the University of Utah since 2009 has been named provost of the University of Memphis. A search for a new dean for the U’s largest college will begin immediately.
Read MoreFour University of Utah faculty members – including President David Pershing – have been elected as charter fellows of the National Academy of Inventors.
Read MoreThe U.S. Department of Defense has awarded University of Utah computer scientist Mary Hall a $1.6 million grant to develop computer software that could dramatically improve how much information can be collected and processed by robotic vehicles and airborne drones.
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 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.
Read MoreThe American Academy in Berlin has announced that Lance Olsen, professor of literature & creative writing for the University of Utah’s Department of English in the College of Humanities, is a recipient of its Berlin Prize fellowship for the spring 2013 term.
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