Only months after collecting a National Medal of Science from President Barack Obama, University of Utah organic chemist Peter J. Stang has won the highest honor from the world’s largest scientific group: the 2013 Priestley Medal from the American Chemical Society.
Read MoreChristopher Hacon, a distinguished professor of mathematics at the University of Utah, has been selected as a Simons Foundation Investigator in this inaugural year of the program.
Read MoreGabriel Bowen – a former University of Utah postdoctoral researcher who returned July 1, 2012 as a faculty member – has won a prestigious award from the American Geophysical Union. The group awarded a James B. Macelwane Medal to Bowen, an associate professor of geology and geophysics. The medal is given annually to three to […]
Read MoreBrittany Coats, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Utah and principal investigator of the Pediatric Injury Biomechanics Laboratory, received a $60,000 research grant from the Knights Templar Eye Foundation.
Read MoreThe University of Utah will receive $5.4 million from a five-year, $20 million National Science Foundation grant in which a group of Utah universities and other groups will work to help study, manage and protect Utah’s scarce water supply.
Read MoreAs part of an Obama Administration effort to conserve power use during manufacturing, the U.S. Department of Energy awarded grants worth up to $6.4 million to University of Utah metallurgical engineers for research aimed at making iron, steel and titanium production more energy efficient.
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 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 […]
Read MoreChris Johnson, director of the University of Utah’s Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute and distinguished professor of computing, received the IEEE IPDPS Charles Babbage Award at the IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium in Shanghai, China on Tuesday, May 22. The award was presented in recognition of Johnson’s “innovations in the area of scientific […]
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