Many wonder how it is possible that during the 1990s, when stock and home equity values were rising, the net worth of many Americans declined. What do these changes in wealth holdings imply for low- and moderate-income families? Will they be able to buy a home, send their children to college and live comfortably during retirement?
Read MoreThis week 23-year-old Lupe Figueroa, a senior in Spanish and Human Communications at California State University Monterey Bay (CSUMB), will finish up eight weeks of graduate school-level research at the University of Utah. She is one of 23 students completing this year’s Summer Research Opportunity Program (SROP), sponsored campus-wide by the U’s Graduate School.
Read MoreThe Bennion Center at the University of Utah is sponsoring “Dead Man Walking-The Journey Continues,” a lecture by best-selling author Sister Helen Prejean. The presentation is Thursday, May 2, at 7:30 p.m., in room 134 of the University’s Graduate School of Social Work, 395 South 1500 East. Student tickets are $4. General admission tickets are $5. Admission fees will be used to benefit the Inmate Services Program. Copies of Dead Man Walking will be available for purchase and signing by Prejean. For more information, call 801-654-0533.
Read MoreA new 98-minute documentary by University of Utah Film Studies Professor Brian Patrick explores how descendants of the victims and perpetrators of one of Utah’s most heinous and unresolved crimes, are choosing to deal with wounds that span generations and were inflicted 146 years ago.
Read MoreIn celebration of National Coming Out Day, Oct. 11, the University of Utah’s Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (LGBT) Resource Center, the Gay and Lesbian Community Center of Utah and the Utah AIDS Foundation are sponsoring weeklong events, including appearances by Olympic medallist Greg Louganis, widely considered the greatest diver in history. In 1995 Louganis revealed he has AIDS.
Read MoreIn the last decade, the popularity of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) has increased, leading to a steady increase in federal funding over the last five years. (Congress appropriated $4.4 billion for 2002, up from the $2.1 billion in 1990.) Yet much of WIC’s reputation has been built upon state-not nationally representative-evaluations mostly conducted more than a decade ago.
Read MoreBy donating a used backpack, which has carried books from class to class, a University of Utah student can be part of the process that transforms the former tote into a suitcase of sorts for a refugee child in Mali, Ghana, Mozambique or Afghanistan.
Read MoreThe University of Utah’s Middle East Center announces the second lecture in the U’s lecture series on the Iraq Crisis. On Wednesday, Feb. 12, Rami G. Khouri, executive editor of The Daily Star in Beirut, Lebanon, will speak on “Anti-Americanism in the Arab World: Roots, Repercussions, and Remedies.” The event, which is free and open to the public, will be held from 2 until 3:30 p.m. in the Dumke Auditorium of the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, located next to the David Eccles School of Business.
Read MoreHave you ever gone to bed wondering what you would eat the following day? Have you ever awakened the next morning knowing that there was nothing to eat? On a global level, hunger continues to plague an estimated 800 million people, including 31 million in the United States. Of the 24,000 people worldwide who die daily from lack of adequate food and nutrition, 18,000 are children age five and under. Yet 15 percent of the world’s population consumes 78 percent of the earth’s resources.
Read MoreMartha S. Bradley, associate professor of architecture in the University of Utah’s Graduate School of Architecture, has been named director of the University’s Honors Program. She succeeds Richard D. Rieke, who has served as the program’s director since 1995. Bradley will assume the position on Aug. 1 and will continue to teach part-time.
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