UNIVERSITY OF UTAH PRESS PUBLISHES FOUR AWARD-WINNERS
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Reverend France Davis’s biography, France Davis: An American Story Told, received the 2006 Utah Book Award in non-fiction. The Utah Book Award, given through the
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$322 MILLION FOR FY2007 RESEARCH
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The University of Utah collected $322.6 million in research money, fellowships and financial aid during the 2007 fiscal year – a new record that follows a one-year decline in the university’s economy-boosting science funding.
Read MoreHardman Named Dean of U of U College of Education
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Michael L. Hardman, professor and chair of the University of Utah’s Department of Special Education and the Department of Teaching and Learning, has been named dean of the U’s College of Education. Hardman replaces Dean Ted Packard, who has served as interim dean since May 2006, when former Dean David J. Sperry took a leave from the U and was hired as a scholar in residence by the Board of Regents.
Read MoreKingsbury Hall, Salt Lake City School District and Youth Theatre at the U selected for Kennedy Center’s Partners in Education program
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Kingsbury Hall, on the University of Utah campus, has been selected by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, along with the Salt Lake City School District and Youth Theatre at the U, to be one of 14 teams of arts organizations and school systems from across the nation to participate in the Partners in Education Institute, May 9-12, 2007. The Institute, funded by the U.S. Department of Education; the National Committee for the Performing Arts; the Kennedy Center Corporate Fund; and the Bank of America Foundation, promotes partnerships in communities across the nation between arts organizations and local schools, focusing on the development of education programs for teachers. Robin Wilks-Dunn, education and outreach coordinator for Kingsbury Hall, Rosanne Henderson, arts coordinator for the Salt Lake City School District and Penelope Caywood, artistic director of Youth Theatre at the U, will be attending the Institute in May, with subsequent conferences and training through 2009.
Read MoreU of U’s Marriott Library to Participate in “The September Project”
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For the second consecutive year, the J. Willard Marriott Library at the University of Utah will be participating in “The September Project” (TSP), a worldwide grassroots effort to foster civic engagement on Sept. 11 and throughout the month of September.
Read MoreNational Academy Picks U Anthropologist
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James F. O’Connell, professor and chair of anthropology at the University of Utah, was elected Tuesday as a member of the prestigious National Academy of Sciences.
Read MoreU of U Women’s Resource Center Introduces Young Women to Higher Education
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Aishatu and Aminatu Yusuf say attending college was a natural progression of their learning. “Our mom was a non-traditional college student. I went to school with her and sat in the corner,” says Aminatu, a junior majoring in health promotion and education. “My mom was always telling us the history of African Americans in this country; that we didn’t always have the opportunity to get an education; and that attending college is an opportunity to take.”
Read MoreProfessors Apply Personal Values to their Business Text and Save Students More than (a Combined) $100,000
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Students taking the University of Utah’s summer “Foundations of Business Thought” class, which began three weeks ago, are already deep into the writings of Francis Bacon, Henry David Thoreau and W.E.B. DuBois. What has escaped them is the fact that they saved $30 off the required course book of the same name-thanks to their instructor, U of U Finance Professor Cal Boardman, who spring semester made it a personal crusade to lower the cost of the required text. Over the course of an academic year, students at the U and Salt Lake Community College (SLCC), where a similar, collaborative text is used, will save in excess of a combined $100,000.
Read MoreHumanitarian Paul Famer to Deliver U of U Tanner Lecture on Human Values
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Medical anthropologist, physician and humanitarian Paul Farmer will give this year’s University of Utah Tanner Lecture on Human Values, titled “Can Human Rights Survive? Reflections on Inequality and Modernity,” on Wednesday, March 30, at 8 p.m., in the Utah Museum of Fine Arts’ Dumke Auditorium, 370 S. 1530 E. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Read MoreU of U Researcher Studies Factors that Determine Longevity, Health and Risk of Disease
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We all want to be long-lived. But how?
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