Fifty years ago the Middle East Center at the University of Utah was founded to to enhance awareness of the Middle East, its diverse peoples and cultures. The center promotes both specialized knowledge and public understanding of this crucial area of the world, which includes the Arab states, Turkey, Iran and Israel.
Read MoreMarilyn Luptak, a JA Hartford Faculty Scholar in Geriatric Social Work and an assistant professor at the University of Utah College of Social Work, was awarded the 2010 Mary Shields McPhee Memorial Award for Faculty Excellence. The annual award recognizes faculty who excel in the area of teaching, research, or community service.
Read MoreA Google software program called SketchUp, which was intended largely for architects and design professionals, has found a very unexpected and welcome fan base-children with autism. SketchUp is entertaining kids with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) as well as providing them with skills that might one day help them as they age out of school and into the workforce.
Read MoreAccording to the Food Banks of Utah, hunger affects one out of every four children in the state. Globally, some 800 million people in the world suffer from hunger and malnutrition, about 100 times as many as those who actually die from it each year.
Read MoreOctavio Villalpando, associate vice president, Office for Equity and Diversity at the University of Utah announced today the recipients of the 14th Annual Equity and Diversity Awards. The awards are presented to outstanding individuals and organizations who have demonstrated sustained excellence in fostering leadership and a commitment to promote and enhance equity and diversity for students, staff and faculty at the University of Utah. Caitlin Cahill, Jannah J. Hurn Mather, Aretha M. Minor and Deidre Hughes Schoenfeld are this year’s award recipients.
Read MoreNow more than ever, the Middle East is introduced to Americans through newscasts of violent warfare, poverty and aggression. Yet film makers from the region tell a different tale. The University of Utah’s Middle East film series provides viewers a personal glimpse into the lives, loves, struggles and languages of the complex peoples and cultures of this region.
Read MoreHuman rights activist, poet and teacher Ericka Huggins will give the keynote address at this year’s Pride Week Celebration at the University of Utah. Activate, Transform, Evolve is the title for Pride Week which will take place from October 20th through the 24th and will feature a variety of events. Huggins will speak on October 23 at noon in the Utah Museum of Fine Arts. A “gay-la” dinner and silent auction will close the week’s events on October 24 at 6:00 p.m. at the IJ and Jeanne Wagner Jewish Community Center located at 2 North Medical Drive.
Read MoreLinda Poulson Dunn, vice president of Dunn Communications and recent executive director of Utah Campus Compact, has been named director of the University of Utah’s Lowell Bennion Community Service Center. She succeeds Marshall Welch, who served as the program’s director since 2001. Dunn will assume the position on May 12.
Read MoreLiving in former Yugoslavia, a country torn by ethnic conflict, my family faced the enormous challenge of surviving in a hostile urban war environment. We escaped, first fleeing as refugees to Hungry and then to Germany. With the clothing on our backs and no money in our pockets, my family made an ambitious effort to pursue a better life in the U.S. Having little knowledge of the American culture and no knowledge of the English language we reached for the “American Dream.”
–Marko Mijic, ASUU Government Relations Director, B.S. candidate, University of Utah
The United States is becoming increasingly diverse, and yet many discussions of race continue to be based on the assumption that issues can be seen as black and white. Frank Wu, author of Yellow: Race in American Beyond Black and White, and co-author of Race, Rights and Reparation: Law and the Japanese American Internment will visit the University of Utah’s College of Social Work on Monday, October 22, to propose a paradigm shift for the discussion of civil rights.
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