Randy Silverman, preservation librarian for the University of Utah’s Marriott Library and materials recovery specialist on the U of U’s Comprehensive Emergency Management Team, recently returned from a disaster recovery mission focused on cultural materials on Mississippi’s Gulf Coast damaged by Hurricane Katrina.
Read MoreGood news for the class of 2005 who will graduate from the University of Utah on Friday. If employers do what they say, they will hire more new college graduates than they hired in 2004, and they will pay them higher salaries than were offered to last year’s graduating class.
Read MoreOne hundred years after Albert Einstein’s major discoveries, physicists and the United Nations are observing 2005 as the World Year of Physics. The University of Utah will celebrate with lectures, exhibits, tours, a film festival, observatory star parties and an Einstein look-alike contest.
Read MoreA home University of Utah architecture graduate students built for Rosie Joe and her family in Bluff, Utah, a small town located in the San Juan River Valley, will be dedicated in a Navajo ceremony on Sunday, July 18, at noon. The site, located in southwestern Utah, is 273 miles from Salt Lake City and can be reached by traveling 16 miles south of Bluff, on Highway 191, then five miles east on San Juan County Road 443.
Read MorePropelled by strong single-family construction activity and unexpected growth in nonresidential construction, the value of permit-authorized construction in Utah during 2003 reached a record $4.56 billion. The University of Utah’s Bureau of Economic and Business Research (BEBR) at the David Eccles School of Business revealed the record figure in a new study published this week.
Read MoreIn celebration of National Coming Out Day, the University of Utah Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (LGBT) Resource Center will present a series of Pride 2003 lectures, activities and performances. These events will run from Oct. 1st through the 18th, with National Coming Out Day on Oct. 11th.
Read MoreThe University of Utah College of Social Work will sponsor its annual Summer Institute in Human Services, from July 7 through 18, on the University campus. All courses will be held in the Social Work or nearby buildings. The intensive two-week institute, now in its 19th year, draws more than 1,000 attendees from Utah and across the United States.
Read MoreCensus data from Utah released is being analyzed closely by the University of Utah’s Bureau of Economic and Business Research (BEBR) because of its potential to reshape the state’s political boundaries. The Census Bureau today also shipped local 2010 Census data to the governor and leadership of the state legislature in Utah.
Read MoreSki Affair will celebrate its 20th anniversary honoring national collegiate, World Cup, Olympic and Paralympic skiers who will receive the coveted History-Maker Awards, recognizing athletes who have contributed to the advancement of winter sports in the Intermountain Region.
Read MoreCritical race scholars in education will convene May 12 – 15, 2010 at the University of Utah to confront the notion that we are living in a post-racial era. “Deconstructing Contemporary Post-racial Discourses” is the theme for the fourth annual Critical Race Studies in Education Association conference.
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