Earth Day activities at the University of Utah are an important part of the campus each year and too numerous to fit into the nationally designated day of April 22. As a result, people are being encouraged to get involved in many different ways to preserve the environment over a two-week period.
Read MoreThe Lowell Bennion Community Service Center’s 10th annual community service event in honor of Earth Day will be larger than ever – boasting not one, but four different service projects around Salt Lake Valley.
Read MoreUniversity of Utah geophysicists made the first large-scale picture of the electrical conductivity of the gigantic underground plume of hot and partly molten rock that feeds the Yellowstone supervolcano. The image suggests the plume is even bigger than it appears in earlier images made with earthquake waves.
Read MoreOn June 22, 1941, Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in what has been called a “war of annihilation” in Hitler’s quest for world domination and Jewish extermination. The University of Utah’s 2011 Days of Remembrance week will commemorate the Holocaust of World War II with an examination of this tragic invasion, in which hundreds of thousands of lives were lost. The theme is “70 Years Later: Remembering the Nazi Invasion of the Soviet Union.” Millions of victims, including over 6 million Jews, were murdered by the Nazi regime during the Holocaust.
Read More“American Experience”, America’s most-watched history series, today announced that 40 college students-including a University of Utah student-have been selected for the 2011 Student Freedom Ride in conjunction with the broadcast of “Freedom Riders” and the 50th anniversary of the original May 1961 Civil Rights Freedom Rides.
Read MoreFossil teeth of African animals show that during the past 10 million years, different plant-eating critters began grazing on grass at different times as many switched from a salad-bar diet of tree leaves and shrubs, says a University of Utah study.
Read MoreWhen people needing emergency assistance at the University of Utah dial 9-1-1 for help, campus police dispatchers will now have access to a wealth of information about the caller, something that was not available to them until this week. The improvements are the result of the University Department of Public Safety’s just completed upgrade of its computer software to allow for enhanced 911 (e911) service.
Read MoreAs part of its ongoing effort to encourage green transportation methods, University of Utah Commuter Services has installed two bicycle repair stands on campus. The stands are located by the bicycle collective in the business loop and at the southwest corner of the Olpin Student Union. These repair stations stands are the first of their kind on campus and other locations are being studied for additional stands.
Read MoreSolitude Mountain Resort will host the annual Ski and Shred Red Day on
April 1, 2011. The University of Utah and Solitude have teamed up in the past with hundreds of students, faculty and staff taking advantage of a cut-rate ticket price.
Two Utah schools will be honored by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Center for Community of Caring housed at the University of Utah as the Utah State Schools of Character (SSOC) 2011. Blessed Sacrament Catholic School in Sandy and Mountainville Academy in Alpine will be recognized at a ceremony on April 6, 2011 at the University of Utah. Daybreak Elementary in South Jordan received an honorable mention.
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