Richard J. Sperry, M.D., Ph.D., associate vice president for health sciences at the University of Utah, has been named to the Governor Scott M. Matheson Chair in Health Care and Health Management.
Read MoreRugby is not a game widely played in America, and most colleges and universities, including the University of Utah, don’t recognize it on an official team sport. But that didn’t stop the U’s Rugby Club from playing teams from all over the country and making it all the way to the Final Four. The squad is in Virginia Beach, Va. this weekend May 5-6 to battle it out for the Division I Collegiate Men’s National Championship. The other three teams who made it to the Final Four are defending national champion Cal Berkeley, Wyoming and Army.
Read More“All Aboard” Party presidential and vice presidential candidates Adrian Johnson and Anthony White are the winners of the Associated Students of the University of Utah (ASUU) final elections. Johnson and White beat Summit Party candidates Jake Werrett and Rob Wood by 239 votes. (Johnson and White received 1,822 votes. Werrett and Wood received 1,583 votes.) The announcement was made in the Union’s Crimson Underground during half time of the Runnin’ Ute’s Mountain West Conference tournament.
Read MoreThe University of Utah has hired Urban Meyer as its new head football coach, Utah Director of Athletics Dr. Chris Hill announced today. Meyer, the head coach at Bowling Green State University for the past two years, has agreed to a five-year contract worth $400,000 a year.
Read MoreWomen are underrepresented in physical science and engineering professions in most countries. They become even scarcer as the level of education and responsibility rises. This talk will share highlights from the International Conference on Women in Physics, which brought together 300 physicists from 65 countries this past March. Hartline will emphasize actions that can improve the status of women in the physical sciences, thereby benefiting the science community and society as a whole.
Read MoreMike Perez was recently appointed to the position of associate vice president for facilities management at the University of Utah. Perez replaces Randy Turpin who retired earlier this summer.
Read MoreTwo videos produced by eye surgeons from the University of Utah’s Moran Eye Center recently received awards from the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (ASCRS). The coveted ASCRS awards are the ophthalmic equivalent of the movie industry’s Oscar awards.
Read MoreTwo neighbors have a dispute about damage to one of their properties. A student is truant from his high school for several weeks. Former business partners have different views on assets they should keep after parting ways. All of these situations could be the start of protracted legal battles in the courts with costly attorneys’ fees and a permanent rift in relationships.
Read MoreUniversity of Utah researchers spent two years slicing stems and leaves to discover that the plumbing system carrying water through many plants obeys a 1926 law describing how arteries and vessels carry blood in humans and other animals.
Read MoreGretchen J. Domek, a University of Utah biochemistry student, was one of 32 American students named a Rhodes Scholar on Saturday. The competitive two-year scholarship to Oxford University for international graduate study covers educational costs, travel expenses, and a living and vacation stipend, and is renewable for a third year.
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