When an alligator eats, the amount it consumes is like a 130-pound woman eating a 30-pound hamburger. University of Utah biologist C. G. Farmer and colleagues have figured out how alligators digest such big–and often bony–meals: They divert blood away from the lungs and toward their stomach, which sharply increases the production of gastric acid needed for digestion.
Geneticist Mario R. Capecchi, the University of Utah’s first Nobel Prize laureate, will be the featured speaker during 2008 commencement ceremonies, university President Michael K. Young announced today.
University of Utah physicists developed small devices that turn heat into sound and then into electricity. The technology holds promise for changing waste heat into electricity, harnessing solar energy and cooling computers and radars.
Read MoreApril 13, 2007 — British composer Judith Bingham has been described as a rare thing in contemporary music, a composer whose music “has the ability to connect and communicate with its audience on an immediate and direct level.”
This April 22, the University of Utah Singers will perform the Utah premiere of Bingham’s Ghost Towns of the American West. The three-act event will take place at 7:30 p.m. in Libby Gardner Concert Hall and will be followed by a reception for the composer.
According to the Administration on Aging, more than 5,000 people celebrate their 65th birthday every day. Of these people 65 and older, only 32 percent use the Internet. The percentage has increased in the past six years from 15 percent, but there is still a large gap separating the older seniors from the 50 to 64 age bracket, 71 percent of whom surf the Web (Pew Internet & American Life Project).
Read MoreLocal adult Latinos are receiving a valuable Christmas present this year – the gift of English language. For months, they have been meeting Mondays through Thursdays for two hours each night for intensive English as Second Language classes sponsored by Zions Bank Su Banco in partnership with the University of Utah’s English Language Institute (ELI).
Read MoreHow do “super-Earths — planets five to 15 times Earth’s size — form around dim stars known as red dwarfs?
Read MoreUniversity of Utah biologist Mary Beckerle, Ph.D., has been selected as the new executive director of the University’s Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI). The announcement was made today by A. Lorris Betz, M.D., Ph.D., University of Utah senior vice president for health sciences, executive dean of the medical school, and CEO of University Health Care.
Read MoreDr. Ed Catmull, co-founder of Pixar Animation Studios, president of Pixar and Disney Animation Studios, and University of Utah alumnus, has been named recipient of the 2006 IEEE John von Neumann Medal for his groundbreaking contributions to special effects that have revolutionized the creation of live-action and animated motion pictures. The IEEE is the world’s leading professional association for the advancement of technology.
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