The Board of Trustees of the Chicano Scholarship Foundation is honored to announce the arrival of a milestone in the fund’s history with awards of three full ride scholarships at this year”s banquet May 9th, 2006 at 7:00 p.m. at the University of Utah Union Ballroom.
Read MoreThe public can get a sampling of the wide variety of research being performed by undergraduate students at the University of Utah on Monday when the U’s Honors and Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programs present a symposium, from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m., in the Olpin Union, 200 S. Central Campus Drive (1595 E.), on the University of Utah campus.
Read MoreThe Utah Science Center and the University of Utah today announced they are seeking entries for the 2006 Salt Lake Valley Science and Engineering Fair from fifth through 12th-grade students. Fair organizers also are seeking adults to serve as judges and in other volunteer positions.
Read MoreThe University of Utah Department of Public Safety is asking for the public’s help finding some championship football rings recently stolen from the Dee glen Smith Athletic Center. Police received a report that someone forced open a display cabinet in the facility and stole a case containing eight football rings that belong to head University of Utah football coach Kyle Whittingham.
Read MoreUniversity of Utah researchers showed that a fruit fly gene is crucial for determining when juveniles begin to mature into adults, and how the transformation initially proceeds. Understanding this process in humans may help explain how adorable children become surly teenagers.
Read MoreUniversity of Utah President Michael K. Young has announced the beginning of a campus-wide study of the school’s athletics program as part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s (NCAA) certification program. The purpose of the certification program, which all Division I institutions undergo every 10 years, is to ensure integrity in the U’s athletics operations.
Read MoreThe pharmaceutical company Cognetix, Inc., located in Research Park at 421 Wakara Way, Suite 201, will be the site of a news conference on Utah Amendment 2 to be held Thursday, Oct. 28 at 10 a.m. Speakers will include representatives from the University of Utah, Utah State University, the Utah System of Higher Education, and Cognetix.
Read MoreOver the past 20 years, immigrants have come to Utah in unprecedented numbers and from a new direction. That’s one of the conclusions of a new study on immigration conducted by the University of Utah’s Bureau of Business and Economic Research. The study entitled Immigrants Transform Utah: Entering A New Era of Diversity is largely based on data from the decennial censuses from 1850-2000 (Bureau of the Census).
Read MoreWIMPs speeding at 670,000 mph on a “highway” in space may be raining onto Earth – a phenomenon that might prove the existence of “dark matter” that makes up most our galaxy and one-fourth of the universe, says a study co-authored by a University of Utah physicist.
Read MoreThe results of a clinical trial sponsored by the National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, may help ophthalmologists better treat premature infants suffering from a blinding eye disease known as retinopathy of prematurity (ROP). The disorder primarily affects premature infants who are born before 31 weeks of gestation and weigh less than 2.75 pounds.
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