A University of Utah research team has been awarded a $1,824,000 five-year grant by the National Science Foundation to study the ecology of hantavirus in deer mice that carry the potentially deadly virus and transmit it to humans.
Read MoreDebra S. Daniels will be the new director of the University of Utah’s Women’s Resource Center when Kathryn Brooks retires July 11 after 14 years of service in that position. Daniels’ appointment is effective July 14 and follows the completion of a national search for the position.
Read MoreThe University of Utah (the U) is the No. 1 research institution in the country when it comes to creating startup companies based on university technology – and the U achieved this ranking with a fraction of the research budget at other top universities.
Read MoreThe University of Utah is striving to become a hub for clean-energy technologies, and the federal government took notice last week, as the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) awarded the university $1.05 million to launch a new Energy Innovation Commercialization Center. The U was one of only five institutions in the country to get a piece of the $5.3 million awarded by the DOE to build and strengthen the nation’s “innovation ecosystems.”
Read MoreA University of Utah researcher helped discover how a “wimpy” protein motor works with two other proteins to gain the strength necessary to move nerve cells and components inside them. The findings shed light on brain development and provide clues to a rare brain disorder that often kills babies within months of birth.
Read MoreThe University of Utah Genetic Science Learning Center Web sites that have brought millions of viewers fascinating animations of the size and scale of cells, drug-addicted mice, and other captivating lessons in genetics, have been honored by the journal Science with the first Science Prize for Online Resources in Education (SPORE) Award.
Read MoreElder Tommy George has not spoken his aboriginal language of Kuku Thaypan for three years, since his brother died. “It might die in the throat, but it stays alive in the heart,” he said to the Queensland Courier-Mail in June, 2009.
Read MoreYouth Education at The University of Utah was recently awarded Best Day Camp in Salt Lake City in Nickelodeon’s second annual Parents’ Picks Awards – beating out six other nominees in a nationwide online poll.
Read Morehe University of Utah will host its 12th annual Veterans Day Commemoration program on Wednesday, November 11, 2009 to honor those who have served our country in the military. Again this year, the U is inviting nominations for veterans who live in Utah. The ceremony is considered one of the largest of its kind on a college campus anywhere in the country.
Read MoreThere’s no spring break for three University of Utah graduate students who returned to campus today with the life sciences grand prize-$20,000 in cash and $20,000 of in-kind services-from the Carnegie Mellon McGinnis Venture Competition. The U of U team competed against 30 teams of graduate students from 24 colleges and universities over a 3-day period and dominated one of the nation’s premier new venture competitions.
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