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High Consent Rate Makes University of Utah Hospital A National Leader in Commitment to Organ Donation

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University of Utah Hospital continues to have one of the top organ donation consent rates in the country and the highest in the Intermountain West, according to data collected by the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS). The data, which reflects consent rates of medically eligible organ donors during 2004, shows University Hospital has a consent rate of 95 percent compared to the national average of 50 percent.

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March 25, 2011

U Physicists in Gamma Ray Search

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About a dozen faculty members and students from the University of Utah Dept. of Physics are involved in VERITAS, a $13.1 million gamma ray observatory to be built in Arizona. The observatory will be an array of dish-shaped telescopes designed to observe extremely violent events in the universe that generate high-energy gamma rays.

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March 25, 2011

U of U PreMed Students to Collect Donations for “Cure For The Cold”

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The University of Utah’s Premed Chapter of the American Medical Student Association (AMSA) will sponsor its second annual “Cure For The Cold” campaign to help the homeless. The event is designed to raise awareness of homeless issues while providing an opportunity for students, faculty and staff, community members and local businesses to make a meaningful contribution to Salt Lake’s homeless population.

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March 25, 2011

U of U Rape Aggression Defense Course Teaches Self-Defense Options, Simulates Attacks

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On Wednesday the University of Utah Police Department launched a six-week Rape Aggression Defense (R.A.D.) course, part of a national program to teach and enhance self-defense options for women. The weekly, three-hour, women-only project will be held in the Huntsman Center lounge. The course advocates awareness, prevention, risk reduction, avoidance and then progresses onto the basics of hands-on defense training. Students participate in simulated attacks, which are videotaped and then reviewed to identify students’ strengths and vulnerabilities. (Female members of the media interested in covering the class should call 801-585-1162.)

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March 25, 2011

Tunneling Into An Earthquake Fault

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The news release below, about earthquake research by University of Utah hydrogeologist Craig Forster, was adapted from the American Geophysical Union’s AGU Journal Highlights dated May 13, 2003. Contact information and the dates of online and journal publication have been added.

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March 25, 2011

Computer Memory Takes a Spin

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University of Utah physicists stored information for 112 seconds in what may become the world’s tiniest computer memory: magnetic “spins” in the centers or nuclei of atoms. Then the physicists retrieved and read the data electronically – a big step toward using the new kind of memory for both faster conventional and superfast “quantum” computers.

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March 25, 2011

Big NIH Honor for U Biologist

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University of Utah biologist Andres Villu Maricq will receive $3.75 million to study memory and learning in action, thanks to a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s Pioneer Award meant to encourage promising but risky research.

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March 25, 2011

Bill Moyers Retires Weekly Public Affairs Series

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Bill Moyers, a PBS icon who has been called one of our greatest contemporary progressive journalist and thinkers, retires his weekly public affairs series on PBS at the end of the month. The final episode of “Bill Moyers Journal,” airs Friday April 30th at 8 p.m. on KUED. It will be 90 minutes long.

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March 25, 2011