Secretary Madeleine K. Albright, president of the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation, announced University of Utah’s Cody Scott Rogers as one of 54 students selected from more than 3,500 student applicants from 283 U.S. colleges and universities as a 2010 Truman Scholar.
Read MoreThe University of Utah Board of Trustees announced today that United States Ambassador to China and former Governor of Utah Jon Huntsman, Jr. will deliver the commencement address at the 2010 commencement ceremony, to be held on Friday, May 7 in the Jon M. Huntsman Center.
Read MoreUniversity of Utah engineers showed that a wireless network of radio transmitters can track people moving behind solid walls. The system could help police, firefighters and others nab intruders, and rescue hostages, fire victims and elderly people who fall in their homes. It also might help retail marketing and border control.
Read MoreThe University of Utah (UofU) and the USTAR Governing Authority today marked Earth Day at the groundbreaking for a $130 million sustainably designed interdisciplinary research facility, the first of four planned buildings on the university’s campus aimed at attracting some of the world’s most internationally recognized faculty and fueling Utah’s economic development activity.
Read MoreWhen locked in mortal combat with infection, some mature white blood cells have a formidable weapon: they literally cast a DNA net-called a neutrophil extracellular trap (NET)-that captures and kills bacteria that invade the human body. But the ability to form this “death” NET is missing in the white blood cells of newborn infants, born either at term or prematurely, and that may explain why millions of newborns worldwide are at higher risk for a potentially deadly blood infection, University of Utah medical researchers have discovered.
Read MoreThe University of Utah has announced that the Marching Utes will be playing in President-elect Barack Obama’s inauguration parade in the nation’s capital on January 20th thanks to generous donors.
Read MoreUniversity of Utah scientists successfully created a sensitive prototype device that could test for dozens or even hundreds of diseases simultaneously by acting like a credit card-swipe machine to scan a card loaded with microscopic blood, saliva or urine samples.
Read MoreAs of Aug. 1, the division that maintains one of the largest graduate programs within the University of Utah health sciences has a new leader, and although there are challenges ahead, Stephen C. Alder, Ph.D., assistant professor of Family and Preventive Medicine, is ready to face them head on.
Read MoreAsk any group of four to 18 year-olds how they anticipate spending their summer vacation and “go to school” will likely not make the top ten responses. Rock climbing, rafting, bicycling, photography, swimming…these are the favorite picks for summer. Interestingly however, it is in school that youth are perfecting these activities, through the University of Utah’s Youth Education summer camp programs.
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