Student representatives from Utah colleges and universities will convene on Capitol Hill Wednesday, Mar. 12 at noon for a press conference celebrating recent approval of a state-wide tax-exemption on textbooks for institutions of higher education. The press conference will focus on the accomplishments of the Coalition of Higher Education for Affordable Textbooks.
Read MorePatients diagnosed with multiple myeloma, an often deadly bone marrow cancer, rarely live more than three years after diagnosis if treated with conventional chemotherapy or even some of the newer drug therapies. However, a new program at Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah is now providing another treatment option that offers hope to multiple myeloma patients-a chance to live 10 or more years following diagnosis.
Read MoreUniversity Neighborhood Partners (UNP) will celebrate its fifth anniversary on Thursday, November 1, 2007 with a dinner for founding donors and current partners at Red Butte Garden. Vice President for University Relations and UNP Board of Advisors co-chair Fred Esplin will welcome the 150 guests as Master of Ceremonies for the evening. UNP founding director Irene Fisher will announce the creation of the UNP Pathfinder Scholarship Fund, which is slated to provide tuition and fee assistance to west Salt Lake youth and adults pursuing pre-college exposure to higher education through classes, field trips, institutes and other educational programs beginning in 2008.
Read MoreIvory Homes is celebrating its fourth year of awarding Ivory Homes scholarships to students attending the University of Utah with a luncheon for current recipients and their parents and former recipients.
Read MorePresident Young, distinguished faculty and guests, my fellow students, friends and family: Rumi, the great Sufi mystic and the most widely read poet around the world once said, “Your soul is worth more than the heavens and the earth; don’t sell it at a lower price.”
Read MoreSecretary Madeleine K. Albright, president of the Harry S Truman Scholarship Foundation, announced University of Utah’s Bryson Morgan as one of 65 students selected from 56 U.S. colleges and universities as a 2007 Truman Scholar.
Read MoreItaly seems to be everyone’s darling destination, both for work and play. This January 17-27, seven University of Utah (the U) athletes will play hard in the 2007 Winter World University Games in Torino, Italy. Ashlee Barnett, Becky Lang, April Medley, James Cholweinski, Patrick Meek, and Matthew Plummer will join the United States long track speed skating team and Tague Thorson of the U’s ski team will represent the U.S. in alpine skiing.
Read MoreCampus Recreation Services’ Outdoor Recreation Program won the David J. Webb Program Excellence Award. The recognition was bestowed earlier this month at the International Conference on Outdoor Recreation and Education (ICORE) in Boise, Idaho.
Read MoreUnlike Iowa and New Hampshire, which lead the nation in choosing early presidential candidates, the West has, because of much later primary election dates, had the least impact on the presidential nomination process. But that may change if Western states unite behind a common primary date.
Read MoreUniversity of Utah Hospital, for the 13th time, has been named one of America’s best hospitals by U.S. News & World Report.
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