The start of November means that the college football season is entering the home stretch and that emotionally charged rivalry games are soon to come. The start of November also means that local charitable organizations will be working hard to help needy Utah families, and Utah fans can help support the Utes and the Utah Food Bank at the same time.
Read MoreThe University of Utah invites future innovators, scientists and engineers to register for the FIRST LEGO League (FLL), an event to be held January 29, 2011 at the U.
Read MoreNPR’s Car Talk guys, Tom and Ray Magliozzi, may be a couple of motor mouths, but they always put a lid on using cell phones behind the wheel. The perennial jokesters confirm their serious commitment to addressing the issue of devices that take a driver’s focus off the road by teaming with the University of Utah to launch the Driver Distraction Center at their web site: cartalk.com/distraction.
Read MoreUtah fans swept BYU by winning both the food and monetary donation portions of the annual Utah/BYU Rivalry Week Food Drive. Utah supporters donated $60,228 and 232,767 pounds of food, while BYU fans did their part in the fight against hunger by raising $55,285 and 162,318 pounds of food.
Read MoreAnyone who has visited the ancient ruins of great civilizations can appreciate the difficulty of visualizing the buildings at their peak. Today’s visitor to the British Museum can see structures of the Aztecs, thanks to one professor’s research into the ancient architecture that served as the center stage of Aztec ceremonial life, combined with an ultra-modern electronic digital modeling process.
Read MoreLocal media will join (we hope) the PR team, as well as physicians, staff and patients at University Hospital this Thursday at 10 a.m. to celebrate the completion of a three-year $130 million expansion of the state’s only academic medical center. In addition to increasing the number of private rooms, creating a new lobby and improving access to the hospitals services, the expansion also features a convenient parking lot for local news media (which unfortunately will be covered with a giant tent for the ribbon cutting ceremony).
Read MoreAs the economy slows and employers reduce their hiring outlook for full-time post graduation positions, internship programs become even more attractive to employers. Many campus recruiters have shifted their hiring emphasis toward internships this spring. Many University of Utah students are taking advantage of the opportunities.
Read MoreGovernment officials, industry representatives and energy researchers will convene at the University of Utah on Friday, Feb. 27 for an annual conference about the potential for extracting petroleum products from oil sands.
Read MoreUniversity of Utah researchers dusted wild deer mice with fluorescent pink, blue, green, yellow and orange talcum powders to show which rodents most often fought or mated with others and thus were most likely to spread deadly hantavirus. The study identified bigger, older mice as the culprits.
Read MoreUniversity of Utah geologists identified an amazing concentration of dinosaur footprints that they call “a dinosaur dance floor,” located in a wilderness on the Arizona-Utah border where there was a sandy desert oasis 190 million years ago.
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