University of Utah 2004 Commencement Address by Secretary of Homeland Security, Tom Ridge
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University of Utah 2004 Commencement Address.
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U to Host Volleyball Re-match at Moscow-Utah Youth Games
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Russia’s top-level junior age volleyball players will be arriving in Utah on Friday to participate in the Moscow-Utah Youth Games. These games are the winter edition of the Moscow-Utah summer games held in Russia last year. Over 300 of Utah’s finest athletes competed in the summer games in twelve different sports last July. Volleyball is the only sport involved in both the summer and winter edition of these games and promises to offer an exciting rematch between these two teams.
Read MoreA Realistic Way to Save Rainforests
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Misty-eyed idealism alone will not save Earth’s dwindling tropical rainforests. But a five-year, $3 million study in Panama indicates rainforests can be protected if the pharmaceutical industry establishes Third World laboratories and hires local researchers to look for new medicines extracted from plants that evolved defenses against insects.
Read MoreU of U Students to be Immersed in The Mexico Project
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For ten days this month, nine University of Utah students and one U assistant professor will be providing community service and interacting with students with disabilities at the Santigo V. Gonzales School, in Las Piedras Negras (Black Rocks), Mexico, across the Eagle Pass, Texas border.
Read MoreUtah Mathematician Appointed President to Lead CMI
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The Directors of the Clay Mathematics Institute (CMI) are pleased to announce the appointment of James A. Carlson, mathematics professor at the University of Utah, as CMI’s second president, effective August 2003. As president, Carlson will lead the research activities of the Institute, develop programs in Cambridge and elsewhere, and liaison with leading mathematicians worldwide.
Read MorePublic Meeting to Discuss Proposed Tuition Increase
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A meeting will be held to discuss a proposed increase in student tuition beginning the summer term of 2011. The meeting will be held on the University of Utah campus from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. on Tuesday, March 15, 2011 in the East Ballroom of the Olpin Union building and is open to the public.
Read MoreDr. Barlow Bradford Named Visiting Professor of Choral Studies
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The School of Music at the University of Utah has announced the appointment of Barlow Bradford as visiting professor of choral studies. One of Utah’s most prominent and successful conductors, he will assume his duties on November 1.
Read MoreU of U Seeks Nominations for Veterans Day Honor
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The University of Utah will host its 13th annual Veterans Day commemoration program on Thursday, November 11, 2010 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.
Read MoreProtecting Blood Vessels May Offer Way to Fight Sepsis, Influenza, and Other Life-threatening Infections
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Treating virulent influenza, sepsis, and other potentially deadly infections long has focused on looking for ways to kill viruses and bacteria. But new research from the University of Utah and Utah State University shows that modulating the body’s own overeager inflammatory response to infection may help save more lives.
Read MoreYellowstone’s Plumbing Exposed
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The most detailed seismic images yet published of the plumbing that feeds the Yellowstone supervolcano shows a plume of hot and molten rock rising at an angle from the northwest at a depth of at least 410 miles, contradicting claims that there is no deep plume, only shallow hot rock moving like slowly boiling soup.
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