Space is not a fun place to get a stomach bug. To ensure drinking water is adequately disinfected, University of Utah chemists developed a two-minute water quality monitoring method that just started six months of tests aboard the International Space Station.
Read MoreThe University of Utah announced today that The Suder Foundation (TSF) has awarded two grants to the Office for Equity and Diversity for research and planning toward the creation of The Suder Scholars Program, a new national scholarship program designed to improve graduation rates of selected first-generation college-bound students.
Read MoreTwo weeks after the rains begin, an elephant family named “the Royals” usually switches to a grass diet to bulk up for pregnancy and birth. But when they wandered off their African reserve one rainy season, cattle grazed the grass so short that elephants couldn’t eat it, according to a University of Utah study.
Read MoreThe Center for Public Policy & Administration at The University of Utah recently completed a survey of Utahns to measure the public’s attitudes and opinions about many of the issues facing the state this year.
Read MoreSwoop has left his nest and is migrating to the Big Easy to cheer for the Utes on the gridiron in the Allstate Sugar Bowl. Well, it’s not the full-sized Swoop, but his 10-inch-tall cousin. Jonathan Bowen, board member with the MUSS student fan club will be carting around the miniature version of the Utes’ mascot as he and his college buddies hit the road and drive to New Orleans for the big game. Anyone can vicariously go along by logging onto Jonathan’s new blog set up by University Marketing & Communications. The blog address is http://www.sweettasteofvictory.blogspot.com/.
Read MoreJohn Lupton, associate professor of physics at the University of Utah, received a Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering, worth $875,000, from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation for his innovative LED technological research.
Read MoreA university’s presence on the World Wide Web can show its contribution to scientific research and other scholarship, and that can be compared to the internet footprint of other schools to develop an overall ranking. That’s the method used by the Webometric Ranking of World Universities to select institutions of higher education to be on its list.
Read MoreThe University of Utah will host its eleventh annual Veterans Day Commemoration Program on Tuesday, November 11, 2008 to honor Utah veterans who have served our country in the military. Again this year, the U is inviting nominations for honorees residing in Utah.
Read MoreWhat more can you give a Nobel Prize winner, after he’s been feted by Swedish royalty and presented the golden medal that represents the pinnacle of scientific achievement?
Read MoreResearchers discovered genetic evidence that human evolution is speeding up – and has not halted or proceeded at a constant rate, as had been thought – indicating that humans on different continents are becoming increasingly different.
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