Some students search for employment for months after graduation, but for students involved in the University of Utah’s Lassonde New Venture Development Center (NVDC), it seems that employment is searching for them.
Read MoreApe-like human ancestors known as australopiths maintained short legs for 2 million years because a squat physique and stance helped the males fight over access to females, a University of Utah study concludes.
Read MoreLarge families reduce the chances of survival for parents, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Utah (the U). The study, published in the current issue of The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) and entitled “Differential fitness costs of reproduction between the sexes,” analyzed data from over 21,000 couples married between 1860 and 1895 identified in the Utah Population Database. The research team, led by Dr. Ken Smith at the University of Utah and Dr. Dustin Penn at the Konrad Lorenz Institute of Ethology, found that the more children couples had, the greater their risk of mortality.
Read MoreA summer thunderstorm often provides much-needed rainfall and heat wave relief, but others bring large hail, destructive winds, and tornadoes. Now with the help of NASA satellite data, scientists from the University of Utah and elsewhere are gaining insight into the distribution of such storms around much of the world.
Read MoreAs their kids head back to school, 18 local adults are graduating from an advanced English as a Second Language (ESL) program, which makes it possible for them to aspire to professional occupations or to university education. Since January, the students have been meeting Mondays through Thursdays for two hours each night for intensive classes sponsored by Zions Bank Su Banco in partnership with the University of Utah’s English Language Institute (ELI).
Read MoreUtah, along with many other states across the nation, will be employing new voting technologies in this year’s primary elections. But, instead of punching ballot cards, registered Utah voters will encounter new touchscreen voting equipment.
Read MoreJennifer Maurine Seelig, a Ph.D. candidate in the University of Utah’s Political Science Department, is looking for a dissertation question which focuses on community participation in democracy. Seelig may well find her answer serving as Legislative District 23″s new state representative, replacing Duane Bordeaux, who retired in April.
Read MoreBaldomero “Toto” Olivera, a University of Utah biologist who has spent his career developing new medicines from the toxins of deadly cone snails, has won a four-year, $1 million award as one of 20 new “Million-Dollar Professors” named by the prestigious Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI).
Read MoreFounders Day at the University of Utah will be celebrated this year with a series of compelling lectures by distinguished alumni. One of the talks, by author Matthew R. Simmons, deals with a topic of great importance today to people all over the world-Middle East oil. Simmons will discuss his much heralded book, Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy. The lecture is set for Feb. 22 at the Hinckley Institute of Politics, 255 Orson Spencer Hall, at 2 p.m.
Read MoreA scientific method that has been used to track the source of illegal drugs, explosives, counterfeit bills and biological warfare agents may have some new uses: detecting rapidly growing cancers and studying obesity and eating disorders.
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