University of Utah scientists developed a new crime-fighting tool by showing that human hair reveals the general location where a person drank water, helping police track past movements of criminal suspects or unidentified murder victims.
Read MoreSociety’s attitudes toward different drugs and its ways of regulating them are often “inconsistent,” “incoherent” and ultimately unjust, says a new book by a team of University of Utah scholars.
Oct. 4, 2007 – University of Utah scientists discovered a strange method of reproduction in primitive plants named cycads: The plants heat up and emit a toxic odor to drive pollen-covered insects out of male cycad cones, and then use a milder odor to draw the bugs into female cones so the plants are pollinated.
Read MoreThe Nonprofit Academy of Excellence at the University of Utah is a new, certificate-based program created to inspire excellence in nonprofit management and governance. This unique program is customized for managers, staff, and trustees of Utah’s nonprofit community. It will teach enhanced organizational capacity and effectiveness to professionals and volunteers seeking training and development in nonprofit management. Developed in collaboration with the Utah Nonprofits Association and the Utah Society of Fund Raisers, the Academy is guided by an Advisory Committee of distinguished professionals from the nonprofit sector, representing corporate giving to board members to nonprofit management roles (see end for list of Committee members). The new program will begin in fall 2007, with new classes and cohorts beginning each spring and fall thereafter. An Open House on June 28 will provide additional information to anyone interested in learning more about the program.
Read MoreSome 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.
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