Jennifer 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.
Read MoreA “LouseBuster” to kill head lice, a method of finding faulty wires on aircraft and a new way to help surgeons remove tumors completely are among University of Utah inventions that will be presented to potential investors on June 24.
Read MoreThe unveiling of the new Brain Institute Web site highlights a week of educational efforts and activities in Utah to coincide with Brain Awareness Week worldwide. Millions of adults and children will participate in public lectures, exhibits, school programs, and competitions during Brain Awareness Week March 14-20. The weeklong educational effort in Utah is made possible with the support of the Neuroscience Program and The Brain Institute at The University of Utah, NPS Pharmaceuticals, and Cognetix, Inc.
Read MoreHumans evolved from ape-like ancestors because they needed to run long distances – perhaps to hunt animals or scavenge carcasses on Africa’s vast savannah – and the ability to run shaped our anatomy, making us look like we do today.
Read MoreA groundbreaking ceremony will be held 9 a.m. Saturday Aug. 28 in the desert southwest of Delta, Utah, for the Telescope Array – a Japanese and American cosmic ray observatory designed to find the source of the most energetic particles in the universe.
Read MoreThe State Board of Regents announced Thursday three finalists for the Presidency of the University of Utah. The Finalists were recommended by the 21-member Search Committee after an extensive national search.
Read MoreThe University of Utah and a group of Japanese and U.S. universities plan to build a $17 million to $18 million cosmic ray observatory named the Telescope Array in central Utah’s Millard County. It will try to determine the mysterious source of the most energetic particles in the universe.
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