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Genetic Variations Put Youth at Higher Risk

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Common genetic variations affecting nicotine receptors in the nervous system can significantly increase the chance that European Americans who begin smoking by age 17 will struggle with lifelong nicotine addiction, according to researchers at the University of Utah and their colleagues at University of Wisconsin-Madison. The study, published in the July 11, 2008 issue of PLoS Genetics, highlights the importance of public health efforts to reduce the number of youth who begin smoking.

March 25, 2011

U Student Awarded Fulbright Scholarship

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Lynnette Averill, a Ph.D. student at the University of Utah studying counseling psychology, will take her work to Melbourne, Australia for a year beginning this fall, funded as a Fulbright Scholar.

March 25, 2011

Statement of Condolence from University of Utah President Michael K. Young

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The following letter was sent to President John Peters, Northern Illinois University, February 14, 2008.

March 25, 2011

SOCIAL JUSTICE ACCORDING TO STUDENTS

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Honors students are taking civic engagement into their own hands by organizing and leading a symposium on social justice.

March 25, 2011

DOCTOR-AIDED SUICIDE: NO SLIPPERY SLOPE

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Contrary to arguments by critics, a University of Utah-led study found that legalizing physician-assisted suicide in Oregon and the Netherlands did not result in a disproportionate number of deaths among the elderly, poor, women, minorities, uninsured, minors, chronically ill, less educated or psychiatric patients.

March 25, 2011

Mutating the Entire Genome

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Genes account for only 2.5 percent of DNA in the human genetic blueprint, yet diseases can result not only from mutant genes, but from mutations of other DNA that controls genes. University of Utah researchers report in the journal Nature Genetics that they have developed a faster, less expensive technique for mutating those large, non-gene stretches of DNA.

March 25, 2011

CLASS OF 2007 IN DEMAND

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Rising salary offers to new graduates and a 20 percent increase in hiring projections for 2006-7 should give the class of 2007 something to celebrate beyond commencement.

March 25, 2011

Yellowstone’s Quiet Power

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A 17-year University of Utah study of ground movements shows that the power of the huge volcanic hotspot beneath Yellowstone National Park is much greater than previously thought during times when the giant volcano is slumbering.

March 25, 2011

Utah Study Reveals the Face of Minimum Wage Earners in Utah

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A new study by researchers in the Center for Public Policy & Administration at the University of Utah shows the majority of workers earning the minimum wage in Utah are young men. National data shows women are most likely to earn no more than the current minimum wage of $5.15 per hour. Other than the difference in gender, the Utah data shows an overall similarity to the national findings.

March 25, 2011

Poison or Panacea? Fluorine in Our Environment

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The Utah Science Center’s Science in Society free public dialogue series will present “Fluorine: Fluoridation, Teflon and You,” Thursday, Nov. 9, 2006, from 7 p.m. until 9 p.m. in the auditorium of the main downtown Salt Lake City Public Library, 210 East 400 South.

March 25, 2011