Longtime University of Utah Hospitals & Clinics (UUHC) administrator and Chief Executive Officer Richard A. Fullmer, whose generous manner and caring leadership helped guide the hospitals and clinics for more than a quarter century, died of cancer Feb. 3, 2006.
Read MoreKids can make slime, test mystery powders, inflate balloons with gases from chemical reactions and see how much water polymers can absorb during the Saturday Oct. 15 kickoff for National Chemistry Week.
Read MoreThe University of Utah Singers, a mixed choir made up of 46 University students, recently brought home six awards-including the grand prize-from the Florilege Vocal de Tour International Choir Competition, held in Tours, France, on May 14 and 15. The competition included 18 choirs from 12 nations. The event was part of a month-long European tour for the U students.
Read MoreResearchers at the University of Utah have developed genetically engineered mice that closely mimic what happens to humans who suffer from the juvenile, or dry, form of age-related macular degeneration. The findings are reported in the March 4, 2005 Early Online Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Read MoreGene mutations responsible for causing cataracts in children have been identified by a team of University of Utah vision researchers. The discovery was reported in a recent issue of The Journal of Medical Genetics.
Read MoreThursday, Gov. Olene Walker and the presidents of Utah’s two flagship research universities recognized combined record research funding revenues of nearly a half billion dollars this past fiscal year at the University of Utah and Utah State University.
Read MoreThe Closure of Hill Air Force Base would mean a disaster for Davis County’s economy. That’s the conclusion of a new study entitled “The Economic, Demographic and Fiscal Impacts of Closing Hill Air Force Base: A Statewide and Regional Analysis,” by the Bureau of Business and Economic Research (BEBR) at the University of Utah. The upcoming round of Defense Base Realignments and Closures (BRAC) is threatening the existence of Hill Air Force Base (Hill AFB). The Department of Defense is aggressively approaching this round of BRAC in its attempt to eliminate 20% to 25% of its current capacity.
Read MoreThis year the University of Utah will present at least ten Chicano Scholarship Awards of $1,000 each to new freshman, transfer and current University undergraduate and graduate students. Scholarships of lesser value will be awarded as well. The ten scholarships are awarded to high school seniors and other college students who promote the cultural pride and advancement of the Chicano/Latino community. Recipients are selected on the basis of family background, life challenges, scholastic effort, involvement in the Chicano/Latino community and financial need.
Read MoreConstruction of a $2 million supercomputer comprised of 1,000 smaller computers will begin in September at the University of Utah, where researchers will use the powerful machine to tackle complex problems in biomedical research.
Read MoreBy crunching numbers on a supercomputer for six months, University of Utah researchers showed it is possible for an atomic force microscope to make images of the wing-shaped paths of minuscule electrons as they orbit atoms.
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