Categories
UMC Links

Category: Campus Life

Wendover Officials Will Convene at Roundtable Meeting to Discuss the Process and Timeline for Annexation

Categories:

The issue of annexing Wendover City, Utah, into West Wendover, Nev., is back at the forefront of discussion for officials of both cities and states. The proposal to merge both cities has faced decades of interest, numerous studies and widespread attention. Now, for the first time, all of the stakeholders involved will convene at a roundtable meeting on Nov. 4, in West Wendover, Nev., to resolve the issues involved with the proposed annexation.

Read More
March 25, 2011

Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge To Speak at U of U Commencement

Categories:

Today the University of Utah announced that Tom Ridge, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, will deliver this year’s commencement address on Friday, May 7, 2004, in the Jon M. Huntsman Center. He will be presented with an honorary Doctorate of Laws. Earlier this month it was announced that former University President Bernie Machen would give the commencement address. Several months ago, Machen, president of the U from 1998 through the end of 2003, invited Ridge to be the U’s commencement speaker. The Secretary’s office could not confirm his schedule at that time. Machen, who will be in attendance at commencement to accept an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters, agreed to give the address if Ridge was unavailable. Ridge’s office confirmed his participation today.

Read More
March 25, 2011

How Lice and Bird Feathers Stick Together

Categories:

University of Utah biologists twirled louse-infested bird feathers on an electric fan and flew pigeons and doves like kites on strings in a study that found small lice stick to small birds and big lice prefer big birds.

Read More
March 25, 2011

Orientation For International Students Eases Scholars Into Life In The U.S.

Categories:

Elena Cheryauka vividly recalls the culture shock she experienced when she arrived in Salt Lake City from Siberia four years ago. She spoke only Russian and German. By joining the University International Center’s Cross-Culture Club she met other women in situations similar to her own. They socialized and, together, were able to overcome many of the same challenges.

Read More
March 25, 2011

U of U to Review Its Long Range Development Plan

Categories:

The University of Utah has retained the services of Hanbury Evans Wright & Vlattas and ajc architects to provide campus land-planning services for the five-year update of its 1997 Long Range Development Plan (LRDP). Opportunities for public comment and participation are an important part of the process. The LRDP is a broad campus land-use and transportation plan projected over a 20-year planning horizon. Guidelines are established which maintain and enhance the campus environment while supporting the University’s mission of education, research, and service.

Read More
March 25, 2011

Silicon Spin Transistors Heat Up

Categories:

University of Utah researchers built “spintronic” transistors and used them to align the magnetic “spins” of electrons for a record period of time in silicon chips at room temperature. The study is a step toward computers, phones and other spintronic devices that are faster and use less energy than their electronic counterparts.

Read More
March 15, 2011

University of Utah Students to Raise Money for Cancer Research

Categories:

When you look at it one way, Louise Butler has little to gain from organizing a fund-raising effort for cancer research at the University of Utah. In fact, she could refuse to utter the word “cancer” again for her entire life. She could say that she lost her dad to cancer and she doesn’t owe anyone anything. Who would blame her?

Read More
March 9, 2011