As scientists celebrate 2009 as the bicentennial of Charles Darwin’s birth, experts in anthropology, biology, psychology and other fields will gather at the University of Utah Feb. 25-27 to debate how evolution has shaped human aggression and violence, from war to domestic abuse and homicide.
Read MoreOn March 5, Peter Schuck, a renowned immigration law specialist and professor at Yale Law School, will share his expertise with the public at the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law’s periodic Social Summit. The event will be held from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. at Squatters Restaurant, 147 W. 300 South in Salt Lake City. Cost is $10 per person.
Read MoreThe Hinckley Institute of Politics and S.J. Quinney College of Law announce that Ralph Nader will speak Friday, April 27 at 11:30 a.m. in the Hinckley Caucus Room located in Orson Spencer Hall room 255 on the University of Utah campus. Nader’s speech, “Building Democracy: Challenging Corporate Power,” is free and open to the public.
Read MoreLaughlin McDonald, the director of the Voting Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in Atlanta, has represented minorities in numerous discrimination cases and argued cases before the United States Supreme Court. He has testified repeatedly before Congress and written for scholarly and popular publications on civil liberties issues.
Read More“‘Peoples Distinct from Others’: The Making of Modern Indian Law” will be the topic of the 40th annual William H. Leary Lecture at the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law Thursday, Nov. 3.
Read MoreWhile the November 2 election will determine who will occupy the White House for the next four years, it may also make another determination as well: namely, whether Americans will embrace the use of electronic voting devices.
Read MoreMany graduate level programs at the University of Utah moved up in the new issue of U.S. News & World Report’s 2011 edition of “America’s Best Graduate Schools.”
Read More“What is hope? Is it a thought? Is it a feeling? How do we know when it’s there and how do we know when it’s not?” asks David Rudd, dean of the College of Social and Behavioral Science and professor of psychology. “Suicide is more about the absence of hope then the presence of hopelessness.”
Read MoreBuilding on its reputation for top environmental and criminal law scholarship, the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law will examine environmental crimes and how to discourage them.
Read MoreThe search for solutions to climate change caused by man-made emissions is the focus of this year’s Stegner Symposium. Bill McKibben, the noted writer, educator, and environmentalist, will present the keynote address, “Building the Climate Movement-Just in Time.” Author of the 1989 book The End of Nature, the first book on climate change for a general audience, McKibben is the author of several additional works and helped found Stepitup07.org, the first large grassroots activist movement to address climate change.
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