With the nation’s financial and banking sectors roiling in tumult, the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law will host a special public panel, entitled “Wall Street in Crisis” to address these vital legal and economic issues. The free panel will be presented at 12:15 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 6 in the Sutherland Moot Court Room at the College of Law.
Read MoreLiving in former Yugoslavia, a country torn by ethnic conflict, my family faced the enormous challenge of surviving in a hostile urban war environment. We escaped, first fleeing as refugees to Hungry and then to Germany. With the clothing on our backs and no money in our pockets, my family made an ambitious effort to pursue a better life in the U.S. Having little knowledge of the American culture and no knowledge of the English language we reached for the “American Dream.”
–Marko Mijic, ASUU Government Relations Director, B.S. candidate, University of Utah
The latest issue of U.S. News & World Report/America’s Best Graduate Schools shows that programs at the University of Utah are on the rise. And once again the U has, by far, the most programs recognized of any Utah university appearing in the annual rankings.
Read MoreThe regions near international borders often suffer from unique problems. The air quality along the United States/Mexico border region is an excellent example. To address this issue, a group of University researchers has been selected by the Southwest Consortium for Environmental Research and Policy (SCERP) to search for solutions.
Read MorePresident Michael K. Young and the Board of Trustees of the University of Utah today announced that Kirk Lincoln Jowers has been selected as the fourth director of the University’s Hinckley Institute of Politics. Jowers was a 1992 magna cum laude graduate from the University of Utah who majored in political science, was a Harry S. Truman Scholar and served as a Hinckley Institute intern in Washington, D.C. with former U.S. Representative Jim Hansen. He graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1995 where he was associate editor of the International Law Journal and served as a student advocate in the Legal Services Center.
Read MoreAs part of its ongoing mission to increase understanding of Middle East history, culture, religions, literature, politics and contemporary dynamics, the Middle East Center at the University of Utah will sponsor a series of eight spring lectures titled “Learning from Past Failures: Pathways to Peace in the Middle East.” All presentations, which will be held from 3 until 4:30 p.m., in the Museum of Fine Arts’ Dumke Auditorium, located south of the David Eccles School of Business, are free and open to the public. Each event will include a lecture and a question-and-answer discussion afterwards.
Read MoreThe focus of this year’s Stegner Symposium is the challenge of sustainability and how to create a civilization that is both prosperous and environmentally healthy. The Wallace Stegner Center for Land, Resources and the Environment at the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law will host its 15th Annual Symposium March 12-13, 2010 at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, 138 W. Broadway, in Salt Lake City.
Read MoreSchool is out, summer is on, and many young students will spend it transported through story to other worlds. Yet for many others, summer is merely a pause in their ongoing struggles with literacy.
Read MoreClimate has been implicated by a new study as a major driver of wildfires in the last 2,000 years, but human activities, such as land clearance and fire suppression during the industrial era (since 1750) created large swings in burning, first increasing fires until the late 1800s, and then dramatically reducing burning in the 20th century.
Read MoreThe University of Utah 2007-2008 Middle East Lecture Series continues with a lecture from Amr Hamzaway, senior associate for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
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