Robots designed and built by high school students will shoot baskets this Thursday through Saturday at Utah’s Maverik Center during a competition expected to draw more than 1,100 teenagers from Utah and eight other states.
Read MoreUniversity of Utah engineers designed a new kind of video game controller that not only vibrates like existing devices, but pulls and stretches the thumb tips in different directions to simulate the tug of a fishing line, the recoil of a gun or the feeling of ocean waves.
Read MoreEvery student that graduates in the University of Utah’s Entertainment Arts and Engineering Program (EAE) does so with a published video game to their credit. That is just one of the criteria that helped put the U near the top of the Princeton Review’s ranking, only behind USC and MIT.
Read MoreUniversity of Utah mathematicians developed a set of calculus equations to make it easier for doctors to save Tylenol overdose patients by quickly estimating how much painkiller they took, when they consumed it and whether they will require a liver transplant to survive.
Read MoreWhat: Community Kick-off and Star Party Where: Salt Lake Center for Science Education 1400 W. Goodwin Ave. When: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 February 23, 2012—How do we build the next generation of scientists? That’s a question the Honors College at the University of Utah hopes to answer as it launches an innovative program with […]
Read MoreClimate change spells trouble for many tropical birds – especially those living in mountains, coastal forests and relatively small areas – and the damage will be compounded by other threats like habitat loss, disease and competition among species.
Read MoreA student entrepreneurial team at the University of Utah believes it has come up with a winning business plan for a virtual ID badge that operates off of any mobile device. The team, calling itself EMRID Technologies, developed a product that could be used in place of other common electronic ID badges used by hospitals, defense companies or other firms where securing data is of the utmost importance.
Read MoreThe famed “corpse flower” plant – known for its giant size, rotten-meat odor and phallic shape – has a new, smaller relative: A University of Utah botanist discovered a new species of Amorphophallus that is one-fourth as tall but just as stinky.
Read MoreUniversity of Utah biologists found new evidence why mice, people and other vertebrate animals carry thousands of varieties of genes to make immune-system proteins named MHCs – even though some of those genes make us susceptible to infections and to autoimmune diseases.
Read MoreWhat do LEGOs, robots and food safety experts have in common? They all met at the second annual Utah’s FIRST LEGO League (FLL) Championship at the University of Utah on Saturday, Jan. 28. The championship followed nine new qualifying tournaments that drew 1,500 kids from St. George to Logan and everywhere in between. Each event allowed middle school students, ages 9-14, to learn about science, technology and team-building with the hands-on experience of LEGOs. The program has seen substantial growth since it launched in Utah last year. Since then, the event has grown from 60 teams to 150 entered this year.
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