Peter J. Stang of Salt Lake City will be honored March 25 by the world’s largest scientific society for discovering and studying new kinds of molecules, knowledge the petroleum industry can use to turn crude oil into useful products more efficiently.
Read MoreChuck Williamson, chairman and chief executive officer of Unocal, will speak about drilling deep for oil at 4 p.m. Thurs. March 6 at the University of Utah.
Read MoreThree University of Utah professors have been elected to the National Academy of Engineering. The honors bring to at least 25 the number of present or former U faculty members elected to one of the prestigious National Academies.
Read MoreHundreds of students, faculty and staff turned out for the unveiling of the University of Utah’s plan to make its operations more environmentally sustainable and to become carbon neutral by 2050. The university today released its Energy and Environmental Stewardship Initiative: 2010 Climate Action Plan (EESI-CAP) with a kick-off event in the ballroom of the Olpin Student Union.
Read MoreFifteen University of Utah students who completed 400 hours of community service each will be honored at the U’s commencement ceremonies on Friday, May 7, at 9 a.m. in the Jon M. Huntsman Center on the University of Utah campus.
Read MoreGeorge Schaller, one of the world’s most famous conservation biologists, will discuss his research and efforts to protect some of the world’s most beautiful species in a reading and book signing at the Salt Lake City Public Library main auditorium on Feb. 23 at 7:00 p.m. The event, which is sponsored by the Wallace Stegner Center for Land, Resources and the Environment at the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law, is free and open to the public. No pre-registration is required.
Read MoreUniversity of Utah scientists developed a new kind of “molecular condom” to protect women from AIDS in Africa and other impoverished areas. Before sex, women would insert a vaginal gel that turns semisolid in the presence of semen, trapping AIDS virus particles in a microscopic mesh so they can’t infect vaginal cells.
Read MoreAbout 75 junior and cadette-level Girl Scouts will participate in activities designed to interest them in engineering as a possible career on Thursday evening, Feb. 26 at the University of Utah.
Read MoreAlan Weisman, author of the provocative best seller, The World Without Us, will speak on campus at the University of Utah Tuesday, September 30, 2008 at 7:00 p.m.
Read MoreUtah’s environment will be the beneficiary of two major university events this coming Earth Day. University of Utah President Michael K. Young will cut the ribbon on the campus’s new cogeneration heat and electricity system and, just minutes later, he will sign the American College & University Presidents Climate Commitment. The dual ceremony will be held outside the university’s High Temperature Water Plant on Tues., April 22 beginning at 11:00 a.m.
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