The seventh annual Edison Conference and Innovation Showcase will be held Wednesday May 18 and Thursday May 19 at the University of Utah, with the goal of helping inventors and researchers successfully commercialize their technologies.
Read MoreOn Thursday, Utah lawmakers will be able to see firsthand the importance of undergraduate research coming out of the University of Utah and Utah State University, the state’s two public research institutions.
Read MoreRobots built by third-year mechanical engineering students at the University of Utah will rescue Beanie Babies from a dangerous obstacle course. Junior high school students will catapult stuffed BYU cougars across a large ballroom. Contraptions built by first-year mechanical engineering students will attempt to carry raw eggs in the “Evil EGGnievel Competition.” And university seniors will display their projects.
Read MoreThe annual Utah Environmental Symposium will be held Thursday Nov. 6 through Saturday Nov. 8 at the Wyndham Hotel in Salt Lake City.
Read MoreGraduate level programs at the University of Utah are heading in the right direction, according to the 2012 edition of America’s Best Grad Schools published by U.S. News & World Report.
Read MoreA magnitude-8.1 earthquake and tsunami that killed 192 people last year in Samoa, American Samoa and Tonga actually was a triple whammy: The 8.1 “great earthquake” concealed and triggered two major quakes of magnitude 7.8, seismologists report Thursday in the journal Nature.
Read MoreKnocking genes out of action allows researchers to learn what genes do by seeing what goes wrong without them. University of Utah biologists pioneered the field. Mario Capecchi won a Nobel Prize for developing knockout mice. Kent Golic found a way to cripple fruit fly genes. Now, biologist Erik Jorgensen and colleagues have devised a procedure for knocking out genes in nematode worms.
Read MoreDid the first dinosaurs wander across continents or stay put where they first evolved? The first dinosaurs evolved 230 million years ago when the continents were assembled into one landmass called Pangea. The question of early dinosaur movements remained unclear until the discovery of some exciting new fossils.
Read MoreThis morning, the University of Utah graduated 7,132 students from 76 countries, 50 U.S. states and 28 of Utah’s 29 counties. University President Michael K. Young officiated at the commencement ceremony, held in the Jon M. Huntsman Center.
Read MoreThe University of Utah Office of Sustainability will host the 2009 Focus the U on Climate Change Teach-In February 2 – 6. Events are all free and open to the public and designed to draw attention to the latest scientific understanding of global warming and potential solutions to this urgent challenge. Co-sponsors include the Lowell Bennion Community Service Center student group SEED and the Hinckley Institute of Politics.
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