A University of Utah study is shedding light on an important, unsolved physics problem: the relationship between chaos theory–which is based on 300-year-old Newtonian physics–and the modern theory of quantum mechanics.
Read MoreScientists-explorers as well as Arctic residents-will share personal stories of life, research, and adventure in the polar regions during two events sponsored by the Utah Museum of Natural History. Their stories are supported by a 2-3,000 year old ice core, high-definition documentary video, graphics, animation, original artifacts, research tools, and equipment.
Read MoreThe University of Utah has been awarded a software gift valued at $21.2 million from Landmark, a product service line of Halliburton’s Drilling and Evaluation Division. The three-year, renewable donation provides advanced software, including maintenance and support, to students and researchers in the College of Engineering and the College of Mines and Earth Sciences, especially those that focus on studying energy development. The software is used to help find oil and gas resources more efficiently.
Read MorePierre V. Sokolsky, professor and chair of physics at the University of Utah and a notable expert in cosmic ray physics, has been named dean of the College of Science effective July 1, 2007.
Read MoreDedicated to the spirit of exploration and discovery, the John and Marva Warnock Engineering Building is the new academic home for engineering and computer science students at the University of Utah. The building will be officially dedicated during a ribbon cutting ceremony Friday, February 16 at 1:30 p.m. in the atrium of the new building located at 72 S. Central Campus Drive.
Read MoreBaldomero “Toto” Olivera – a University of Utah biologist who seeks new medications from the toxins of poisonous cone snails – won one of medicine’s top honors Monday when he was named as a new member of the Institute of Medicine.
Read MoreJames F. O’Connell, professor and chair of anthropology at the University of Utah, was elected Tuesday as a member of the prestigious National Academy of Sciences.
Read MoreRaw eggs will serve as make-believe bombs when robots built by University of Utah students attempt to transport and safely dispose the “eggsplosives.” Other undergraduates will display their research projects. And junior high school students will build trebuchet-style catapults to hurl toy cougars – the mascot of the University of Utah’s rival, Brigham Young University.
Read MoreA team of eight University of Utah students and 11 students from a Utah science high school will travel to Washington as finalists in a May 16-17 Environmental Protection Agency contest aimed at promoting sustainable resources, including energy.
Read MoreUniversity of Utah researchers have won about $6.7 million in federal grants to develop wireless electrodes that would be implanted to provide blind people with artificial vision and stimulate paralyzed body parts and so disabled people could walk, talk or control a computer with their thoughts.
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