David Vaughan, president of the European Mineralogical Union and professor of mineralogy and director of the Williamson Research Center for Molecular Environmental Science, University of Manchester, Great Britain, to deliver two lectures at the U Monday April 19.
Read MoreHow does the human mind make sense of itself? What is self? Is it me, or is it my brain? How are emotion and cognition – the process of knowing, of having perception, memory and judgment – tied to our notions of ourselves?
Read MoreImagine a place where you could experience innovations and ideas first-hand from local inventors. On Monday evening, Feb. 28, faculty and students at the University of Utah College of Engineering will exhibit and demonstrate their latest technological innovations in engineering and computer science at the third annual Meet an Inventor Day.
Read MoreThe latest issue of U.S. News & World Report/America’s Best Colleges ranks the University of Utah among the best national universities. The U came in 129th, tying with two other schools.
Read MoreA device to reconnect severed arteries, a rescue robot for trapped miners, a domestic windmill and a human-powered elevator are among senior design projects that will be showcased Tuesday, April 20, during the University of Utah’s 13th annual Mechanical Engineering Design Day.
Read MoreIn celebration of the 150-year anniversary of “On the Origin of Species,” published Nov. 24, 1859, Francis H. Brown – a distinguished professor of geology and geophysics and dean of the College of Mines and Earth Sciences at the University of Utah – will deliver a free public lecture about the precise geological chronology of our earliest human ancestors.
Read MoreUniversity of Utah biologist Baldomero “Toto” Olivera and chemist Dale Poulter were elected Monday to the prestigious National Academy of Sciences.
Read MoreMining is one of Utah’s oldest industries and produces billions of dollars worth of minerals each year. To aid in the safe pursuit of this important enterprise, the University of Utah is pleased to announce the endowment of the Western Mining Presidential Chair in Mine Safety. A formal ceremony announcing the creation of this chair will be held Monday, Feb. 2, 2009, at 2:15 p.m., in the lobby of the Frederick A. Sutton Building at the University of Utah, 115 S. 1460 E., Salt Lake City.
Read MoreA “perfect storm” is brewing as the nation’s electricity demand continues to soar at the same time as power industry professionals are aging and retiring in large numbers.
Read MoreUniversity of Utah engineers took an early step toward building superfast computers that run on far-infrared light instead of electricity: They made the equivalent of wires that carried and bent this form of light, also known as terahertz radiation, which is the last unexploited portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.
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