To many big companies, you aren’t just a customer, but are described by multiple “dimensions” of information within a computer database. Now, a University of Utah computer scientist has devised a new method for simpler, faster “data mining,” or extracting and analyzing massive amounts of such data.
Read MoreToday, The University of Utah Board of Trustees approved honorary doctoral degrees for five individuals, which will be presented at this year’s commencement ceremonies on Friday, May 7, 2010, in the Jon M. Huntsman Center. Given to individuals who merit special recognition for service or achievement, the awards will be presented to Sue D. Christensen for Doctor of Humane Letters, E. Gordon Gee for Doctor of Laws, Shane Robison for Doctor of Engineering, W. Dean Singleton for Doctor of Business and to this year’s commencement speaker, Jon M. Huntsman, Jr. for Doctor of Humane Letters.
Read MoreThe University of Utah will hold its fifth Utah Symposium in Science and Literature during Nov. 5-7. It will feature a poet, a composer and a mathematician discussing how their thinking is influenced by the different media they use to express their imaginations.
Read MoreUtah and Texas researchers have learned how quiet sounds are magnified by bundles of tiny, hair-like tubes atop “hair cells” in the ear: when the tubes dance back and forth, they act as “flexoelectric motors” that amplify sound mechanically.
Read MoreSandcastle worms live in intertidal surf, building sturdy tube-shaped homes from bits of sand and shell and their own natural glue. University of Utah bioengineers have made a synthetic version of this seaworthy superglue, and hope it will be used within several years to repair shattered bones in knees, other joints and the face.
Read MoreUntil 1992, when California’s magnitude-7.3 Landers earthquake set off small jolts as far away as Yellowstone National Park, scientists did not believe large earthquakes sparked smaller tremors at distant locations. Now, a definitive study shows large earthquakes routinely trigger smaller jolts worldwide, including on the opposite side of the planet and in areas not prone to quakes.
Read MoreThe University of Utah College of Science will host Sir Arnold W. Wolfendale, 14th Astronomer Royal of Great Britain, when he visits Salt Lake City March 3-7 to present public lectures and visit a local high school.
Read MoreThe University of Utah is launching a new five-year, $2 million effort to recruit and retain more engineering students from high schools and community colleges, expanding on the success already created by the Utah Engineering Initiative.
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Lecturer: Lucy Shapiro, professor of developmental biology, Stanford University
Date: Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Place: Aline Wilmot Skaggs Biology Building Auditorium, University of Utah
Antibiotics, widely used since the 1950s, now are often ineffective because bacteria have many ways of acquiring and sharing resistance to the medications. Development of new antibiotics cannot keep pace in this biological arms race. “Furthermore, there is an increase in prevalent infectious diseases around the world due to overpopulation, globalization and urbanization, says Lucy Shapiro, professor of developmental biology at Stanford University. “This results in a lethal combination of emerging diseases and loss of effective antibiotics. We are rapidly reaching a critical stage.”
Robots will rescue flood-stranded eggs, machines will play Frisbee golf and students will display science projects as the University of Utah Department of Mechanical Engineering holds its Fifth Annual Undergraduate Research Day on Thursday, Dec. 7.
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