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U’s Middle East Center Presents Lectures on U.S. Public Diplomacy in the Middle East

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The Middle East Center (MEC) at the University of Utah, one of 15 national resource centers in the U.S. devoted to the academic study of the Middle East, will sponsor a series of six public lectures titled “U.S. Public Diplomacy in the Middle East.” The presentations are part of the MEC’s continuing mission to increase understanding of Middle East history, culture, religions, literature, politics and contemporary dynamics. Each free lecture, followed by a question-and-answer discussion, will be held from 3 until 4:30 p.m., in the Dumke Auditorium in the Museum of Fine Arts, located south of the David Eccles School of Business.

March 25, 2011

Dramatizing Their Own Stories Prepares Preschoolers to Read

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Business & Society

Playing is children’s work. That’s why the University of Utah’s Child and Family Development Center (CFDC)-a combined parent co-op preschool and teacher training site for early childhood majors and educators-supports reading readiness through play. The young students in the CFDC’s preschool invent, dictate, then dramatize their own narratives.

March 25, 2011

University of Utah Scientists Find Zebrafish May Hold Key to Understanding Human Nerve Cell Development

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Health & Medicine

Traditionally viewed as supporting actors, cells known as glia may be essential for the normal development of nerve cells responsible for hearing and balance, according to new University of Utah research. The study is reported in the January 6, 2005 issue of Neuron and is co-authored by scientists at the University of Washington.

March 25, 2011

Humanitarian Teaching Mission Result of Continuing Partnership Between U of U and African Medical Schools

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Health & Medicine

When a team of University of Utah physicians leave Africa 18 days from now, they plan to leave more behind than just the medical supplies and textbooks brought from Salt Lake City. The Utah doctors hope sharing their experience and knowledge will benefit the next generation of African health-care providers.

March 25, 2011

University of Utah Sponsors 21st Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration

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The University of Utah’s 21st Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. (MLK) Celebration, “The Challenge for a Multiracial Democracy in America,” Jan. 12-17, will feature Carlos Muñoz, Jr. as the keynote speaker. Muñoz is an internationally recognized expert on ethnic and racial politics, multiculturalism, immigration and affirmative action. All MLK events are free and open to the public. (See below for a calendar of events.)

March 25, 2011

University Neighborhood Partners (UNP) Broadens Scope with $1.6 Million

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Arts & Humanities

University Neighborhood Partners (UNP), a U of U program that brings University and west side groups and individuals together, has been awarded a $400,000 Community Outreach Partnership Center (COPC) grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

March 25, 2011

$6.7 Million for Bionic War on Disabilities

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Science & Technology

University 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.

March 25, 2011

New Painkiller Was Born in Utah

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Campus Life

The natural form of Prialt – a new drug for severe pain approved this week by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration – was discovered at the University of Utah in 1979 by an incoming freshman studying toxins produced by cone snails.

March 25, 2011

University of Utah Center on Aging Gets New Name as Its Program Expands

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in five people will be 65 or older by 2030. The University of Utah is gearing up for the inevitable graying of America through a comprehensive, multidisciplinary academic and resource program at its Center on Aging.

March 25, 2011