Groundbreaking ceremonies for the University of Utah’s new John E. and Marva M. Warnock Engineering Building will be held at 10:30 a.m. Friday Oct. 15 at the construction site southeast of the Merrill Engineering Building on Central Campus Drive.
Read MoreUniversity of Utah biologists discovered a gene that allows a plant’s roots to tell the leaves to stop growing, presumably when water is scarce, soil is too compacted or other conditions are bad.
Read MoreA University of Utah study showing how lice evolved with the people they infested reveals that a now-extinct species of early human came into direct contact with our species about 25,000 years ago and spread the parasites to our ancestors.
Read MoreA memorial service for Lee E. Teitelbaum, former dean and Hugh B. Brown Professor of Law at the S.J. Quinney College of Law will be held Friday, Oct. 8. Teitelbaum died September 22.
Read MoreRacial politics in the struggle over same sex marriage will be discussed at the S.J. Quinney College of Law Thursday, October 7.
Read MoreTheresa A. Martinez, University of Utah associate professor of sociology, has been named associate dean of undergraduate studies for outreach, a new position recently created at the U.
Read More“What’s in your backpack?” It’s a question worth asking school children as a way of reminding them that heavy backpacks, combined with a sedentary lifestyle, don’t make for healthy backs, according to experts from the University of Utah College of Health’s Division of Occupational Therapy.
Read MoreAs research on human genes advances, awareness of genetic diseases and the need for highly qualified genetic counselors increase. In anticipation of this demand, the University of Utah School of Medicine is offering the Graduate Program in Genetic Counseling beginning next fall.
Read MoreAfter 12 months and 1,000 hours of strenuous and tedious excavation work performed by 40 staff and volunteers of the University of Utah’s Utah Museum of Natural History and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, a 75-million-year-old dinosaur skeleton will be transported from its resting place in The Blues area of southern Utah’s Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument (GSENM).
Read MoreThe University of Utah is launching a series of monthly lectures dealing with emerging infectious diseases – SARS, new flu strains, hantavirus and others – and our defenses against those diseases and bioterrorism.
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