Using chicken embryos and colorful fluorescent dyes, University of Utah scientists have demonstrated for the first time in a higher animal that it is possible to simultaneously show three genes working within an embryo, body tissue or even a single cell.
Read MoreOn Thursday, March 11, James L. Kugel, recently retired Starr Professor of Hebrew Literature at Harvard University and Professor of Bible at Bar Ilan University in Israel, will present “The God of Old: How the Ancient Israelites Saw God with Their Own Eyes.” The lecture, followed by a reception, will begin at 3:30 p.m. and will be held in Parlor A of the Olpin Union Building, located at 200 Central Campus Drive, on the University of Utah campus. The event is free and open to the public.
Read MoreKim Peek, the mega savant, who inspired the movie “Rain Man”, will be coming to the Utah Museum of Natural History in conjunction with the Memory Exhibit, currently on display from the Exploratorium in San Francisco. Peek will speak on Friday, March 5 at 2:00 pm and again on Saturday, March 6 at 1:00 pm. Regular museum admission applies for both events, $6.00 for adults and $3.50 for kids. U of U students, faculty and staff get in free with a current school I.D.
Read MoreThe “Student Conference on Gender, Diversity, and Identity: An International and Interdisciplinary Women’s Forum” will be held this Friday, March 5, from 9 a.m. until 5:30 p.m. in the University of Utah’s Olpin Union Saltair Room. The event’s keynote speaker will be Michele Moody-Adams, Hutchinson Professor of Ethics and Public Life at Cornell University. The conference will open with remarks by Barbara Snyder, University vice president for Student Affairs. The conference is sponsored by numerous University administrators, colleges, departments and programs on the U campus as well as Utah Valley State College’s Center for Ethics. The conference is free and open to the public.
Read MoreThe University of Utah’s University Neighborhood Partners (UNP), Salt Lake Neighborhood Housing Services (SLNHS) and the Salt Lake City’s Weed and Seed Program are joining forces to create the Westside Leadership Institute, a long-term project designed to support the development of local resident leadership on the West Side of Salt Lake City, which includes the area between 2100 S. north to the Davis County line; and from State Street west to Interstate 215.
Read MoreUniversity of Utah physicists have taken an important step toward a new generation of faster, cheaper computers and electronics by building the first “organic spin valves” – electrical switches that integrate two emerging fields of technology: organic semiconductor electronics and spin electronics, or spintronics.
Read MoreAmazing views of Earth taken from satellites in space will be displayed when the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) present Electronic Theater 2004 at the University of Utah. The high-definition television (HDTV) presentation on a large screen is scheduled for 2 p.m. Monday March 1 in the Marriott Library’s Gould Auditorium. There is no charge.
Read MoreImagine watching a live modern dance performance by artists who touch hands and move in concert-in virtual space, across state lines and across time zones. A two- to three-second time delay-like news interviews from abroad-and the technologies’ digitization gives the art an “other world” effect.
Read MoreIf alien astronomers around a distant star had studied the young Sun four-and-a-half billion years ago, could they have seen signs of a newly-formed Earth orbiting this innocuous yellow star? The answer is yes, according to Scott Kenyon (Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory) and Benjamin Bromley (University of Utah). Moreover, their computer model says that we can use the same signs to locate places where Earth-size planets currently are forming — young worlds that, one day, may host life of their own.
Read MoreThe University of Utah Alumni Association will celebrate Founders Day, which commemorates the founding of the University of Utah in 1850, next Wednesday, Feb. 25. A reception will be held in the Little American Hotel Ballroom at 6:30 p.m., with dinner beginning at 7:15 p.m. The Little America Hotel is located at 500 S. Main Street. Cost for the event is $85 per person or $80 per person for Alumni Association members and their guests. For more information, or to make a reservation, call 801-585-9012.
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