Marilyn Luptak has been selected to moderate a panel on The New Expectations for Health Care during a White House Briefing next Wednesday. Hosted by the Council on Social Work Education, the White House Briefing will concentrate on “Addressing the Social Determinants of Health in a New Era: The Role of Social Work Education.”
Read MoreThe David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah has ranked among the top 25 schools for entrepreneurship for the third year in the annual survey by the Princeton Review released today. The graduate program at the David Eccles School of Business ranked 23 among more than 2,000 institutions across the country.
Read MoreThe Legislative Branch of the Associated Students of the University of Utah has allocated $12,000 to provide free flu vaccinations to 800 students. The majority of the vaccinations will be given to students at the Wellness Fair, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. at the Field House. The remaining shots will be provided at the Center for Student Wellness to those who don’t have insurance.
Read MoreWhen a 1985 car accident left him paralyzed from the neck down, the University of Utah alumnus would not let this twist of fate hold him back. After returning to work at his family’s construction and real estate development business a year later, he went on to establish a thriving casino enterprise, Ameristar Casinos Inc., and eventually set up the Craig H. Neilsen Foundation, dedicated to helping people with an SCI lead active, high quality lives and to promoting research to find a cure for paralysis.
Read MoreThe University of Utah’s S.J. Quinney College of Law celebrates its 100th birthday Sept. 20 with a symposium at the law school followed by an evening gala at the Natural History Museum of Utah.
Read MoreHave you ever wondered what you should do with family treasures stashed in your attic, basement or that storage closet that never gets cleaned out? The Pioneers in Your Attic program is the answer, as it provides free digitization of family materials.
Read MoreBy inserting platinum atoms into an organic semiconductor, University of Utah physicists were able to “tune” the plastic-like polymer to emit light of different colors – a step toward more efficient, less expensive and truly white organic LEDs for light bulbs of the future.
Read MoreIn the latest issue of U.S. News & World Report’s “America’s Best Colleges” rankings of undergraduate programs, the University of Utah’s David Eccles School of Business leaped 25 spots to number 47, and the College of Engineering moved up five spots to number 59 in the nation.
Read MoreA new study from the University of Utah’s David Eccles School of Business and Stanford University suggests that in times of recession, worker output increases and employers and firms are able to “do more with less.” Additionally, the study shows that workers’ increased efforts directly correlate with local unemployment rates, and that the greatest increases in productivity come from workers who are less productive pre-recession.
Read MoreUniversity of Utah electrical engineers have developed a network of wireless sensors that can detect a person falling. This monitoring technology could be linked to a service that would call emergency help for the elderly without requiring them to wear monitoring devices.
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