California’s rich diversity of Native American ethnic-and-language groups took shape during the past 12,000 years as migrating tribes settled first on the lush Pacific coast and then in progressively drier, less-vegetated habitats, says a new University of Utah study.
Read MoreThe iSTAR project, a unique effort at the University of Utah that teaches kids on the autism spectrum how to use computer software to help them develop professional and social skills, received a $50,000 donation from the Utah Autism Foundation to develop and expand the initiative.
Read MoreAfter months of collaboration between the University Marketing and Communications Office and University Information Technology, the University of Utah launched a redesigned website, www.utah.edu, just in time for the 2013-14 academic year.
Read MoreThe University of Utah introduces a new course for fall 2013 focusing on the unique literary qualities of the Book of Mormon. For the first time, the Book of Mormon will be analyzed for a full semester in an academic context.
Read MoreUniversity of Utah’s Board of Trustees approved changes today to a policy that enhances safety for pedestrians across campus. The changes aim to make sidewalks safer by increasing fines and other consequences for safety violations, such as speeding or not yielding to pedestrians.
Read MoreUsing an unexpected combination of Native American myth and Tim Burton-style artwork, students at the University of Utah have created the first video game in the Shoshone language.
Read MoreWhen mice ate a diet of 25 percent extra sugar – the mouse equivalent of a healthy human diet plus three cans of soda daily – females died at twice the normal rate and males were a quarter less likely to hold territory and reproduce, according to a toxicity test developed at the University of Utah.
Read MoreThe University of Utah community extends condolences to the family, friends and caregivers of English Professor Brooke Hopkins, who passed away Wednesday, some four-and-a-half years after he was paralyzed in a bicycling accident.
Read MoreResearchers at the Bureau of Economic and Business Research at the University of Utah’s David Eccles School of Business analyzed data associated with the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act, or HMDA, and found wide racial disparities when it comes to mortgage applications and outcomes in Salt Lake County and Salt Lake City.
Read MoreJuly 30, 2013 — Not surprisingly, 21 middle-school kids spent five days at camp this summer. But this was no ordinary week – it was video game camp at the University of Utah with classes led by masters’ students from the U’s Entertainment Arts and Engineering program, the #1 ranked game design school in the […]
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