Since 1971, more than 500 U alumni have received the prestigious Merit of Honor Award from the Emeritus Alumni Board of the University of Utah Alumni Association. Now in its 42nd year, this recognition is for alumni who attended the university 40 or more years ago (or who have reached ...
University of Utah Alumni Association Celebrates 2013 Merit of Honor Award Recipients
Posted On Saturday, November 16, 2013 By USA Education News. Under UTAH Tags: Dixie S. Huefner, Elaine S. Marshall, Jess A. Agraz, John C. Nelson, University of Utah, Virginia Albo
Since 1971, more than 500 U alumni have received the prestigious Merit of Honor Award from the Emeritus Alumni Board of the University of Utah Alumni Association. Now in its 42nd year, this recognition is for alumni who attended the university 40 or more years ago (or who have reached ...
Undergraduates in any major can now learn about startup formation and strategy
Posted On Friday, November 8, 2013 By USA Education News. Under UTAH Tags: Bill Schulze, David Eccles School of Business, Entrepreneurial Finance, Entrepreneurial Marketing, Entrepreneurship and Society, University of Utah’s
More and more students want to be their own boss, and the University of Utah’s David Eccles School of Business is answering that demand with a new Interdisciplinary Certificate in Entrepreneurship for undergraduate students. Available to every student, regardless of their major, the certificate adds to the business school’s already ...
War Scholar to Explore Role of Communication in National Security
Posted On Thursday, October 17, 2013 By USA Education News. Under UTAH Tags: B. Aubrey Fisher Memorial Lecture, Bryan Taylor, Kent Ono, Language and Communication Building, nuclear weapons
Renowned communication scholar Bryan Taylor will present “War Voice: Exploring Communication’s Intrinsic Resources for the Study of Security,” Thursday, Oct. 24, 7:30 p.m. in Room 1110 of the Language and Communication Building.
As keynote speaker for the 27th annual B. Aubrey Fisher Memorial Lecture, sponsored by the University of Utah’s Department ...
Amsterdam-Based Hexnut to improvise on photos during Sept. 25 BYU concert
Posted On Sunday, September 15, 2013 By USA Education News. Under UTAH Tags: Anthony Fiumara, Brigham Young University, BYU Museum of Art exhibit, David Dramm, Edward Burtynsky, Jan-Bas Bollen, Mayke Nas, Ned McGowan
Hexnut will present “Wrench – A Choreography Between Music and Image” Wednesday, Sept. 25 at 7:30 p.m. in the de Jong Concert Hall at Brigham Young University.
A pre-concert reception will feature an in-gallery discussion of works from “Industrial Sublime: Photographs by Edward Burtynsky,” a BYU Museum of Art exhibit. The ...
Best-Selling Author and Human Rights Activist Speaks at the U
Posted On Sunday, September 8, 2013 By USA Education News. Under UTAH Tags: E. Presidents Circle, John Prendergast, Salt Lake Film Society, Tanner Center, Tanner Humanities Center
Author and human rights activist John Prendergast will be the keynote speaker at the annual World Leaders Lecture Forum, sponsored by the University of Utah’s Tanner Humanities Center. Titled “A Changing Africa,” Prendergast’s lecture will be held Wednesday, Sept. 11, 11 a.m., in Libby Gardner Hall, 1375 E. Presidents Circle. ...
Groundbreaking Event: The Ray & Tye Noorda Oral Health Education Building
Posted On Saturday, August 31, 2013 By USA Education News. Under UTAH Tags: Dentistry, Oral Health Education, Ray & Tye Noorda, Rena N. D’Souza, Utah University
(SALT LAKE CITY)—The University of Utah on Friday broke ground on the $36.4 million Ray and Tye Noorda Oral Health Education Building, which when completed in December 2014 will house the University’s newly founded School of Dentistry.
Being constructed with $30 million in donations from Ray and Tye Noorda and their ...
Sugar is Toxic to Mice in ‘Safe’ Doses
Posted On Friday, August 16, 2013 By USA Education News. Under UTAH Tags: Americans Eat, James Ruff, National Research Council, Nature Communications, University of Utah, Wayne Potts
When 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 ...
Preliminary Analysis of Salt Lake County Mortgage Data Shows Disparities in Lending Practices
Posted On Thursday, August 1, 2013 By USA Education News. Under UTAH Tags: David Eccles School of Business, Salt Lake County, University of Utah’s, Utah Economic and Business Review
Researchers 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 ...
Dance Faculty Member Curt Holman to Present BYU Devotional Address July 30
Posted On Thursday, July 18, 2013 By USA Education News. Under UTAH Tags: Brigham Young University, BYU Broadcasting channels, Curt Holman, de Jong Concert Hall, Raising your Ebenezer
Curt Holman, an associate chair of the Department of Dance at Brigham Young University, will give an address titled “Raising your Ebenezer – A Monument to Remember” at the campus devotional Tuesday, July 30, at 11:05 a.m. in the de Jong Concert Hall.
The devotional will be broadcast live on the ...
Aim High, And Try Again And Again, Tyler Jarvis Counsels Devotional Audience
Posted On Thursday, July 11, 2013 By USA Education News. Under UTAH Tags: counsels devotional audience, Eliot Butler, Tyler Jarvis
Mathematics professor Tyler Jarvis told students and faculty at Tuesday’s campus devotional to aim high and work towards improving rather than being paralyzed by fear of failure.
Jarvis explained the Traveling Salesman Problem, a mathematical problem so complex that it’s near impossible to find a solution. The challenge is to map ...
