EARN THREE OR FOUR GENERAL EDUCATION CREDITS IN AN INTENSIVE WEEK OF CLASS
If you like the sound of earning three or four general education credits in a week, you might be interested in one of the fall break courses that run Oct. 12-16 at the Murray campus. Additional course work is required outside of class time.
Registration for the following classes requires a permission code, which can be found here.
– Scientific Foundations of Human Nutrition and Health, applied science (AS), three credits
– World Religions, international requirement and humanities exploration (IR and HF), three credits
– Introduction to Sociology, social/behavioral science exploration (BF), four credits
SUMMER TERM GRADES AVAILABLE
Tuesday, Aug. 18
For more information, please contact the Registrar’s Office at www.registrar.utah.edu, registrar@utah.edu, or 801-581-5808.
CIBC FUNDING
The U’s Center for Integrative Biomedical Computing just landed a $6.1 million grant renewal from the National Institutes of Health. The center produces open-source software for image-based modeling, simulation and visualization of biomedical data. Tens of thousands of scientists have downloaded the center’s software tools and data sets, and more than 200 papers published by scientists outside the center reference its software or computing infrastructure.
The NIH grant has a five year term. The principle investigators are bioengineering professor Rob MacLeod, computer science professor Ross Whitaker, and computer science professor Christopher Johnson, who directs the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute.
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
The J. Willard Marriott Library has received a small grant to support the use of open textbooks and seeks qualified reviewers. The textbooks to be reviewed are available from the Open Textbook Library.
Subject areas that need reviews include general chemistry, human anatomy and physiology, principles of biology, survey of accounting and microeconomics. Guidelines for writing reviews are available here.
Interested reviewers can contact associate librarian Allyson Mower, allyson.mower@utah.edu; 801-585-5458, for more information. Reviews will be due on Friday, Sept. 11 and reviewers will receive compensation.