October is SafeU Month @theU

In 1990, the volleyball program had won one match the season before; the program has now made it to the NCAA Tournament second round 11 times and the Sweet 16 three times.

These students were two of around 40 individuals selected nationwide from pharmacy schools across the United States to receive this accolade.

Students currently enrolled or graduated from the U within the last five years are eligible to be nominated for the Ivory Prize for Excellence in Student Leadership.

Lyuba Basin, rare books curator, has been selected to represent the U in the Western Association of Graduate Schools ProQuest competition.

The criteria for thebestschools.org includes the reputation of the school and its faculty, its dedication to a broad liberal arts education, its accreditation, and its overall academic caliber compared to other institutions of the same type within the same state.

Deininger was recognized for his outstanding lifetime contributions to leukemia research.

Mike L. Good, CEO and senior vice president for University of Utah Health and dean of the School of Medicine, has been elected to a three-year term on the Board of Directors of the Association of Academic Health Centers.

Tara Deans, a U biomedical engineering assistant professor, received the National Institutes of Health Director’s New Innovator Award and a $1.5 million grant to develop a method that could help stop the spread of cancer.

The U’s School of Computing celebrates the 50th anniversary of its contribution to the launch of the internet.

University Hospital Area E (Acute Care) is officially open, and the first patients are getting to experience this important piece of University of Utah Health’s Campus Transformation.