Category: Latest Stories
An emissions tale of two cities: SLC vs. LA
Research shows carbon monoxide emissions on Salt Lake City freeways worsened while they went down in Southern California.
Read MoreThe future of telescope lenses is flat
Categories: Impact Initiatives, Innovate Initiatives, Latest Stories, Research, Science & Technology
U engineers create first flat telescope lens that can capture color while detecting light from faraway stars.
Read MoreMost powerful gamma ray observatory gets green light
Categories: Faculty/Staff, Innovate Initiatives, Inspire Initiatives, Latest Stories, Research, Science & Technology, Students
The Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory was designated a European Research Infrastructure Consortium, accelerating its mission to discover gamma ray origins.
Read MoreStephen Chu’s random walk in science
Categories: Campus Life, Community, Events, Faculty/Staff, Impact Initiatives, Innovate Initiatives, Latest Stories, Safety, Science & Technology
Nobel laureate and former Secretary of Energy Stephen Chu enraptured the Frontiers of Science audience with stories of his life, including the Deepwater Horizon crisis.
Read More5 books to celebrate Women’s History Month
Check out five books (with some bonuses) curated for readers to recognize, appreciate and honor women and the roles they played in history, and continue to play today.
Read MorePiloting the way for females in flight
In 1943, Alberta Hunt Nicholson, a resident of Salt Lake City, joined the Women’s Airforce Service Project (WASP), aiding in the war effort.
Read MoreFacilities & Administrative Distribution and Usage
Categories: Faculty/Staff, Health & Medicine, Impact Initiatives, Latest Stories, Research, Science & Technology
Facilities and Administrative (F&A) rates are the mechanisms used to reimburse the University for the infrastructure costs (i.e. F&A costs associated with sponsored research and other sponsored agreements) related to research.
Read MoreGene variant could protect against rare genetic seizure disorder, fruit fly research finds
One in 10 Americans lives with a rare disease, which often lack effective treatments.
Read MorePeter Trapa named vice provost and senior dean of the Colleges and Schools of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Categories: Faculty/Staff, Feature (Utah.edu), Hires & Promotions, Latest Stories, News Releases, President, SVPAA
This newly created position provides strategic advancement and management of the units forming the U’s cornerstone of enrollment.
Read MoreEarly study shows promise for retinal-surgery robot invented at the University of Utah
Categories: Health & Medicine, Impact Initiatives, Innovate Initiatives, Latest Stories, Research, Science & Technology
Experimental robotic technology would enable sight-saving procedures on one of the most delicate tissues in the human body.
Read More‘Vast discovery’ of black holes in dwarf galaxies
Categories: Faculty/Staff, Innovate Initiatives, Latest Stories, News Releases, Research, Science & Technology
New U-led research from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument reveals 300 new intermediate-mass black holes and 2,500 dwarf galaxies with active black holes, tripling the existing census for both.
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