Finalists vie for historic $1.5M Wilkes Climate Prize
A bean to revolutionize agriculture? Pepto for cows? Ocean waves on the power grid? Smart window coating? Trees that save farmers and the rainforest? Winner announced on Sept. 22.
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Remoteness didn’t protect Amazonian Tsimané from COVID-19
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Direct medical intervention is necessary to reduce infection in the small-scale, remote Indigenous communities of the Tsimané in the Bolivian Amazon during global pandemics.
Read MoreRemembering U alum, computer graphics pioneer and philanthropist John Warnock
“He was a visionary technologist, pioneer and a true luminary of our times.”
Read MoreAncient volcanism drove global warming that marked the end of the Paleocene
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New study shows hydrothermal vents released vast amounts of methane 56 million years, helping disrupt the climate and spur an evolutionary burst that led to the rise of mammals.
Read MoreFlying high at the Spaceport America Cup
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Kian Arian Ben-Jacob’s passion for aeronautics lifts his work to new heights at the world’s largest intercollegiate rocket engineering competition for student rocketeers.
Read MoreU philosopher’s new book challenges the hype surrounding personalized medicine
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James Tabery offers a scathing critique of the “revolution” in health care, arguing it has added to spiraling health care costs while failing to deliver on many of its promises.
Read MoreU center works with teachers to design science education tools
The Genetic Science Learning Center designs new science curricula with the help of front-line teachers and U researchers
Read MoreFall 2023 Instructional Guidelines on generative AI
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The Martha Bradley Evans Center for Teaching Excellence has gathered resources for U of U instructors to use in considering how AI may influence their teaching practices.
Read MoreMaking machine learning accessible to all
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UteAnalytics allows a client to clean their data and conduct exploratory data analysis in various ways.
Read MoreWilkes Center hosts climate change panel between Sister City leaders
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Mayors Erin Mendenhall and Yoshinao Gaun shared challenges and successes they are experiencing as they work to address climate policy in their communites.
Read MoreGene variant may help explain why Black individuals are prone to severe strokes
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Black Americans have a higher risk of stroke than other ethnic groups and a higher rate of death and disability after a stroke.
Read MoreGravitational waves thrum through the cosmos
Tanmoy Laskar talks with @theU about an exciting announcement—gravitational waves are thrumming throughout the universe, distorting the fabric of space and time.
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