My adventures in the ribosome
Nobel Laureate Venkatraman “Venki” Ramakrishnan returns to the U to share his role in the race to uncover the ribosome structure at the Frontiers of Science lecture series on Sept. 26.
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Wasatch Thunder
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The University of Utah, FBI and DOE hosted an all-hands-on-deck rehearsal should a terrorist attempt to steal one of the U’s radioactive materials.
Read MoreFrom a sci-fi dream to real-world impact
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Learn about the advances in brain-computer-interface technology at the Gould Lecture Series.
Read MoreGeoscience and football meet at Rice-Eccles Stadium
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U seismologists shared seismic data from the Utah-Florida game in real time on Twitter.
Read MoreFinalists 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.
Read MoreRemoteness 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.
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