U student Madelyn Stafford, who is visually impaired, has teamed up with UMFA to make their website, museum tours, including their audio and braille, accessible to all.
A team of transdisciplinary U students created a new, portable, hand-held treatment device to help prevent cervical cancer in the developing world where doctors and equipment are scarce.
The Ivory Prize awarded to a student whose mission to give back has lead to connecting dogs with veterans to help heal the wounds of PTSD through the nonprofit organization Labs For Liberty.
Commencement will be held on Thursday, May 5, 2016, at 6:30 p.m. at the Jon M. Huntsman Center. In the weeks leading up to the ceremony, we’ll profile graduates from across the university.
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Through the work of Academic Senate committees, the faculty have put forth a resolution regarding climate change. The resolutions will be debated and voted on Monday, May 2, 3 p.m. In the HSEB, room 1730.
Law professor Robin Craig spent part of the semester as a visiting professor at the University of Tasmania School of Law in Hobart, teaching comparative water law, research resilience and climate change adaptation issues.
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