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WOMEN’S WEEK: RESILIENCE

This year’s Women’s Week is March 5-9 with the theme “Resilience: We are Powerful Because We Have Survived.”

EMPOWERING WOMEN

Get your tickets as the MUSE Project hosts former chief scientist at NASA and author of “Hidden Figures” for keynote presentation on theme year of empowerment.

GENE EDITING SCIENCE AND ETHICS

Benning Lecture welcomes Jennifer Doudna, one of the developers of CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing, on March 21.

CHURCHILL SCHOLAR

Mathematics student Scott Neville becomes third Churchill Scholar for the U.

Announcements
Academic Senate Committee interest survey | Summer and fall textbook adoption requests due | Bennion Center honored by lawmakers | U professors honored by Ecological Society of America | Chemistry chair receives American Chemical Society Award | Beacons of Excellence Award call for nominations | Fitness classes are now half off | Intramural sports second session registration open
A Healthier U
New tech treatments for epilepsy edge closer to a cure | Splitting the hairs of balding and hair loss | Endlessly adaptable roasted vegetables
The Arts and U
globalFEST tour spotlights two of the most innovative and provocative young Latin bands in the U.S.
Safe & Sound
Chemical spill clean-up procedures

DON’T HESITATE TO MEDITATE

Housing and Residential Education opens an inclusive meditation and prayer space for residents and employees.

SILENCING YOUR INNER HATER

Knatokie Ford, advocate for women in science, technology, engineering and math, shared her journey as the confident “female Steve Urkel” from her childhood, to feeling like a fraud as a grad student at Harvard, to conquering the imposter syndrome.

SAFEGUARDING HERITAGE SITES IN THE MIDDLE EAST

Art conservation scientist Blythe McCarthy previews her upcoming Frontiers of Science lecture.