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University of Utah Career Services is changing its name to better reflect its mission to prepare students for their future careers and foster career readiness through early engagement with the center. It will be called the Career and Professional Development Center. The center will still provide the same helpful career coaching resources to students, and all of the essential functions it has always provided will remain the same.

• General career coaching for students to reflect on their strengths, interests, skills and experiences
• Exploration of career options and internships
• Assisting students in their career planning process
• Providing events to connect with employers and alumni

Find out more at careers.utah.edu.

Harshkumar Patel, a doctoral student in chemistry from the Matthew Sigman group has been chosen as finalist of the 2017 Reaxys Ph.D. Prize. Since its launch in 2010, the Reaxys Ph.D. Prize has aimed to recognize chemistry doctoral students and recent graduates, fostering creativity in groundbreaking chemistry by identifying tomorrow’s chemistry leaders and empowering them to magnify the impact of their work.

Among nearly 550 applicants from around the globe, Patel was selected due to the remarkable originality, innovation, relevance and methodological rigor of his paper “Enantioselective Palladium-Catalyzed Alkenylation of Trisubstituted Alkenols To Form Allylic Quaternary Centers.” He is invited to present his work at the Prize Symposium on Oct. 19-20 in Shanghai, where the three winners of this year’s prize will be selected.

For more details on the Reaxys Ph.D. Prize and the 45 finalists, click here.

The Office of the Registrar will be implementing CourseLeaf Section Scheduler (CLSS), a new scheduling software which will replace the previously paper-based class scheduling process. The new software will place many tools in the hands of college and department administrators, which will help in the goal of creating optimal class schedules for our students.

CLSS goes live on July 12 and the upcoming Spring 2018 Class Schedule will be created using this new technology. 

To learn more about CLSS, click here.