LINDA K. AMOS AWARD NOMINATIONS DEADLINE APPROACHING[bs_row class=”row”]
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[bs_col class=”col-sm-8″]The 2016 Women’s Week Committee, Presidential Commission on the Status of Women and Office for Equity and Diversity request nominations for the 17th annual Linda K. Amos Award for Distinguished Service to Women. This award recognizes an individual staff or faculty member who has selflessly given time and energy to improve the educational and/or working environment for women at the university.

Deadline for nominations is Friday, Jan. 15, 2016, at noon.

Please send nomination materials electronically to: amos-award@utah.edu and use the subject line “LK Amos Award Nomination.”

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PRESENT AND PUBLISH: SYMPOSIUM OF EMERGING TECHNOLOGY TRENDS IN HIGHER EDUCATION [bs_row class=”row”]
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[bs_col class=”col-sm-8″] Deadline for abstracts, lightning rounds and panel discussions is Friday, Jan. 15.

The J. Willard Marriott Library is pleased to present the second “Symposium on Emerging Technology Trends in Higher Education” on Feb. 26, 2016. Drawing on the 2015 Horizon Report from the New Media Consortium, presenters will be discussing the intersection between teaching, research and technology in higher education. This is a unique opportunity for students to present and publish alongside distinguished faculty from the U. Abstracts for presentations (25 min.), lightning rounds (5-10 min.) and panel discussions (50 min.) are currently being accepted until Jan. 15, 2016. For more information, please visit tinyurl.com/freelunchsymposium or contact the event organizers, Anne Morrow (anne.morrow@utah.edu) and Adriana Parker (adriana.parker@utah.edu). [/bs_col]
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LAST DAY TO ADD WITHOUT PERMISSION
Sunday, Jan. 17 [bs_row class=”row”]
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[bs_col class=”col-sm-8″]Today is the last day to add without permission. Contact the Office of the Registrar at registrar.utah.edu or at 801-581-5808, with any questions. [/bs_col]
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MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. DAY HOLIDAY – NO SCHOOL
Monday, Jan. 18 [bs_row class=”row”]
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[bs_col class=”col-sm-8″] Martin Luther King Jr. Day is today. There will be no school. [/bs_col]
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CLINIC SERVICES AT THE SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY [bs_row class=”row”]
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[bs_col class=”col-sm-8″]The Ray and Tye Noorda Oral Health Sciences Building is home to a full-service community dental clinic featuring 62 dental operatories; an oral diagnosis suite with eight operatories and a Cone Beam CT machine for 3-D imaging; a pediatric dentistry suite with eight operatories including a private waiting room for children and an oral maxillofacial surgery suite with four private operatories.

The clinic offers a full range of services including:

• Oral health screening
• Periodontal treatment
• Comprehensive restorative care:
  • Fillings
  • Crowns
  • Bridges – fixed and removable appliances
  • Root canals
  • Implants
  • Cosmetic dentistry and teeth whitening
• Pediatric dentistry
• Geriatric dentistry
• Orthodontics (at our residency clinics)
• Oral surgery
• Special needs patients

All patient care is supervised by faculty who are licensed dentists in Utah. Service fees are as follows:

• Student dentists – 50 percent discounted
• Resident dentists – 30 percent discounted
• Faculty dentists – Full cost

Most insurance plans are accepted.

To schedule an initial screening/consultation call -801- 58-SMILE (7-6453) and visit dentistry.utah.edu for more information. [/bs_col]
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U DRIVE ELECTRIC DEADLINE EXTENDED [bs_row class=”row”]
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[bs_col class=”col-sm-8″] Another excuse to buy an electric car! 

U Drive Electric deadline has been extended into Jan. 31, 2016, due to popular demand. U community members now have a longer opportunity to purchase or lease a, clean, plug-in hybrid or zero tailpipe emissions eclectic vehicle at a discounted price — 5-20 percent off MSRP. With the New Year’s spirit in the air and the inversion season upon us, U Drive Electric hopes to inspire and to facilitate a new generation of electric car owners. To receive the most current information, visit udriveelectric.org. The University of Utah is regularly considering and implementing solutions to lessen its environmental impact and to improve conditions for the community and future generations. The University’s Sustainability Office in partnership with Utah Clean Energy, and with a generous grant from UCAIR has joined together to offer this incentive program. [/bs_col]
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ANNUAL NOTICE: PEER-TO-PEER FILE SHARING AND COPYRIGHT VIOLATION [bs_row class=”row”]
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[bs_col class=”col-sm-8″]Every year, as a result of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and the Higher Education Opportunity Act, The University of Utah distributes a notice about its policy regarding peer-to-peer file sharing and copyright violations. All students, faculty and staff should understand that it is a violation of federal law and university policy to share and/or distribute copyrighted materials without the permission of the copyright holder. Violators may be subject to civil and criminal prosecution under federal law, as well as personal sanctions specified in university policy.

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U YELLOWSTONE STUDY 56TH ON DISCOVER’S ‘100 TOP STORIES OF 2015’ [bs_row class=”row”]
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[bs_col class=”col-sm-8″] University of Utah seismologists discovered and made images of a reservoir of hot, partly molten rock 12 to 28 miles beneath the Yellowstone supervolcano, and it is 4.4 times larger than the shallower, long-known magma chamber.

The U study ranked 56th on Discover’s “100 top stories of 2015.”

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RSVP FOR LAW SCHOOL ‘ROCK STAR’ ERWIN CHEMERINSKY SPEECH AT THE U
Feb. 4, 2016 |5:30-7:30 p.m.
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He’s the closest thing the law school circuit has to a rock star. And now Erwin Chemerinsky is headed to the University of Utah, scheduled to speak Feb.4 as part of the 50th Annual Leary Lecture at the S.J. Quinney College of Law. Chemerinsky is a well-known professor at the University of California, Irvine School of Law. Previously, he taught at Duke Law School for four years, during which he won the Duke University Scholar-Teacher of the Year Award in 2006. He also taught for 21 years at the University of Southern California School of Law, UCLA School of Law and DePaul University College of Law. His areas of expertise are constitutional law, federal practice, civil rights and civil liberties, and appellate litigation. He is the author of eight books, including The Case Against the Supreme Court published in 2014, and more than 200 articles in top law reviews. He frequently argues cases before the nation’s highest courts, including the United States Supreme Court, and also serves as a commentator on legal issues for national and local media. He writes a weekly column for the Orange County Register, monthly columns for the ABA Journal and the Daily Journal, and frequent op-eds in newspapers across the country. In January 2014, National Jurist magazine named Chemerinsky as the most influential person in legal education in the United States. His lecture is expected to be a huge draw at the U for the legal community, where he’ll reflect on the last half century of constitutional law. He is available for media interviews prior to his visit. Those interested in attending can RSVP here.[/bs_col]
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