U of U Pediatricians Selected for the National Innovation Advisors Program To Improve Patient Care, Reduce Costs

Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) has awarded two grants to the John A. Moran Eye Center (JMEC) at the University of Utah to support research into the causes, treatment and prevention of blinding diseases. Gregory Hageman, Ph.D. has been granted a $150,000 Senior Scientific Investigator Award, and the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences has been granted $100,000, to be directed by department Chairman Randall J Olson, M.D., CEO of the JMEC. To date, RPB has awarded grants totaling $4,765,300 to the University of Utah. Read More

Students at the University of Utah’s David Eccles School of Business are learning first-hand how to improve the bottom line of company Web sites by acting as actual consultants—something that translates directly into a valuable tool to land jobs upon completion of their degrees. Read More

During the last century, a branch of geometry known as topology became a major focus of mathematicians and physicists. Topologists study what properties of objects and shapes remain the same even when they are stretched and distorted. For instance, a square can be “squeezed” into a circle, but not into a perfectly straight line or a sphere. Read More

Let the games begin! Believe it or not, it’s been 10 years since Salt Lake City hosted the Winter Olympic Games. The Utah Ski Archives, part of the Special Collections Department at the J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah, will be hosting the Olympic Experience Exhibition February 1-29 in the George S. Eccles Reading Room on level 4 of the library. Read More