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Students Design Virtual ID Badge to Combat Online Hackers

A student entrepreneurial team at the University of Utah believes it has come up with a winning business plan for a virtual ID badge that operates off of any mobile device. The team, calling itself EMRID Technologies, developed a product that could be used in place of other common electronic ID badges used by hospitals, defense companies or other firms where securing data is of the utmost importance. Read More

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February 06, 2012

Our Amorphophallus is Smaller

The famed “corpse flower” plant – known for its giant size, rotten-meat odor and phallic shape – has a new, smaller relative: A University of Utah botanist discovered a new species of Amorphophallus that is one-fourth as tall but just as stinky. Read More

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February 06, 2012

Business Students get Big Boost as they Start and Finish their Educational Experience

Business students at the University of Utah will get some much needed assistance on both ends of their educational experience. FJ Management, Inc., formerly known as Flying J Inc., today announced that it has donated $3.5 million to be divided between the U’s David Eccles School of Business and the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University. Read More

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February 06, 2012

Why Bad Immunity Genes Survive

University of Utah biologists found new evidence why mice, people and other vertebrate animals carry thousands of varieties of genes to make immune-system proteins named MHCs – even though some of those genes make us susceptible to infections and to autoimmune diseases. Read More

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February 02, 2012

Marriott Library to Showcase Treasures Documenting the History of Electric Power

The University of Utah’s J. Willard Marriott Library today unveiled its new historic collections of photographs and manuscripts chronicling the first 100 years of what is now Rocky Mountain Power. Read More