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U Students’ Community Service Projects Have Wide Reach

During this year’s commencement on Friday, May 4, 12 service-learning scholars will graduate after they committed more than 5,000 hours to service during as undergraduates at the University of Utah. Read More

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U of U Leader Listed in Utah Business Magazine’s “30 Women to Watch”

Joyce Ogburn, Dean of the J. Willard Marriott Library and University Librarian for the University of Utah, to be included in Utah Business’s “30 Women to Watch” listing. Read More

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U Professors Win Innovation and Impact Award

What do neuronal communication devices, insect-inspired body suits that give humans super strength, and a multi-media performance laboratory to encourage intimate experiences through dance, media and technology have in common? Not much, except that each was invented by University of Utah (the U) professors Florian Solzbacher, Stephen Jacobsen and Ellen Bromberg, winners of this year’s Distinguished Innovation and Impact Award (DIIA). The U presents these annual awards at commencement to recognize and honor faculty whose research has made a positive impact on the world. Read More

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U Grows to Satisfy Growing Market in Digital Media

The University of Utah puts its money on red. In the case of video game design, computer animation and digital art, it has not been a gamble, but an investment that is already paying dividends to the school and the state of Utah. Read More

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A Middle-Ear Microphone

Cochlear implants have restored basic hearing to some 220,000 deaf people, yet a microphone and related electronics must be worn outside the head, raising reliability issues, preventing patients from swimming and creating social stigma. Read More