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Ancient Viral Invaders in Our DNA Help Fight Today’s Infections

About eight percent of our DNA is viral in origin: remnants of ancient battles between infectious viruses and our ancestors. These so-called endogenous viruses are often perceived as a mere oddity with no clear biological significance. But a new study by scientists at the University of Utah School of Medicine shows that evolution has repurposed […]

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Authors to discuss Yellowstone and the national parks

In the centennial year of the National Park Service, the University of Utah Environmental Humanities graduate program hosts authors David Quammen and Terry Tempest Williams in a discussion about the national parks’ past and future, entitled “Yellowstone: Paradox of the Cultivated Wild.” The event will be held March 9, 2016 at 7 p.m. in the […]

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Pulitzer Prize-winning women’s historian to speak at U’s Marriott Library

Pulitzer Prize-winning Harvard history professor and author Laurel Thatcher Ulrich will speak at the University of Utah’s J. Willard Marriott Library on March 10 at 7 p.m. Ulrich, author of the noted “Well-behaved Women Seldom Make History” and several other award-winning publications, will speak on “Beyond Letters and Diaries: Unexpected Sources in Women’s History.” When […]

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Amnesty International spokesperson, actress Nazanin Boniadi to speak at U

Nazanin Boniadi, actress, human rights activist and Amnesty International spokesperson, will speak at the U’s Barbara L. & Norman C. Tanner Center for Nonviolent Human Rights Advocacy in a talk titled “Breaking Barriers for Women and Girls” on March 7 at 4 p.m. in the University of Utah’s Union Saltair Room. The event is free […]

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White House Highlights University of Utah-led Project to Help Patients with Rare, Untreatable Diseases at Precision Medicine Summit

A University of Utah-led initiative to help people with rare and untreatable diseases was highlighted by the White House at the Precision Medicine Initiative Summit today. Spearheaded by a University of Utah computer scientist whose son has a rare disease, the Patient Empowered Precision Medicine Alliance (PEPMA) joins researchers from the University of Utah College […]

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U celebrates distinguished and honorary alumni at Founders Day banquet

To commemorate the founding of the University of Utah on Feb. 28, 1850, the U Alumni Association will celebrate four outstanding alumni and one honorary alumnus at the annual Founders Day banquet, Thursday, March 3, at the Little America Hotel, beginning with a reception at 6 p.m. and dinner at 7p.m. This year’s Distinguished Alumnus/a […]

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U dance departments to become first School of Dance in Intermountain Region

The University of Utah College of Fine Arts is pleased to announce the formation of the School of Dance, beginning July 1, 2016. Housed under this new administrative structure, the individual disciplines of ballet and modern dance will continue their long, esteemed legacies, with expanded opportunities and collaborations possible. This school will be the first […]

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Priest who founded Homeboy Industries to help former gangsters to speak at U

Ten years ago, Irene Ota listened when a group of students came to her with a common frustration. “My classmates just don’t get it,” Ota, diversity coordinator and instructor at the University of Utah College of Social Work, recalls some students saying. They felt some of their peers lacked understanding when it came to issues […]

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