Thanks to a $4 million gift from the Spencer F. and Cleone P. Eccles Family Foundation, the University of Utah Alumni Association is well on its way to realizing a much-anticipated transformation of its 36-year-old Alumni House into a more spacious, multi-functional facility. The renovation will nearly double the size of the building and triple […]
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$4 Million Gift from Spencer F. and Cleone P. Eccles family jump starts final phase of U Alumni House renovation campaign
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
‘The Suzan-Lori Parks Show’
Part lecture, part reading, part sing-a-long and part consciousness-raising, “The Suzan-Lori Parks Show” comes to the University of Utah’s Kingsbury Hall on Wednesday, Feb. 24 at 6 p.m. Playwright and Pulitzer prize-winning dramatist, Suzan-Lori Parks will deliver the 2016 David P. Gardner Lecture in the Humanities and Fine Arts and serve as the 2016 Tanner […]
Ahead of the game
The University of Utah’s No.1- ranked video game program, Entertainment Arts & Engineering (EAE), and the David Eccles School of Business announce the creation of the nation’s first dual master’s degree combining a Master of Business Administration with a Master in EAE in game development. This unique degree for graduate students is designed to prepare […]
Dalai Lama reschedules visit to the U
The University of Utah and the Utah Tibet Foundation are pleased to announce that His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet will speak at the University of Utah Huntsman Center, 1825 S. Campus Drive, Tuesday, June 21, at 1:30 p.m. The Dalai Lama was scheduled to visit the U in October 2015 but canceled […]
Mommy and me
Poverty, lack of education and exposure to violence can undeniably impact a child’s life trajectory significantly. But how can a mother’s exposure and potentially depressive reactions to these stressors impact a child before his/her life even begins? A depressed mother’s response to stress can pass through the placenta to negatively impact the fetus in ways […]
New lens ready for its close-up
Imagine digital cameras or smartphones without the bulky lenses or eyeglasses with lenses that are paper thin. Researchers have always thought that flat, ultrathin optical lenses for cameras or other devices were impossible because of the way all the colors of light must bend through them. Consequently, photographers have had to put up with more […]