University of Utah President David W. Pershing and the Board of Trustees announced today that Princeton professor, foreign policy expert and work-life balance thought leader Anne-Marie Slaughter, will deliver the university’s general commencement address on Thursday, May 5, 2016. Slaughter became one of the country’s most talked about writers after she published an in-depth and […]

[bs_well size=”md”]The U Drive Electric deadline has been extended into Jan. 31, 2016, due to popular demand. To receive the most current information, visit udriveelectric.org. [/bs_well] The University of Utah is the first university in the country to sponsor a community-level electric vehicle purchase program that includes discounts on multiple makes and models. U Community Drive Electric offers […]

The University of Utah Special Topics Art Class led by  V. Kim Martinez will unveil and dedicate a 1500-square-foot-mural to Esperanza Elementary School, 4956 W. 3500 South, at 1:15 p.m. on Dec. 11. In attendance with Martinez and her students will be Esperanza principal, Eulogio Alejandre, the school board, parents and students. The mural, collaboratively […]

Religious freedom: It’s a topic that has received intense national attention in recent months, following the actions of Kentucky Court Clerk Kim Davis —who refused to issue marriage licenses to gay couples because of her religious beliefs. Davis spent five days in jail after ignoring a court order that she issue marriage licenses to all […]

Growing up in Kearns, Utah, Abby Dizon-Maughan always knew she wanted to be a lawyer. When the inevitable, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” question arose, a job in the legal field was always on the forefront of her mind. Her first experience in the legal field came when she turned […]

Jennifer Thompson-Cannino knew she’d identified the man who brutally raped her from a photo lineup in 1984. Then a 22-year-old college student, Thompson-Cannino awoke in her apartment when she heard a noise in her bedroom. Moments later, she was sexually assaulted. During the ordeal, she vowed to survive —and paid attention to her assailant’s features […]

University of Utah chemists devised a new way to detect chemical damage to DNA that sometimes leads to genetic mutations responsible for many diseases, including various cancers and neurological disorders. “We are one step closer to understanding the underlying chemistry that leads to genetic diseases,” says Cynthia Burrows, distinguished professor and chair of chemistry at […]

The University of Utah’s Department of Theatre presents Naomi Iizuka’s “Good Kids,” which explores the very public aftermath of a sex crime and its cover-up. Directed by College of Fine Arts Post MFA Fellow Julie Rada, the production runs Oct. 30-Nov. 8 in Studio 115 in the Performing Arts Building, 240 S. 1500 East. The […]

The animal brain is so complex, it would take a supercomputer and vast amounts of data to create a detailed 3-D model of the billions of neurons that power it. But computer scientists and a professor of ophthalmology at the University of Utah have developed software that maps out a monkey’s brain and more easily […]

Oct. 22, 2015 – Across the animal kingdom, males hoot and holler to attract females and ward off competing suitors. Now, a new study finds that male howler monkeys with deeper calls have smaller testicles – and vice versa, according to researchers from universities of Utah, Cambridge and Vienna and other institutions. In the cover […]