Past climate change: a warning for the future?

June 17, 2019

A new study of climate changes and their effects on past societies offers a sobering glimpse of social upheavals that might happen in the future. The prehistoric groups studied lived in the Amazon Basin of South America hundreds of years ago, before European contact, but the disruptions that occurred may carry lessons for our time, […]



New Center at U College of Social Work to Focus on Migration, Refugee Integration

September 26, 2016

A newly launched research center at the University of Utah’s College of Social Work aims to advance the understanding and practice of effective integration of new Americans. The Center for Research on Migration & Refugee Integration is the first academic center west of the Mississippi River focused on community integration of immigrants and refugees. It […]



U lecture focuses on Utah’s role in aiding and resettling refugees

March 7, 2016

The University of Utah’s 65th Frederick W. Reynolds Lecture, focused on education and health care concerns for refugees, will take place March 10, 6-8:30 p.m., in the Libby Gardner Concert Hall, 1375 Presidents Circle on the University of Utah campus, and is free and open to the public. Established in 1936, the Reynolds Lecture was […]