University of Utah News

Leaders of a national atheist group say the best spot to find a nonbeliever is in a place of faith.

A satellite image of the 2011 Las Conchas Fire in New Mexico shows the burned areas in magenta and the unburned areas in green.

Gov. Gary Herbert proclaimed his recent trade mission to Mexico a success after three Utah-based companies used the tour to release plans to expand operations there.

SALT LAKE CITY)-The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology has announced that University of Utah researcher Wolfgang Baehr, Ph.D., will receive the Proctor Medal -considered to be the highest honor in the world awarded to scientists working in vision research.

The University of Utah Lyric Opera Ensemble presents "Hansel and Gretel." Robert Baldwin conducts the Utah Philharmonia and singers in this double-cast production of Engelbert Humperdinck's grand score, which includes favorite tunes such as the "Evening Prayer."

Utah is heating up and drying out right now, which means we're on the verge of wildfires in many parts of the state that are not covered by high-elevation snowpack.

Good universities are crucial to a nation's advancement, and this is especially true in the world's least developed countries.

How to distill the lessons of life, love, death and dying, learned in the most intimate way, into a dinner speech? That is Peggy Battin's challenge as she prepares her address for next week's 30th anniversary celebration of the Center for Practical Bioethics in Kansas City.

A new study showing a 30-year trend of worsening wildfires in the western United States was led by Philip Dennison, a geographer at the University of Utah.

A magnitude-4.9 earthquake in central Idaho on Saturday was the biggest of three weeks of small to moderate temblors that have unnerved residents in this remote region of the Northwest.

For most of us, we associate the arrival of Easter with the start of Spring . Easter flowers, cute chocolate cream-filled bunnies, and children running around a park engaged in an Easter egg hunt.

Cold back East and warmth out West is a jet stream pattern that has been in place for 4,000 years, according to new research A new study has found that the wavy jet stream pattern that tends to bring warm winter weather to the U.S. West and cold weather to the East was set in place 4,000 years ago.

Friday, April 18, is Record Store Day, meaning that every vinylphile in the state should be rushing to a local record shop to grab some great music.

Six percent of patients with colorectal cancer have interval cancers, which develop within six to 60 months of colonoscopy, according to a study published in the April issue of Gastroenterology .

Insights: the UKSG journal , Vol. 26, No. 3. , pp. 267-271, doi:10.1629/2048-7754.77 To insert individual citation into a bibliography in a word-processor, select your preferred citation style below and drag-and-drop it into the document.

Twenty-one earthquakes have hit the area near the small Idaho town of Challis since March 24th.

The University of Utah Campus Store has been burglarized three times in the last month, and officials are asking for the public's help in locating the thief.

The Salt Lake Tribune) American Atheists President David Silverman speaks to atheists of Utah, ex-Mormons and disaffected, disbelieving Latter-day Saints march around Temple Square after the morning session of the 184th Annual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Sunday April 6, 2014.

As the 12-year-old South Jordan girl watched her first lunar eclipse early Tuesday morning, she also peered through telescopes for up-close views of planets such as Jupiter and Mars.

SALT LAKE CITY, April 16, 2014 - Last winter's curvy jet stream pattern brought mild temperatures to western North America and harsh cold to the East.