University of Utah News

It has been less than 24 hours since Julie Harris had her right knee replaced, and the University of Utah Hospital patient is walking the recovery ward halls.

Commuters drive near the University of Utah in a snow storm Thursday, Jan. 10, 2013.

Re Cherilyn Eager's op-ed , "Slide toward socialized medicine began with Medicare," Opinion, Nov. 23, and her "The sky is falling" fear of socialized medicine: I offer another point of view.

Benjamin Britten was on a Swedish cargo ship, crossing the U-boat-infested Atlantic, when he wrote most of "A Ceremony of Carols," a perennial holiday favorite for choral music enthusiasts.

The weather outside is frightful, but for a few hours Thursday evening at the University of Utah it wasn't particularly delightful indoors either.

University of Utah student Alice Ma wraps a present for newly arrived refugee children at Catholic Community Services Refugee Foster Care in Salt Lake City Friday, Dec. 6, 2013.

The university in 1981 made Gee its 19th president, when he was just 36. On Friday, following approval from the Higher Education Policy Commission, it named him interim president for a term that will start in January.

University of Utah and German biologists discovered how nerve cells recycle tiny bubbles or "vesicles" that send chemical nerve signals from one cell to the next.

She was born July 18, 1914, in Provo, Utah, the eldest child of Dr. Charles Elmer Barrett and Odessa Heninger Barrett.

The Navajo tradition of art and culture is one rich in visual form and symbolic meaning.

The successful candidate will have the opportunity to build on a long history of strategic and sustained technological innovations, and to coordinate their operations and assessment.

Even though the Ute Indian tribe has given the University of Utah approval to use the Ute name and maintains it wants to continue its relationship with the university, pressure is building for the school to drop the name and its use of the drum and feather logo.

Editor at Defense & Aerospace Week -- Current study results on Health and Medicine have been published.

Lauren Berger, known as the "Intern Queen," will offer college students advice about how to make the most of internship opportunities.

SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 4, 2013 -University of Utah and German biologists discovered how nerve cells recycle tiny bubbles or "vesicles" that send chemical nerve signals from one cell to the next.

The agreement enables the University's researchers and clinicians to use Opal on a cost-per-genome basis.

OAKLAND, Calif. & SALT LAKE CITY -- -- Omicia, Inc., has announced a partnership with the University of Utah's Utah Genome Project.

The eighth Annual fundraiser for the Padma Organization will be held this Friday, Dec. 6, at Fuego Bistro and Pizzeria, 2001 Sidewinder Dr. from 7 p.m. until 9 p.m. The organization was begun by Luke Hanley a Park City High School graduate.

Tooele County has a new department and a new face to manage it.Isaac Astill came back to Tooele from the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Miss., to direct the new Tooele County Facilities Management Department.The new department is an amalgamation of the county's former parks and recreation, and building maintenance departments, according to ... (more)

Memo to Ute Tribe: Be careful what you wish for regarding your demands for more compensation from the University of Utah for using the Utes name and symbols as its mascot and logo .