Scientists have evidence that the massive meteor that turned the night sky into day for two seconds Wednesday night might have exploded in the atmosphere above the reputed Area 52—an extremely dangerous, mysterious patch of Utah desert.
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Venkatraman “Venki” Ramakrishnan honored the work that started at the U and might one day turn the tide in the war against infections as part of the Benning Society Lecture Series on Wednesday night.
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With a 9 percent budget cut in place this year and the possibility of an additional 17 percent cut next year, some at the U are worried whether the school can cope with the loss in funding.
Just to have a chance to interact with strange birds, students endured the shrill squawking of a falcon’s song competing with a recording of John Denver’s “Eagle and the Hawk.”
Although it will not directly affect research funding, further budget cuts will impair the U’s ability to keep faculty to do research, said Paul Brinkman, vice president of academic affairs.
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About 20 people with signs declaring the U to be “Animal Hell” gathered outside of the Park Building to protest alleged animal rights violations by U researchers.
A 63-year-old female research professor, whose identity has not been released, fell through the rear doors of a U campus shuttle when it took a hard turn at the intersection of North Campus Drive and Mario Capecchi Drive, according to the U Police Department.
With a sweeping health care reform bill awaiting debate and a vote in the Senate, members of Utah’s medical and nonprofit communities gathered at the Hinckley Institute of Politics on Wednesday to discuss the system’s flaws and debate the pending reform bill.
Amid the confusion and worry sparked by the federal government’s new suggestion that women shouldn’t start getting checked for breast cancer until 10 years later than originally proposed, the Huntsman Cancer Institute is holding steady to the traditional standard.
If one were to ask the employees of Layton Construction what kind of a person the founder, U alumnus Alan W. Layton, was, they’d all likely answer the same way.
I think this is just a really sad situation. Here she is a researcher, looking for a better opportunity here and is killed. This of her family back in China who has absolutely no idea what has happened, and probably won't for a few more days or even a week. It's a freak accident, and I don't think there is anyone to blame. I do believe that our shuttles need to looked into, and maybe should invest in safer shuttles. I myself while trying the steady myself in the shuttle standing up and stumbling a bit too. I think others can agree to that as well.