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Former ASUU vice president nominated to regents
U student Basim Motiwala wants to serve college students in Utah. And he has a one-in-three chance of doing just that. The Utah Council of Student Body Presidents nominated Motiwala in April as one of three candidates to sit on the Utah State Board of Regents, the state's higher education policy committee.…
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U history professor awarded Rosenblatt Prize
When Robert Goldberg was called into President Michael Young's office in the spring of 2007, he thought Young wanted to discuss the World Leaders Lecture Forum the Tanner Humanities Center organized. "I brought my list of names for who would be good speakers at the lecture, set them down on his desk and began talking," said Goldberg, director of the Tanner Humanities Center and a history professor.…
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$15 million donated for new natural history museum
Construction on a new Utah Museum of Natural History will begin this summer thanks to a $15 million donation from Rio Tinto, the parent company of Kennecott Copper. "We are thrilled to share this exciting contribution to the continuing, long relationship with the museum and the U," said Bret Clayton, the chief executive of Rio Tinto.…
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U tightens medical privacy policies
Officials in several U health science facilities are working to toughen enforcement of privacy policies and procedures after an audit in October 2007 revealed several key vulnerabilities in employees' ability to protect patient information. For two months in late 2007, four auditors in the U Internal Audit Department monitored strengths and weaknesses in protecting private patient information at different locations in the University Hospital, the Huntsman Cancer Hospital, the Huntsman Cancer Institute, the Moran Eye Center and the Orthopaedic Center.…
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U student to study in Australia on Fulbright scholarship
When Lynnette Averill was 3 years old, her father, a Marine Corps veteran of the Vietnam War, took his life because of post-traumatic stress disorder. Now as a doctorate student in counseling psychology at the U, Averill will take her research on PTSD in military veterans to Australia on a $30,000 Fulbright Scholarship to consider the relationship between the disorder and substance use.…
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Animal rights protesters arrested
Three animal rights protesters were arrested April 20 for picketing outside a U researcher's home--a violation of a new Salt Lake City ordinance requiring demonstrators to stay 100 feet away from a private residence. This is the first violation of the new ordinance.…
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U pathology professor remembered
James Tsai Yuan Wu, a pathology professor at the U, died after spending 32 years researching tumor markers--the protein levels of cancer patients in remission that allow doctors to judge whether the cancer has returned. Wu traveled to Taiwan in March to work at the Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, where he ran a research lab and consulted with hospital personnel.…
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Women gather to give cancer patients hope
300 wellness bags donated to Huntsman Cancer Institute
Lindsey Park struggled to find the right words to put on a greeting card for a female cancer patient as she remembered her uncle and co-worker's battles with the disease. Park, a former U nursing student, joined approximately 100 women who volunteered to create wellness bags for females battling cancer at the Huntsman Cancer Institute on May 8.…
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New ASUU leadership inaugurated
When Jon Hayes first set foot on the U campus five years ago for a high school science day, he wasn't sure what the gigantic, unfamiliar place would have in store for him. Patrick Reimherr said that when he first arrived at the U as a freshman, he too did not feel like he had a place to belong--a spot in the U to call home.…
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