UTA will ring in the new year by tracking commuters with the recently installed tap pads on buses and at TRAX and FrontRunner stations.

Rebecca Beauregard has traded in the comforts of her life in Salt Lake City to serve HIV patients in Ethiopia. Although she realizes her impact might be small, she hopes to make a difference.

With the help of four surgeons from the U Transplant Center, the University Medical Center in Las Vegas will be able to maintain its transplant program until it is reviewed again by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in June 2009.

About 30 students watched as Julia Kornfield, a chemical engineering professor from the California Institute of Technology, discussed a new breakthrough in eye surgery that will restore full vision without multiple surgeries.

Finding a replacement tantamount to former Director Craig Forster will be nearly impossible, said the U's Office of Sustainability staff and administrators, but until then, students, faculty and staff have pulled together to fill in the gaps.

Instead of living in fear of a possible car crash, Curry, a U accounting alumnus who completed his medical residency at the U Hospital, helped develop a car key that shuts down cell phone use while the key is in the ignition.

The U stepped up to remodel the Park Building in Presidents' Circle when pieces began falling onto the sidewalk, but the historic building isn't the only one that needs fixing.

Patients at the Montezuma Creek Dental Clinic are rarely referred elsewhere because it is the only dental clinic around, giving graduates in the U's Dental Residency Program the perfect place to refine their skills.

Many international Canadians in Toronto were in favor of Obama to win the American election.

The human genetics department at the U developed five kiosks that will broadcast information about Capecchi's prize-winning research, published papers and future research in an interactive setting.