The Daily Utah Chronicle

Middle Eastern films to promote awareness

By By Paige Fieldsted | January 24, 2007

The U Middle East Center and the Utah Museum of Fine Arts are sponsoring a series of films from the Middle East in hopes of educating U students and faculty about Middle-Eastern culture. "Given the fact that we have political, economical and emotional involvement in that part of the world, it is obvious why it is important to learn about the Middle East," said Laurence Loeb, professor of anthropology.

First books

By By Paige Fieldsted | January 18, 2007

For many low-income elementary school students, this Christmas meant much more than usual, because first, second and third graders from Mountain View, Parkview and Lincoln elementary schools received their very own books to take home. One thousand, six hundred books were distributed to 800 students just before Christmas as part of the 5,000 books that were donated by First Book and Cheerios' "Spoonfuls of Stories.

Student leadership

By By Paige Fieldsted | January 17, 2007

Becoming a student leader is one way for students to get involved in the campus community and overcome the U's commuter-campus feel. Housing and Residential Education is currently accepting applications for resident advisers (RAs) for the 2007-2008 school year.

The Art of Teaching

By By Paige Fieldsted | January 11, 2007

In 1991, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts formed the Partners in Education Program, "In order to build professional development for teachers," said Barbra Shepard, director of National Partnerships at the Kennedy Center. And this year, the Kennedy Center selected 14 new teams to join the 92 teams already participating in the program.

Tracking the storm

By By Paige Fieldsted | January 11, 2007

Deep in the Gulf of Mexico, a low-pressure storm system that formed fewer than 24 hours ago picked up speed and became Tropical Storm Gert. A burst of rising air, weak wind shear and ocean surface temperature could all be reasons for Tropical Storm Gert's rapid growth, according to Zhaoxia Pu, assistant professor of meteorology at the U.

Tracking the storm

By By Paige Fieldsted | January 10, 2007

Deep in the Gulf of Mexico, a low-pressure storm system that formed fewer than 24 hours ago picked up speed and became Tropical Storm Gert. A burst of rising air, weak wind shear and ocean surface temperature could all be reasons for Tropical Storm Gert's rapid growth, according to Zhaoxia Pu, assistant professor of meteorology at the U.

Sustainable studies

By By Paige Fieldsted | January 7, 2007

A new course being offered this spring will allow U students to develop and implement project designs to help make a new geology and geophysics building more sustainable. "We are looking for the involvement of students from across the entire campus, since sustainability is a concern that affects all disciplines," said William Johnson, associate professor of geosciences.

Robots and Frisbee golf

By By Paige Fieldsted | December 7, 2006

Robots will rescue flood-stranded eggs, machines will play Frisbee golf and cougars will be catapulted across the ballroom at Mechanical Engineering Research Day today in the Union Ballroom. Robots built by mechanical engineering students will rescue eggs stranded by a "hurr-EGG-cane" and transport them to egg-sized hospital beds.

Building careers

By By Paige Fieldsted | December 6, 2006

It is not uncommon for Matthew Hintze and Michael Dolan to spend 12 to 18 hours a day in a design studio, but all their hard work has finally paid off. Hintze and Dolan, both second-year graduate students in the architecture program, recently placed first and second, respectively, at the Metal Construction Association's ninth annual student competition.

Mightier than the sword

By By Paige Fieldsted | December 4, 2006

Since Katharine Coles was a little girl, she knew she wanted to be a poet--and a fireman. While nothing ever became of the latter, she has been a poet for nearly her entire life. Coles started writing poetry at the age of seven. While attending Rowland Hall St.