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La Turner’s Quarantine Book Recommendations

By Maddy La Turner April 6, 2020

  So: The closest thing to jeans you’ve worn in three weeks is blue sweatpants, and you’ve run out of quarantine snacks twice now. Maybe you’ve already binge-watched “Tiger King,” participated...

Churchill Scholarship recipient, Cameron Owen (Courtesy of Cameron Owen. Photo Credit: Dave Titensor/University of Utah)

U Student Awarded Prestigious Churchill Scholarship

By Mandi Johansen February 18, 2019

  Cameron Owen, from Boise, Idaho, is a senior studying chemistry and physics with a minor in mathematics and is the fourth consecutive University of Utah student to be awarded the Churchill Scholarship...

(Photo by M Rencher | The Daily Utah Chronicle)

AAAS Nominates Two U of U Professors

By Connor Applegate December 3, 2018

  University of Utah professors Shelley Minteer and Glenn Prestwich were recognized by their peers as 2018 Fellows for the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in an announcement...

(Photo by Chris Samuels)

Small Explosion Evacuates Chemistry Building

April 16, 2015

When the explosion went off, the first thing Shantel Leithead saw was the walls quivering. The second thing was smoke. Leithead, a senior, was sitting in a biochemistry class in the Henry Eyring Building...

(Kiffer Creveling)

U Chemistry Festival Makes Science a Hands-On Experience

March 29, 2015

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Last Saturday, there was only one place to see mini explosions and nitrogen ice cream: the U’s second annual Chemistry Festival, hosted by the student chapter of...

(Photo Courtesy of the U Department of Chemistry)

U Research Team Develops New Antibiotics

By Carolyn Webber January 30, 2015

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]   As new illnesses and bacteria continue to develop, so should the antibiotics to beat them. Yet big pharmaceutical companies often leave the research to universities,...

(Photo by Chris Samuels)

U Lecturer Tells Students to Be Wary of Sugar in Food Industry

November 10, 2014

  On Thursday, the U hosted Robert Lustig, a professor from University of California, San Francisco, to speak about how the American diet is negatively affecting our health, our wallets and our brain...

(Photo Courtesy of the Us Chapter of American Chemical Society)

ACS Club Combining Chemistry and Community

October 6, 2014

  There’s only one place at the U where someone can put liquid nitrogen into a trash can full of 1,000 ping pong balls and watch it explode: The American Chemical Society. Started by transfer students...

U group mystifies Utah youth with science

April 15, 2013

If you give a kid an Alka-Seltzer and water, they will probably give you a bubbling mess. If you give a chemistry student the same equipment, they will give you a bottle rocket. A group of U students...

U student researches impact of perspective

March 21, 2013

Annika Pecchia-Bekkum is anything but a traditional student. After graduating with a bachelor’s degree in English before the age of 18, she is now completing her second degree in chemistry and is on...

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