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Association News
Encouraging Education The U Alumni Association awards $400,000 annually in scholarships. By Cassie Taylor This academic year, the University of Utah Alumni Association will award more than $400,000 in...
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Looking at the Logo I just finished reading the “Heartbeat of the People” article in the [Fall 2012] Continuum, and the following comments/questions are stirring within me. I attended the U in the...
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Through the Years
Treasuring the Wasatch U alum and physician Howie Garber photographs the mountains to help preserve them. Howie Garber MD’80, an emergency room physician and award-winning nature photographer, has...
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Lessons of the Bones
Paleontologist and University of Utah alumna Lindsay Zanno spends much of her time out in the field prospecting for dinosaur bones, and this past summer took her to the Mussentuchit Flat area near...
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Campus Notebook
University of Utah Dedicates Honors Housing On September 21, the University of Utah dedicated the Donna Garff Marriott Honors Residential Scholars Community, the newest solution to the U’s growing need...
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Building to Foster Excellence
On Guardsman Way, just east of Rice-Eccles Stadium and across the street, construction workers have been laying brick and hanging drywall on a new Football and Sports Medicine Center at the University...
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A Monumental Tradition
The Block U of the University of Utah is said to be not only the first such symbol placed on a hillside by a university, but one of the largest. It has its origins in a class competition. In April...
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The Groucho Marxist
Here comes Sam Wilson, carrying a wild pig. He plops the pig, which is mustard-colored and plastic, on a platform in the center of his classroom. It is the beginning of the 2012 Fall Semester, and the...
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The Shifting Tide
Expecting a new baby girl in early December, Katina Anthony and her husband, Chris, were both excited and worried. Already the parents of a 2-year-old boy, the couple has no health insurance, and they...
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Stories Within Stories
Luise Poulton casually holds out the small, unassuming—even plain-looking—book. It lacks the exquisite line drawings, the delicate rice-paper pages, the elegant typeface, and even the literary...
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Exploring Rare Books Such a wonderful article [“Stories Within Stories,” Winter 2012-13]—very finely written. … Barbara Lynn Oleson Jeppson BS’64 Is there a reason that the staff are not wearing...
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Association News
Five Selected for 2013 Founders Day Awards Four outstanding graduates of the University of Utah and one honorary alumnus received 2013 Founders Day awards in February. Health care and public policy...
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The Imaginer
In the 1950s, young Ed Catmull loved Walt Disney animated films such as Pinocchio and Peter Pan. He dreamed of becoming an animator, and he filled up sketchbooks and created his own flipbooks. At Salt...
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The Innovator
During one summer in the mid-1960s, John Warnock toiled away at a tire store in Salt Lake City, recapping old tires with new tread. It was difficult work: Grind off the old tread, apply adhesive,...
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Pioneer in Sound
The first person to create a practical method of recording and playing digitized sound was the University of Utah’s own Thomas G. Stockham, Jr., an associate professor of electrical engineering and...
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The Impresario
Spacewar! is the silent movie of video games; it is the crank telephone, the biplane, the paper fan—every beginning that now seems laughably and sweetly from another era. In the mid-1960s, when he was...
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Through the Years: Ahead of the Game
Alan Kay The University of Utah has been a leader in personal computing since the phrase was coined. Many of the very foundations of modern computing were built by U alumni such as Alan Kay MS’68...
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Campus Notebook
Construction Update The University of Utah currently has 12 major construction projects under way. Web Exclusive Photo Gallery: University Offers Deferred Enrollment Option The...
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Game On
As kids growing up in Boston, Andrew Witts and his older brother Jason spent hours before a video screen, locked in fierce battle with armies of skeletons and zombies that were wreaking havoc over a...
View ArticleA Jazz Requiem for the Male of the Species
What you have offered me is bleak And white And sterile And cold. Marked only by the black scars of industry, Slavery and greed. What is offered now to me, the male of the species? What have you...
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