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The University of Utah Board of Trustees today announced that Kristen Ries, an infectious diseases treatment expert and professor emerita, will receive an honorary doctoral degree at the 2020 cam...

https://unews.utah.edu/kristen-ries-leader-in-hiv-aids-treatment-and-professor-emerita-to-receive-honorary-degree-at-2020-commencement/

Jimmy L. Turner has accepted the offer to serve as executive director of Red Butte Garden at the University of Utah, effective March 23, 2020. Turner replaces Gregory Lee who will retire from the...

https://unews.utah.edu/red-butte-garden-names-jimmy-l-turner-as-new-executive-director/

The Carnegie Foundation has selected the University of Utah as a recipient of the 2020 Carnegie Community Engagement Classification endorsement, a measure of commitment to community engagement. T...

https://unews.utah.edu/university-of-utah-receives-2020-community-engagement-classification/

The University of Utah has nine Fulbright semifinalists this year, equaling last year’s record number. This year the U has seven undergraduate students and two doctoral students, including five...

https://unews.utah.edu/2020-21-fulbright-awards/

University of Utah Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs Dan Reed announced Monday that Kerry Case has accepted an offer to serve as the U’s chief sustainability officer. Case is currently...

https://unews.utah.edu/university-of-utah-announces-new-chief-sustainability-officer/

The University of Utah announced Thursday that Marlon C. Lynch will serve as the university’s first chief safety officer. Lynch, currently senior vice president for campus services and safety a...

https://unews.utah.edu/first-chief-safety-officer/

University of Utah Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs Dan Reed announced that Jason Cryan has accepted the offer to serve as executive director of the Natural History Museum of Utah effec...

https://unews.utah.edu/new-museum-director-selected/

University of Utah professors John S. Parkinson of the School of Biological Sciences and Marc D. Porter of the Departments of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering are among the 443 newly elected fe...

https://unews.utah.edu/2019-aaas-fellows/

The University of Utah, Utah Domestic Violence Coalition and more than 10 campus and community partners have received a $300,000 grant to develop better coordination of services and comprehensive...

https://unews.utah.edu/university-of-utah-receives-grant-from-office-on-violence-against-women-to-facilitate-partnership-with-utah-domestic-violence-coalition-and-other-community-entities/

The University of Utah will honor 11 Utah veterans at its 22nd annual Veterans Day Commemoration Ceremony, Monday, Nov. 11, 2019, in the A. Ray Olpin Union Building ballroom. The annual trib...

https://unews.utah.edu/u-honors-11-vets-with-week-of-events/