Over the years, Professor Marianna DiPaolo from the Anthropology Department at the University of Utah has worked with young people in the Shoshoni. She was involved with the Youth Apprenticeship Program to encourage youth to pursue higher education....
Award season is upon us and we’ve been thrilled to see the honors received by Press publications. We are especially pleased to announce that Leonard Arrington and the Writing of Mormon History by Gregory A. Prince was awarded the Evans Biography Award from the Mountain...
The Special Collections Department has recently received a wonderful contribution of papers, scrapbooks, photographs, letters, and ephemera from the Rosenblatt family....
The first edition of this bull was printed by Melchior Lotter in 1522. Martin Luther (1483-1546) was excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church on January 3, 1521. On April 15, Maundy Thursday, Pope Leo X published the bull “Consueverunt Romani Pontifices,” in which Luther’s name...
As leaders of the University of Utah, we work daily to facilitate the intellectual development of all campus members and help our students, staff, and faculty reach for their professional goals. Over the past months, our campus has experienced several threats to our learning environment that...
Nuclear weapons testing – something we hear about often in the news today. The image of a nuclear detonation producing a devastating blast and the deadly mushroom cloud souring high into the atmosphere immediately floods our minds. What we expect to see only in movies...
“She noticed that the girls and boys in the books were not altogether like the girls and boys who played with her in the Square and came to tea with her. The children in the books were wonderfully brave and clever; and when they were...
The Map of the Week for October 16th demonstrates uses for the time-animation capabilities of ArcGIS by chronologically depicting the locations of all nuclear weapons tests conducted at the Nevada Test Site and how they can be presented through a video format. #MapMonday Visualizing Nuclear Weapons...
It that time of the year! Where everything adds a nuance of Pumpkin Spice and gets a little spookier...
“Across the distance there comes a change. The horizon is melted away; the mountains are all blurred. Distant chains appear to part and to become peaked islands. The sky seems water; the water, sky. Soon substance and shadow are indistinguishable. In plainer words, it is...