Author: Marcia C. Dibble
One More: Fussing Over the Fight Song
Its authorship is unclear. Its date of origin is murky. Its lyrics have been modified several times. Yet many of those who currently belt out “Utah Man” are fiercely loyal to “how it’s always been.” Turns out “always” isn’t necessarily such a long time. “Utah Man” became the University of Utah athletics “fight song” in […]
Read MoreThrough The Years: Short alum profiles and Class Notes
U alum Tim DeChristopher is the subject of an award-winning documentary film.
Read MoreThrough the Years: Ahead of the Game (computer science innovators)
Many of the foundations of modern computing were built by University of Utah alumni, and recent U grads are making their mark in the video-game industry.
Read MoreTivo-ing Heat and Cold
Engineering professor Kent Udell works with the elements to seek energy innovations.
Read MoreThrough the Years: Short alum profiles and Class Notes
Green Grads The University of Utah has educated dozens of “green grads” who have gone on to successful careers supporting environmental sustainability, both locally and nationally. On the University of Utah’s campus, Office of Sustainability co-founder Alexandra Parvaz BA’06 BS’06 MS’11 is now the office’s campus gardens coordinator and serves as the driving force behind […]
Read MoreEvolution of a Scientist
Anthropologist Alan Rogers’ book aims to convince skeptics that Darwin was right.
Read MoreThrough the Years: Short alum profiles and Class Notes
Former U.S. Ambassador John Price Recounts His Career In Memoir John Price BS’56, a successful Utah businessman and former international diplomat, has published the memoir When the White House Calls: From Immigrant Entrepreneur to U.S. Ambassador (University of Utah Press, June 2011). The memoir recounts his life story, beginning with his birth in Germany through […]
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Ruth A. Davis Strampe BS’38 was a member of the University of Utah’s pistol team while a student and to this day remains a crack shot. While target shooting during a recent visit to a guest ranch in California, she hit five out of seven small targets during her first time out. At West High […]
Read MoreAmazing Glass
The U’s scientific glassblower melds science and artistry into his work. Photos by Stephen Speckman Kevin Teaford learned what it could really mean to be a glassblower during an otherwise ordinary week in the early 1990s. At the time, Teaford was working for a glassworks in northern California that made a wide range of custom […]
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’60s Eugene García BS’68, vice president for education partnerships at Arizona State University, has been awarded an honorary doctoral degree from the Erikson Institute, one of the nation’s leading graduate schools in child development, and delivered its 2011 commencement address. García is one of the nation’s most eminent researchers in the teaching of language and […]
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The lobby of the Ogden [Utah] High School Athletic Complex has been dedicated in honor of Arnie Ferrin BS’66. Ferrin was a co-captain of the Ogden High basketball team in 1943 and led his teammates to the Region 1 championship that year. He went on to play for the University of Utah, where he was […]
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