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How Historical Inequities Shape the Course of Pandemics

WEBWe can never view pandemics as purely biological events. While it is true that microbes are discrete organisms, replicating and mutating through natural processes …

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College of Humanities

WEBThe humanities teach us to question the world around us in order to better understand our place within it. In the humanities, we seek to understand the nuances of …

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Tracking Perceptions of COVID Messaging

WEBCommunication has been a significant challenge during the COVID-19 outbreak. The pandemic arose quickly and has stretched on for months, which has created a …

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Research Resources

WEBResearcher Resources and Trainings . U’s Research Education(RED) offers self-paced and live online classes for research development, research mentoring, research …

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Academic Advisors for Undergraduate Students

WEBCommunication. Emphases in Strategic Communication, Journalism, CommSHER (Science, Health, Environmental, and Risk Communication), and …

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Afrofuturism and the Potential for Hope

WEBcolor. Cultural critic Kodwo Eshun warns that the future has already been commoditized based on mathematical and economic models that may not take into account the cultural …

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Your Guide to the Strange World of

WEBConspiracy theories about COVID-19 abound. There are the 5G variety. These purport in one way or another to attribute the pandemic to the roll out of 5G cell towers—either that …

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University of Utah Researchers Have a Million-dollar Idea

WEBA University of Utah team, led by Kerry Kelly, associate professor of chemical engineering in the U’s John and Marcia Price College of Engineering, has been researching and …

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U philosopher’s new book challenges the hype surrounding …

WEBT. he idea of “personalized medicine,” health care tailored to individuals’ genetics, has been oversold at the expense of less costly, yet more effective strategies …

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What’s the ideal time to get pregnant

WEBThe U.S. Census just released the latest population estimate and one story persists – fertility rates are down. At the moment, one child is born every eight seconds in the U.S. …

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The Human Experience Can’t be Found in a Lab

WEBThis week, James Tabery, professor of philosophy at the University of Utah, made international news with his article, “Victims of Eugenic Sterilisation in Utah,” …

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Intersection of Disability and Environmental Justice

WEBOn November 14th, the Digital Matters Lab at the J. Willard Marriott Library will host “Embodied Ecologies,” a collaborative exhibition focused on disability, …

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Healing and Transformation During the 2020 Pandemic

WEBHealing and Transformation During the 2020 Pandemic. By Dave Derezotes. PROFESSOR OF SOCIAL WORK DIRECTOR OF PEACE & CONFLICT STUDIES As our Religious …

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Professor Jake Jensen Wins NCA Golden

WEBA health communication article by Professor Jakob Jensen will be awarded the Golden Anniversary Monograph Award from NCA, which marks the second consecutive year he …

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What is Your Swab Telling You:

WEBAfter being diagnosed with a hereditary cancer syndrome in graduate school, Madison Kilbride, assistant professor in philosophy at the University of Utah, …

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Survivors of Utah’s Eugenic Sterilization Program

WEB“For the first time, we have a sense of the human scale of the eugenic assault here in Utah, as well as the lasting legacy of that assault in the form of survivors still living in 2023,” …

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Recovering Identities of Black Latter-Day Saints

WEBIn a letter read to her congregation in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1982, Freda Lucretia Magee Beaulieu described July 21, 1978, as the happiest day of …

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